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TODO – add my notes, and scripts

was willwap.co.uk (gone as of 2016-03-31)

Corrects busted VBR records in MP3s.

I most notably use this program with my rip-audio-from-video.sh script

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TODO – add my notes, and scripts

was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/jpegoptim/
https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html
https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim

Optimizes JPEG images, performing magic to reduce size, or optionally stripping metadata for even further savings, or performing lossy re-compression for potentially extraordinary size reduction.

I like this idea, and it’s actually freed up a significant amount of space. Being able to take a 5MB file and knock it down to 1MB while maintaining excellent visual quality.. is astonishing

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this needs to be cleaned up

Git-Logo-1788C.png

(on Wikipedia)
https://git-scm.com/

A version control system of some note.

I use it, not that I know what I’m doing.

See also:



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7zip logo

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: 7zip
https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable
https://www.7-zip.org/

An archival program.



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https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

Used for preparing a LiveUSB for Linux distributions‘ .ISO files. Instead of using a CD or DVD, use a USB stick.

Use UNetbootin instead. Although doing the same thing (un7zipping), unetbootin works MUCH faster.

Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.6.0.exe – May 14, 2015

  • 2015-05-14 – DO NOT USE . Whatever process this uses takes motherfucking forever to prepare a USB stick. un7zipping a moderate-sized distribution’s ISO is a good 20 minutes and may end up freezing 7zip.
  • 2014-04-24 on Windows 8.1, with Lubuntu 14.04 amd64.

    • Does not seem to make a bootable USB stick.