I haven't test these. They are collected for reference only. With mencoder, from HOWTO: Convert and write AVCHD (.mts) to DVD with Linux mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts fo... With HandBrake (GUI): Transcoding AVHD (Cannon HF100 .mts) into a usable open format (MKV w/ FFMPEG) With ffmpeg & WinFF (GUI and command line): How to convert Canon .mts video files to other formats in Ubuntu With mencoder, from Transcoding AVCHD (.mts or .m2ts) files using mencoder on Linux (no deinterlacing): # 1 pass mencoder $file -o ./$file.avi -oac cop... With ffmpeg, from Stuttering playback of canon MTS files #!/bin/bash for i in "$i"*.MTS; do name="${i%.*... #!/bin/bash for i in "$i"*.MTS; do name="${i%.*... With mencoder, from [MEncoder-users] problems with AVCHD (.mts) + Deinterlace...

Both include and require include and evaluate the file specified as argument. The only difference is, when the included file cannot be found, include emits a warning while require emits a fatal error. Example: <?php include('non-existing-file'); require(... Outputs: PHP Warning: include(non-existing-file): failed t... Suppress error with @ : <?php @include('non-existing-file'); echo "A... Outputs: After include

You get "permission denied" error from Apache HTTPD for a page. And you checked file/directory permissions (the whole directory path, not just the file) and everything in httpd.conf . If everything seemed right, then SELinux may be blocking the access. Open /var/log/httpd/error_log , you may see a line like this: [Wed Apr 13 15:50:35 2011] [notice] SELinux poli... These are the steps to fix: If the directory resides in a user home directory: # setsebool -P httpd_read_user_content 1 Create a policy package from the audit log: # grep httpd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allo... Apply the policy package just created # semodule -i mypol.pp Restart apache httpd: # apachectl restart

From the nc man page: The nc (or netcat) utility is used for just about anything under the sun involving TCP or UDP. It can open TCP connections, send UDP packets, listen on arbitrary TCP and UDP ports, do port scanning, and deal with both IPv4 and IPv6. To bind to port 8080: nc -l 8080 To connect to the port above nc localhost 8080 Type something in either window it will be echoed in the other. To get the home page of google: echo -e -n "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:www.google.com\... To send email via SMTP: nc -C localhost 25 << EOF HELO host.example.com... Port scan of localhost: $ nc -z localhost 20-8080 Connection to localho...

Use the codecs module to read file in Unicode. This is from the Python doc : import codecs f = codecs.open('unicode.rst', en... I had some luck reading files mainly in ASCII but contained some binary data with: import codecs f = codecs.open('unicode.rst', en...

For Python 2.6 and later, this: with open(filename) as logfile: for line in... is equivalent to this: logfile = open(filename) try: for line i...

This is an Ant custom task to merge Properties files I lifted from http://marc.info/?l=ant-user&m=106442688632164&w=2 , with some minor bug fixes. Example usage: <taskdef name="mergeProperty" classname="ant.task.... Implementation: package ant.task.addon; import java.io.Buff...

There is a open source project named [ini4j] for processing Windows .ini configuration files. However, I found it an overkill for my purposes. So here is my simple implementation of a .ini parser. It mimics the standard java.util.Properties class with enhancements to get and set properties by section name. There are only a few simple rules: Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed from section names, property names and property values. Section names are enclosed between [ and ] . Properties following a section header belong to that section Properties defined before the appearance of any section headers are considered global properties and should be set and get with no section names. You can use either equal sign ( = ) or colon ( : )...

This is the error: >>> import urllib2 >>> f = urllib2.urlopen('htt... Reason: SSL is not supported in Python installation. >>> import httplib >>> hasattr(httplib, 'HTTPS'... Solution: recompile Python with SSL on Steps: Download and install OpenSSL , if you don't have it already. Download Python source and rebuild Python (the usual steps of configure, make and make install). Python's configure script should be able to pick up your existing SSL libraries automatically and build a shared library _ssl.so. Some web sites suggest editing the file Modules/setup.dist , uncomment the lines starting with _ssl , and making changes to the SSL path. This would link the SSL library statically to Python. # Socket module helper for socket(2) #_socket s...

It's quite easy for Perl to open a pipe and read from it: $file = "nospace.txt"; open(IN, "cat $file |") ... But the code breaks when the file name contains a space: # This does not work! $file = "yes space.txt"; ... On Windows, these don't work either: # This does not work! $file = "yes space.txt"; ... You need to use a technique called Safe Pipe Opens : $file = "yes space.txt"; $prog = "cat"; ...