A Sunlit Kelpie
Cold but bright It may have been down at around -2°C that morning, but the walk in Falkirk was great. The Kepies are really impressive!
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Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 10: Reflection, Lessons Learned, and Improvements
Every day is a school day We set out to use OCR to extract metadata from frames of the loading and ending screens of Deep… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 10: Reflection, Lessons Learned, and Improvements
Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 6: Automatically Detecting Loading / Ending Screens
We’re using OCR to extract game metadata from Deep Rock Galactic videos. We’re now at the point where if we give our script two images… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 6: Automatically Detecting Loading / Ending Screens
Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 4: Exploring Approaches To Improve Detection
My path in the woods diverged, and I took them all We’ve been seeing if we can apply OCR to the loading screen of Deep… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 4: Exploring Approaches To Improve Detection
Services, Servers, DomUs and Containers, Oh My!
What a tangled web we weave… I was confused. Staring at a console window, wondering how I’d installed a program†. The system package manager knew… Read More »Services, Servers, DomUs and Containers, Oh My!
[solved] MySQL: Can’t find file ‘./db/table.frm’ (errno: 13)
tl;dr If you’re seeing this and the table does exist- check (and fix) permissions! I was searching my backups for a database file which contained… Read More »[solved] MySQL: Can’t find file ‘./db/table.frm’ (errno: 13)
[Fixed] MySQL: Table is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed (+ WordPress)
tl;dr: run myisamchk on the problematic table I’ve run into the following error in my Apache error.log recently: Table ‘database.tablename’ is marked as crashed and… Read More »[Fixed] MySQL: Table is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed (+ WordPress)
Speeding up fdupes
tl;dr: use jdupes I was merging some fileserver content, and realised I would inevitably end up with duplicates. “Aha”, I thought “time to use good… Read More »Speeding up fdupes
Compressing Teamspeak 3 Recordings Using sox
tl;dr: Loop through the files in bash, sox them to FLAC Success! I’ve been combining fileserver contents recently, and I came across a little archive… Read More »Compressing Teamspeak 3 Recordings Using sox
[Solved] “Logical volume is used by another device”
tl;dr: use dmsetup remove before trying lvremove Note: Volume group and logical volume names have been substituted here. I’m not entirely sure it’s necessary, but… Read More »[Solved] “Logical volume is used by another device”