2007 January

Today I am going to describe several applications that I use very infrequently since I no longer model experimental systems like I did when i worked as a research engineer at SRI International. in those days i had to write my own code, but nowadays we just plug in the equations into an app [...]

This application can take a plethora of video and audio formats and change them into another format in batch mode.
From the sourceforge web page
Feature Highlights

Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats, on the fly, in batch
Give you the control over the transcoding process and all [...]

This is a jave application that can used in batch files, WSH (Windows Shell Host), or other scripting languages to en/decrypt files with passwords that you can provide, or extract from a database. This tool is so good that I have insisted that all our sales people keep their customer lists encrypted using this [...]

The MIT Website is here.
The courses are so comprehensive that I can not possibly do them justice, I know now I can begin studies in fields like “Statistical Learning Theory and Applications”, “Mathematics for Computer Science”, “Holographic Imaging”, and “Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S.” The course works include the books used in [...]

Today I bring you another graphics program that is device independent, and produces graphics that can be sized from small to wall size with no ugly artifacts.
This program is still in the simple stage, so the choices of elements that can be drawn is still limited, rectangles, circles, ellipses and paths. But the big [...]

This entry is like atomic energy. There are good and bad uses for this encryption technology. Us honest folk can use it to make sure that we will never have our customer lists stolen or be the object of another stolen laptop or PC stolen story. The other side of the use is of course [...]

Even though I am “married” to Buddi, GFP is a program that I found a little while ago and have taken the time to read the installation and look through the tutorials. Yes, tutorials with screen shots and descriptions. I know, I know, real men don’t read manuals, don’t need help, and can always find [...]

NUT is a program that I have been using for a while to find the various nutritional components of what is in my pantry. But be warned there is only a command line version and no GUI. So if you do not wish to type, then forget this program and I will try to find [...]