Archive for December, 2006

Me playing Metallica’s One

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Or at least, trying hard!

This video was recorded by Aditya using a Sony Cyber-shot. The mpeg file was then converted to avi using the ffmpeg utility which got the size down from around 25 MB to 3 MB, and lastly uploaded to YouTube
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Using ifrename for consistent naming of network interfaces

Friday, December 1st, 2006

ifrename (8) is a handy utility to assign consistent names to your network interfaces
My IBM ThinkPad has two network interfaces - ethernet and wireless. I normally use the wireless interface (eth1), but at boot time which hardware device actually picks up which device name is quite random.
I configured my /etc/iftab as follows:

# cat /etc/iftab
eth0 […]

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