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How to convert AAC to MP3 on Mac OS X

1. install VLC 3. create a file called convert.sh on your desktop ie. ~/Desktop/convert.sh 4. chmod +x convert.sh 5. make the contents of convert.sh #!/bin/sh vlc="/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC" ext="mp3" dst="/Users/[your name]/Desktop/" for a in *$fmt; do $vlc -I dummy -vvv "./$a" --sout "#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:std{mux=raw,dst=\"$dst$a.$ext\",access=file}" vlc://quit done 6. open terminal and cd to folder that has your AAC music files ie. ~/Desktop/AAC 7. then type ~/Desktop/convert.sh *.aac 8. sit back and relax as the files are converted Notes http://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_Batch_Encode http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo_New#Example_commandline:_Converting_an_audio_file_to_a_MP3_file

windows server 2003 logon logoff loop

this saved my bacon when i client raid got out of sync (sil 0680 dual ide to be exact) and left me with two mirrored drives - booting up windows assigned c:\ to one of the drives and f:\ to the other and marked one as active and the other as system messing around with the raid controller somehow removed all the partitions on the c:\ volume so i had to get the f:\ to boot - which it would but after logging in it would log me off then i search for windows server 2003 logon logoff loop and found this (actually a pdf of this!) - which worked!! http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/2006-02/msg01237.html Due to the various manipulations you performed, your system drive letter is now something other than C:. The easiest solution is probably to delete all current drive letter references and let Windows re-assign them. Run regedit.exe and navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices. Now delete all values that look like this: \DosDevices\E: to DosDevices\...

Google Chrome Browser Cache

info about Google Chrome Browser Cache on mac os x 1. /Users/[username]/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache 2. to view cache in google put this in url "about:cache" 3. to find a file - copy and paste the url from the cache - and paste into url 4. save the file to your desktop - check the file size 5. look in the google cache for a file of the same size

how to make backup folder for retrospect or some other backup program to backup filemaker server on windows

I made this because I use Retrospect to backup my FileMaker server databases. Retrospect will to backup a folder and copy any changes it finds. Since FileMaker server creates timestamped backups, it will see all the files as new because they are in a new folder. This basically puts the backups back to the way FileMaker Server 5.5 did backups. requirements windows server 2003, windows resource kit, filemaker server, filemaker server php 1. make a folder c:\cp 2. make a file retrospect_backup_prep.cmd in the c:\cp directory 3. put this in its contents "C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Web Publishing\publishing-engine\php\php.exe" \cp\retrospect_backup_prep.phpretrospect_backup_prep.cmd 4. make a file retrospect_backup_prep.php in the c:\cp directory 5. put this in its contents 6. Edit these variables: # when does your daily backup schedule run - in 24 hour clock format $FMScheduleTime = " "; /* ie. 23 */ # where is FileMaker's backup directory: $FileMak...

how to build micropolis - the open source simcity - for mac os x

requirements - Apple Development tools - ie the Developer folder 1. download http://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/micropolis?a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz 2. you will have micropolis-HEAD.tar.gz on your desktop 3. uncompress it with tar zxvf micropolis-HEAD.tar.gz - or just double click 4. launch terminal, cd Desktop, cd micropolis 5. type make 6. su 7. type make install 8. to start the game type /usr/local/bin/micropolis

Excel, ODBC, FileMaker 11 and the Mac

Here's how I got Excel to query FileMaker 11 Advanced via ODBC on the Mac. 0. Get background from http://filemakerproandexcelodbcsolution.blogspot.com/ 1. From the FileMaker 11 Advanced CD, open the xDBC folder, and the ODBC Client Driver Installer, and run the FileMaker ODBC.mpkg. This will install the FileMaker ODBC.bundle in the /Library/ODBC Folder 2. From the http://www.iodbc.org/dataspace/iodbc/wiki/iODBC/Downloads, Download the appropriate Mac OS X SDK, for my 10.5 Mac I installed iodbc-sdk-3.52.7-macosx-10.5.dmg. 3. I launched FileMaker Pro 11, created a new database file "Untitled.fp7" with one field (Name) and two records "josh" and "Bob". 4. A dialog comes up asking 'Do you want the application "fmxdbc_listener.bundle" to accept incoming network connections?" - I said Allow. 5. I pulled down the File menu and selected "Sharing -> ODBC/JDBC..." 5. I turned on ODBC Sharing, selected "Untitled.fp7" in t...