Improved one-liner: mpg123 -s input.mp3 | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o output.m4b – The trouble with the above (works on the MacBook) is that you need the terminal, mpg123 and faac. These are all easy to get and install, especially if you are using macports or the fink. I’m using macports now since …
Monthly Archive: November 2004
Nov
29
Textbook disclaimer stickers
This is simply one of the most frightening examples of (mocking) what’s going on with the current Administration plans with respect to science. Textbook disclaimer stickers. The real problem here is that this will affect us far beyond 2008. This is going to pervert a whole generation of students and leave us really quite behind …
Nov
22
Attacked by a what?!
Sometimes you cannot help but laugh yourself stupid. It might be with a bunch of friends positing something about a bland celebrity or it might be reading someone elses description of a life-changing event. This story had me ROTFLMAO. Thanks PK.
Nov
21
ID: draft-jennings-sipping-outbound-00
draft-jennings-sipping-outbound-00 TXT HTML Abstract SIP has many situations where a request can only be routed over an existing connection. This can arise in cases with firewall or network address translation (NAT) devices in the network path, over both UDP and TCP. TLS is also affected when the user agent (UA) does not have a certificate …
Nov
20
Network Discipline
Some days, you just need help beating on the network, or at least someone responsible for the network. In these cases, nothing quite beats (like) a CAT-5 o’ nine tails – Professional Version (of course).
Nov
19
reSIProcate: Now with DTLS support!
Everybody’s favourite SIP stack (reSIProcate) now has (preliminary) support for Datagram TLS (DLTS) [paper, draft]. What a coup! Big thanks to Nagendra for his contribution of time, labour and understanding. Nagendra is one of the authors of the IETF internet draft that outlines the DTLS protocol, co-authored with Eric Rescorla, of OpenSSL general fame. Update: …
Nov
12
Larry King Changed My Life
Sitting around with some good friends we managed to have one of those really serious “I think someone is going to pass-out” laughs. Turns out it was a long and twisted journey starting with an evil step-sister and ending with a confession that Larry King Changed My Life. No, I’m not allowed to explain it, …
Nov
12
When T9 Meets Ego
So at the recent IETF meeting in Washington, D.C. this week I was sitting around with some fine friends and thought I’d modify a vCard in my friend’s Nokia 6600 phone. I diligently tap CTO into the Title field and the predictive text entry (T9) shows: BUM Thanks! I guess T9 works better than we’re …
Nov
09
Interesting Maps :: Election 2004 Results
Election 2004 Results Robert J. Vanderbei Vanderbei’s maps and data are well done and very interesting. Well worth reading if you haven’t seen this already. It paints a very fair picture of things, not at all the impression you get looking at the maps usually run in the mainstream media.
Nov
09
Old Tips / More Tips
For completeness’ sake, the old switch page is still online. There are a few less useful tips there that I am not likely to migrate and a few tips that I haven’t had time to migrate yet.