Giacomo Segre
Centoquaranta anni fa oggi, Pio IX minacciò di scomunica chi avesse aperto il fuoco verso le mura di Roma: forse per questo Cadorna diede l’ordine al Capitano Giacomo Segre di far azionare la propria batteria di cannoni. Come si può capire dal cognome, Segre era ebreo e della scomunica del Papa non credo avesse molto [...]
Renewables won’t push the bad guys out
Someone thinks that a world with its entire energy needs completely satisfied by renewable sources would eventually become an only good people place: what a naive and irrational fallacy! Technology doesn’t change us that much.
Splitting MPG files with ffmpeg
This is just a short reminder for me and a note for you: this one-liner might be helpful if you need to write a little script for splitting a long MPG file in shorter parts without quality loss (this example cuts from 40th minute to 1 hour). ffmpeg -sameq -ab 256k -vcodec copy -acodec ac3 [...]
