Category: Logbook
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Carnivore library under Ubuntu
According to the website, Carnivore is a surveillance tool for data networks. A little tool for a «personal Echelon». And what’s best is that it exists as a library for Processing. Since there isn’t much documentation for the linux users. I’ll document here my firsts test in getting this library to work under Ubuntu. I…
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Burma VJ
Yesterday evening, for the opening of the One World festival at Bozar, I had the chance to watch Burma VJ, a documentary film by Anders Østergaard. Burma (or Myanmar) is a country that we don’t hear much about. And the main reason is because it is ruled by a military junta that has total control…
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OpenCV + GStreamer + Camera over IP
It has been quite some time since I was looking for a simple solution for an installation using OpenCV. My main problem comes from the fact that the camera needs to be in perfect alignment with the projector axis (ideally placed right on the projector itself). And until now, I was using a hacked webcam…
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My FOSDEM BUG
Every year, I’m so happy to see that the Fosdem is coming back to town. For those who don’t know what it is, it’s a huge free and open source software developper meeting in Brussels. And the fact that it is so geographically accessible makes it a good reason to attend it. I’m not a…
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Convert mov to flv
A usefull command line that works well. Requires flvtool2 to add meta data to the final flv file. ffmpeg -i film.mov -ar 22050 -ab 128k -b 400k -s 320×240 -aspect 4:3 -f flv – | flvtool2 -U stdin film.flv
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wp2spip-0.1
It’s been quite a while since I’ve been looking for a way to transfer a website from WordPress to Spip, without any luck. There is a small php script deep in the mailing archives of rezo.net. But it was not doing the job the way I wanted. Script works ok, but doesn’t make a difference…
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A drawing translated in Chinese.
I’ve just found out that one of my caricatures made for the NoOOxml campaign has been translated in Chinese. (Well, at least, it looks Chinese to me) During a quick chat with Benjamin Henrion, the main NoOoxml.org campaign’s coordinator, he was telling me how much these drawings had been appreciated and that they had been…