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citations:general

2012-01-09T17:21:08+01:00

Citations générales

En essayant continuellement, on finit par réussir. Donc plus ça rate, plus on a de chances que ça marche. – devise Shadok.

If one keeps trying forever, one succeeds eventually. Therefore, the more one fails, the closer one is to success. – Shadok motto.

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” – Albert Einstein

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” – Susan Ertz

“Tout le monde veut sauver la planète. Mais personne ne veut descendre les poubelles.” – Jean Yanne

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Tolstoï

“Ouvrez une école, vous fermerez une prison.” – Victor Hugo

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” – Henny Youngman

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” – Kenneth Boulding, economist

“When the winds of change are blowing, some people are building shelters and others are building windmills.”

“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” – Richard Feynman

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith, economist

“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” – Franklin P. Jones

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” – George Bernard Shaw, literature Nobel prize

“Nous n'héritons pas la Terre de nos ancêtres, nous l'empruntons à nos enfants.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence” – Evelin Linder

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman

“La pollution n'est pas un gros problème, mais six milliards de petits problèmes.” – Hubert Reeves

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” – Emo Phillips

“Si vous avez l'impression que vous êtes trop petit pour pouvoir changer quelque chose, essayez donc de dormir avec un moustique… et vous verrez lequel des deux empêche l'autre de dormir.” – Dalaï Lama

“Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.” – Douglas Adams

No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. – Turkish proverb

“Quand on pense qu'il suffirait que les gens n'achètent pas pour que ça ne se vende plus ! ” – Coluche

Don't worry about avoiding temptation – as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. – The Old Farmer's Almanac

“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.” – Robert Anton Wilson

“CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“If anything ever comes up in science that clearly contradicts traditional buddhism, then we'll simply have to abandon that aspect of traditional buddhism.” – Dalaï Lama

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” – Thucydides

“Between stimulus and response there's a space, in that space lies our freedom.” – Viktor Frankl

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“It's a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.” – Tim Jackson

“Si vous jugez un poisson par sa capacité à grimper à un arbre, il va passer sa vie entière à croire qu’il est stupide.” – Albert Einstein

“Les altruistes ne sont ni plus ni moins rationnels que les égoïstes. Ils poursuivent simplement des buts différents.” – Robert Frank

notes:accueil

2011-10-16T23:06:26+01:00

Notes en vrac

Fedora

Correspondance avec RHEL:

RHEL 3 =~ RHL9/FC1,
RHEL 4 =~ FC 3,
RHEL 5 =~ FC 6

Multimédia

Lire une vidéo avec un son AAC 5.1 sur le décodeur Dolby Digital 5.1 :

mplayer <film>.mp4 -ao alsa:device=hw=0.1 -ac hwac3, -channels 6 -af lavcac3enc=1:640:3 -af channels=6:6:0:0:2:5:1:2:4:1:3:4:5:3,lavcac3enc=1:640

Source: http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23034

Encoder une vidéo venant de la Freebox:

mencoder -vf pp=ci,crop=480:560:0:8,scale=768:576 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=900 video_entree.ts -o video_sortie.avi

Ou pour du 16:9 :

mencoder -vf pp=ci,crop=480:560:0:8,scale=1054:576 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=900 video_entree.ts -o video_sortie.avi

Source: http://www.posteet.com/view/1205

Si L'image est penchée sur le côté, utiliser :

-vf expand=::::::16

Source: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/bFtHWsQaXgXRFbxUd4OE

Convertir DTS en AC-3 :

mkvextract tracks Film.Origine.mkv 2:audio.dts
dcadec -o wavall audio.dts | aften -b 640 - audio.ac3

Source: http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=258687#p2898121

Système

Faire un reverse tunnel SSH et le garder en fonctionnement :

autossh -M 0 -q -f -N -o "ServerAliveInterval 60" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -R2222:127.0.0.1:22 compte.distant@serveur-distant.example.com

citations:autres

2011-03-20T09:07:57+01:00

“An idealist believes that the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes that the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run” – Sidney J. Harris

Unix IS user-friendly. It is just very picky about who his friends are.

echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc

Un clavier azerty en vaut deux.

A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text ?

For external use only

Allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities. – Bill Gates, 1998

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

“As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours ; and this we should do freely and generously.” – Benjamin Franklin

L'expérience est quelquechose que l'on acquiert juste après en avoir eu besoin.

“Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme.” – Rabelais

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams

“L'adulte ne croit pas au Père Noël. Il vote.” – Pierre Desproges

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” – Albert Einstein

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.” – Dave Barry

“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.” – Hodding Carter

“You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.” – George Burns