by dcorbell | Feb 29, 2012 | Apple, Corbell Consulting, Linux, News
So simple and so useful. If you have a lot of data with ‘unusual’ date stamps, you can easily convert them to ISO compliant Calendar Date format using the built in UNIX date command. -j tells the system not to try to set the date, but to look for input...
by dcorbell | Feb 23, 2011 | Apple, iPhone, News
So I’m about 24 hours in to using my Verizon iPhone and I love it. I was on a call yesterday during traffic hour and I drove from Hollywood to Sherman Oaks without a single hiccup. It’s been years since I’ve been able to do that. I was with Verizon...
by dcorbell | Jul 22, 2010 | Corbell Consulting, News
Since moving to version 0.6 in June 2010 vhooks are no longer available in FFmpeg. It seems like a lot of people are having trouble getting watermarks working properly with the new libavfilter method. I’ll lay out here the steps that I took to get it working...
by dcorbell | Jun 8, 2010 | Apple, Corbell Consulting, News
If you have more than one ethernet port connected during install you won’t be able to verify the serial number. The installer binds the serial number to the MAC address of one of your ethernet ports. If you have more than one active during install it will...
by dcorbell | Sep 2, 2009 | Apple, Corbell Consulting, News
Another change that Snow Leopard brings is the removal of AppleTalk printing support. It’s not that big a surprise, but it would have been nice to know about. In any case, the solution is to add the printers by IP to a Leopard or Snow Leopard server and enable...