I wanted to write a Greasemonkey script to modify all mailto: links on a page, but to do that, I have to find them first. Here’s my first attempt: //a[@href]/text()[contains(.,”@”)] It’s pretty bad. I wanted to find links starting with “mailto:” but couldn’t figure out how to operate on the href attribute. second attempt: //a/@href[contains(.,”mailto:”)]/..…
Read More Using XPath to find email address linksI used to use this Greasemonkey script for my todo list, but it stopped working months ago with no fix in sight. A good place to start looking for things that let you pretend to be productive is lifehacker, and they do not disappoint. http://lifehacker.com/399985/five-best-to+do-list-managers Some factors I’m considering: I don’t want to register for…
Read More The Search for a TODO ListSo I just realized that the way I do dishes is influenced by basic supply and demand. Here’s the skinny: I don’t wash cups and utensils. Because I believe my roommates are too loose and wasteful in the use of both. So by refusing to wash them, I artificially decrease the supply of available cups…
Read More Economics and DishwashingSo I get asked to make reference samples off of DVD based material fairly often. Here’s my current quality emphasis workflow: Rip relevant portion of DVD with DVD Decrypter Create DGIndex project, decompress AC3 to PCM Import DGIndex project to Avisynth AudioDub() the decompressed PCM WAV into the Avisynth project. Add any decomb/deinterlace/resize filters as…
Read More My new DVD to Quicktime workflowHmmm, I think that for every environment and every situation, there exists a minimum density of pens such that the average time it takes for a someone looking for a pen is less than the amount of time before frustration sets in. d = minimum density of pens p = density of people v =…
Read More Pen Density FunctionLast January, I had to author a blu-ray disc. This reminded me of the old days of making DVDs years before iMovie and point and click software came out. The specs were to make VC-1 blu-ray discs and WMV files. These are the programs I ended up using to do that: quicktime – process original…
Read More Authoring a Blu-Ray discI’ve been really happy with the Promise NS4300 network attached storage (NAS). It’s biggest weakness is its noise. I got sick of it so I pulled it apart to see what I could do about it. The PSU fan was a 40x40x20 fan (model AD0412UB-C50). Here’s a spec sheet. The noise level is rated at…
Read More Modding the Promise NS4300NUncompressed Quicktimes are the most requested format requested from me. But it’s a lie! Most uncompressed Quicktimes are compressed. Wikipedia is a good place to start reading. Search for stuff like RGB, YUV, 4:4:4, 4:2:2, digibeta, chroma subsampling, ntsc, pal. You back? Ok. So a typical “uncompressed” quicktime is usually compressed color-wise. But we don’t…
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