Saturday, January 30, 2010

How Far Is Velachery From Stella Mary's College

Before leaving: Playing with the telephone

closes the series "before leaving" with this post (well overdue, since I started almost a week ..)

Having your subscription Vodafone's business, I had fixed costs: the government concession tax: € 12.9 per month plus € 10 per month for phone and comprehensive insurance. Expecting to be away for several months this year, I decided to change this .. then I went from a subscription business rechargeable normal.

I went to the Vodafone One points with a + next: identity card, tax code and VAT notice of award (must be issued for less than 6 months, but it's OK to self-certification).
I immediately gave the new SIM, sent a fax to vodafone and within two days the old SIM card did not make me more call for which I replaced. Having

the contract for more than two years, the phone is left to me without any penalty. On
190.it I had to redo the procedure activation, but other than that there was no contraindication for the subscription rate rechargeable

Since I did not take other measures to cut fixed costs in Italy while they are abroad declare, for now, concluded the series of post "Before you go" ..

Friday, January 29, 2010

Stages Of Germination Of A Seedling

u10: split-screen with ffmpeg

I love my u10 .
Today I Was Trying to split the video of Mashapa's event in Bicocca (1hr +, for 1.2GB).
I did to try and open with kino movie editor. In Particular kino, When opening this file, tried to export it in DV format: I Killed When It HAD IT done the 30% of the conversion with a .dv file of more than 3GB..

So i was wandering how i could split this huge file. The answer? My beloved ffmpeg.
So:


shatsar@erakis:/tmp/video$ ffmpeg -i sdv_0032.mp4
[..]
Duration: 01:02:48.09, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2909 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 720x480 [PAR 32:27 DAR 16:9], 2766 kb/s, 119.84 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 119.88 tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s


bitrate 2766 kb/s, fps 119, audio 128kb/s ..impressive (we did this video at the lowest quality of u10)

For example: to take out a video (with a lower bitrate and fps) of 6m and 14m from 15s and 39s starting from the original video i did:


Shats erakis @: / tmp / video $ ffmpeg-i sdv_0032 . mp4-ss "00:14:39"-t "00:06:15"-B 1800K-r 50 video1.mp4
Shats erakis @: / tmp / video $ ls-alh video1.mp4
-rw-r - r - 1 Shats Shats 84M 01/29/2010 17:16 video1.mp4


not bad ..

Monday, January 18, 2010

Online Calculator Annealing Temperature

Before you leave: Credit card

continue the series "Before starting" with an overview discussion of credit cards.
These days I made a couple of rounds in the bank / post office to check some parameters: the monthly cost cap, the cost of charges for payments in foreign currency on the advance and the cost of money (the cash withdrawal) in foreign currency.
Change the roof of monthly expenditure requires a few days and has been operational from next month, and then, if absolutely necessary, is an operation to be done on time.

My credit card (visa on account INTESASANPAOLO) has these committees:
currency transactions: exchange rates used by Visa plus a maximum fee of 2% cash advance transactions
4% with a minimum of Euro 5 16

postepay While no additional taxes on foreign currency transactions and fixed fees of € 5 on the sampling procedures. So

delivery with both: with credit card to be used more as a guarantee for some operations (where rental cars and stuff like that), while for the operations of every day, because of postepay!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Pokemon World Online 2010 Mac

before leaving on car insurance

opens a mini-series of posts dedicated to preparations for a long trip (like 3 months).
The first post is dedicated to car insurance.

The good news is that you can suspend .

how it works: before leaving port is in the insurance slip (the one on display on the windscreen) and the green card .
Since that time the insurance is suspended for a minimum period of three months.

Then, once back in Italy just re going to insurance (withdrawing the slip and the green card) and receive this treatment: the payment will be made slip of the suspension period (if this reaches at least 90 days).

For example: If I pay the insurance each year in early August to suspend for a period of three months, pay its renewal in early November.

The operation is free.

PS: For those interested, the minimum period of suspension of insurance instead of the bike is 60 days.