>>Single Point of Failure >>

Let me just start by saying that “I love to be a computer programmer!”…

Yes, I also enjoy all the other stuff related with computers, but my main drive is pick up a problem, find an algorithm to solve it and then put it to work (programming like craky…)! One way to improve these skills is to solve programming problems.

There’s an excelent site where that is possible and simple. Just subscribe to the UVa Online Judge, select one of many problems available and submit your solution. Problem’s difficulty range from very easy to extremely difficult.

My phrase of the day is “If you can play it, you can store it…”.

If you use mplayer as your usual media player my congratulations. This one of the best and more versatile media player I know. This shell command media player (there is also a GUI available to those who prefer the little buttons) never failed me…

The ability to play media streams over the net (through mms, rtsp, etc) is one of my favorite features. Another great feature is the ability to store locally the stream’s content.

Simply run:

$ mplayer mms://server/stream.wmv -dumpstream -dumpfile local_file.wmv

and all stream content will be stored in your local file repository.