by Jack Feschuk | Aug 24, 2017 | Technology
Recently I have had to download a large number of videos off the web for the purpose of archiving and transcoding. There are a lot of software products that do this but since I had to download hundreds of them at a time I decided to look into something on the command...
by Jack Feschuk | Aug 24, 2017 | Technology
When you’re on a mac/bsd/*nix system you will likely have access to the “find” command which is extremely useful in helping you to “find” a file. This can be particularly handy in situations where you aren’t familiar with the layout...
by Jack Feschuk | Apr 24, 2017 | Technology
screen is a program which allows you to run multiple terminal instances (think of them each as a window), switch between them and even detach and reattach to one later on. I will provide you with a few examples of how this works and why it is so useful: I often...
by Jack Feschuk | Feb 1, 2017 | Technology
Check if you have the files already: For 64-bit check in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ For 32-bit check in C:\Windows\System32\ If you are unable to locate the files, then please download them here and place them in their respective directories Locate cmd.exe and Run it as an...
by Jack Feschuk | Jan 4, 2017 | Technology
Bootable media has always been finicky over the years and even with things such as UNetbootin, windows is a bit finickier and often needs some specific steps to getting it to boot correctly. Microsoft has created their own tool (Windows USB/DVD Download Tool) to set...
by Jack Feschuk | Nov 30, 2016 | Technology
I recently had to extract data from a binary file and I was only provided with two hexadecimal offsets to obtain it with. Simply speaking, I had to pull out some data from an .ISO file (without mounting it…) and this “arbitrary data” would be a new...
by Jack Feschuk | Nov 30, 2016 | Music, Technology
I just wrote an article about ripping CDs and converting audio files easily and for free and I wanted to post my view on the lossless VS lossy issue out there. For audiophiles out there who can claim they have the mythical Golden Ear which allows them to hear notes...
by Jack Feschuk | Nov 30, 2016 | Music, Technology
Last year I began reorganizing my digital music collection and I made the decision to only have full albums. This meant a lot of space would be needed as I no longer went after just a few singles. At the same time I also wanted to go with a higher-quality audio format...
by Jack Feschuk | Nov 30, 2016 | Technology
You should wait until three months until after the first major update. That is my simple policy for new operating systems. Here is my detailed reasoning: HARDWARE – When a new operating system drops (macOS 10.12 Sierra, Windows 10) it will likely break support...
by Jack Feschuk | Nov 30, 2016 | Technology
If you have an operating system in the form of an .ISO file you may now want to burn it to a USB to run it as a live operating system or even to install it on a computer. This is very easily accomplished today with UNetbootin Just download and install it (Mac,...
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