There are many ways to do this. You could use Windows Movie Maker, iMovie or professional movie editing applications. If you’re looking for something quick and dirty from the command line, especially if you have all images in one directory and they don’t require any post processing, ImageMagick can help.

ImageMagick is available for for Windows, Linux and MacOS X. The convert utility that comes with it is probably one of the most useful utilities I’ve ever used. Take for example, the task of converting a BMP image to JPEG.

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) claims to support SIP natively. For some weird reason it does not play well with SmartVOIP, probably due to missing STUN server support. SmartVOIP provide a native android app called MobileVOIP but it doesn’t integrate with the Android UI. I found this nifty little app called CSipSimple which has loads of configuration options (e.g. connect when on WiFi and or 3G etc). It integrates really well with the native CyanogenMod UI and seems to be working really well in my limited tests. It’s available on the android market by the same name. I finally decided to get rid of Skype from my phone as it tends to use a lot of memory and isn’t particularly cheap when calling other phones.

A security auditor for our servers has demanded the following within two weeks:

• A list of current usernames and plain-text passwords for all user accounts on all servers
• A list of all password changes for the past six months, again in plain-text
• A list of “every file added to the server from remote devices” in the past six months
• The public and private keys of any SSH keys
• An email sent to him every time a user changes their password, containing the plain text password

We’re running Red Hat Linux 5/6 and CentOS 5 boxes with LDAP authentication.

No root? No problem! Obtain a copy of rubygems from ruby forge.

$ tar xzvf rubygems-1.4.2   
$ cd rubygems-1.4.2   
$ ruby setup.rb --prefix=/your/home/folder/local   
$ echo "RUBYLIB=$HOME:/same/path/as/above/lib" >> ~/.bash_profile   
$ echo "export RUBYLIB" >> ~/.bash_profile   
$ source ~/.bash_profile   

This should give you a working install of rubygems. Check out the environment

$ gem env   

Install something

$ gem install rake   

BANGALORE, India—Call-center company 24/7 Customer Pvt. Ltd. is desperate to find new recruits who can answer questions by phone and email. It wants to hire 3,000 people this year. Yet in this country of 1.2 billion people, that is beginning to look like an impossible goal.

So few of the high school and college graduates who come through the door can communicate effectively in English, and so many lack a grasp of educational basics such as reading comprehension, that the company can hire just three out of every 100 applicants.

Found this wonderful way to understand complicated c code. Cdecl at www.cdecl.org

Received an email today about a job opening at a major CMM level
something company. Required skill : VMWare. Experience required 2 - 15
years. VMWare was founded in 1998, that gives us 12 years since it’s
been around. How does one have 15 years of experience with something
that wasn’t around until 12 years ago? Who writes these job
descriptions?

Why bother? I can’t think of a reason other than because. My muttrc
(single gmail account) copied from various muttrcs around the
internet.

set imap_user = "EMAILID@gmail.com"   
set imap_pass = "Password"   
set smtp_url = "smtp://EMAILID@smtp.gmail.com:587/"   
set smtp_pass = ""   
set from = "EMAILID"   
set realname = "Ritesh Sinha"   
set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"   
set spoolfile = "+INBOX"   
set postponed="+[Gmail]/Drafts"   
set record = "+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"   
set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers   
set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies   
set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates   
set move = no   
set include   
set sort = 'threads'   
set sort_aux = 'reverse-last-date-received'   
set auto_tag = yes   
set imap_check_subscribed   
set hostname = gmail.com   
ignore headers *   
unignore headers from to subject date cc   
hdr_order Date From To Cc   
color attachment brightmagenta black   
color error brightwhite red # errors yell at you in red   
color hdrdefault white black # headers   
color indicator default magenta # currently selected message   
color markers brightcyan black # the + for wrapped pager lines   
color message brightcyan black # informational messages, not mail   
color normal white black # plain text   
color quoted green black # quoted text   
color search brightgreen black # hilite search patterns in the pager   
color signature green black # signature (after "-- ") is red   
color status brightyellow blue # status bar is yellow *on blue*   
color tilde blue black # ~'s after message body   
color tree red black # thread tree in index menu is magenta   
color underline yellow black   
color header brightwhite black ^(From|Subject): # Important headers   
color body magenta black "(ftp|http)://[^ ]+" # picks up URLs   
color body magenta black [-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+   
color index brightgreen black ~N   
source "/usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/gpg.rc" # This is for GPG   
set pgp_sign_as=0xB8914BE6   
set pgp_autosign=no   
auto_view text/html   
set sort=reverse-date-sent   
set query_command="goobook query '%s'"   
bind editor  complete-query   
bind editor  noop   
# Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts   
macro index,pager y "unset trashn "   
"Gmail archive message"   
macro index,pager d "set   
trash="imaps://imap.googlemail.com/[GMail]/Bin"n "   
"Gmail delete message"   
macro index,pager gi "=INBOX" "Go to inbox"   
macro index,pager ga "=[Gmail]/All Mail" "Go to all mail"   
macro index,pager gs "=[Gmail]/Starred" "Go to   
starred messages"   
macro index,pager gd "=[Gmail]/Drafts" "Go to drafts"   

Living in an area with very frequent powercuts, I’m often annoyed by the constant beeping of the UPS at odd hours. I have a system that is constantly on and is connected to a very basic UPS that provides no power management features at all (via USB or serial). In Bangalore, you don’t really need a constant buzzing sound to remind you that the power is out, the unbearable heat is enough to get you up and about. I thought of many ways to try and kill the stupid buzzer but all (non intrusive) methods failed. Today, during a “scheduled” power outage decided to take the damn thing apart and figure out how I could get rid of it. The UPS in question is made by APC with the model number BackUPS ES 500. It’s pretty easy to take apart with a standard star screwdriver.