Jeremy Chapman : Montreal Linux Computer Consultant

Helmet cameras aid crime battle

Anti-social behaviour on Teesside is being tackled with the use spy cameras mounted on police cycle helmets.

The hi-tech crime fighting tool has so far secured eight Anti-Social Behaviour Contracts and stemmed rowdy behaviour problems in Ingleby Barwick.

According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.

Check out the screenshot of Windows Live search in IE5.5 - they did not even try to make it work, forget it! We as devs have to deal with all their crap browsers and stupid quirks, but hey, when they put a site up, screw testing! We are only the creators of the piece of junk we call a browser, why would we make webpages that work in it?

First test using this cool firefox plugin derived from performancing's previous extension. Technorati Tags: blogging, firefox

IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Linux (or any OS running Wine).

No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you'll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it's free and open source.

IEs4Linux

Claims from inebriated festival goers that they spotted a UFO hovering near the festival site at this weekend's V Festival in Stafforshire may actually be more fact than fiction.

Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que.

Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations but this time the alleged "agents provocateurs" have been caught on camera.

if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) {
printf("Don't Panic!\n");
exit(42);
}

— Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February '95, describing RCS

Xandros Takes Microsoft's Linux Patent Protection - UPDATED: Small Linux vendor gets intellectual property protection from Microsoft for
its users. [Internet.com Headlines]

Here is what I am using so far:

#!/bin/sh

mencoder -forceidx \
-lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames \
-of lavf -ffourcc FLV1 \
-oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -srate 22050 \
-ovc lavc \
-lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=250:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3 \
-vf scale=360:240 \
-o $1.flv $1

UPDATE (07-05-2008):

I have been playing with tagging massive amounts of photos and importing them into Gallery. Gallery has a new keywords album feature that auto extracts the IPTC keyword data and then provides dynamic albums based on the keywords. It is unfortunately still somewhat of an afterthought, without a dedicated tagging system or UI, but it works so far, and it makes handling those huge collections far easier.

Next step is geotagging everything at the same time, and making a workflow and script to speed things up even more.