Miscellaneous stuff going on in my life.
In the United States, the Frantz family name began with emigrants from Germany who settled near Leechburg, Pennsylvania. For more information see William Frantz at the Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project.
Read more →I have a 2006 iMac 20″ Core Duo with the ATI Radeon X1600 GPU. Like so many others, my GPU has started crashing when it gets warm and the problem is becoming progressively worse. The machine is now basically unusable which is a real shame because other than the display freezing, it’s still a perfectly [...]
Read more →For a limited time only, you can choose one of the following free DivX movies from FilmFresh: Batman Begins, Ace Ventura, 2 weeks notice, Sisterhood of Travelling Pants or Green Lantern You can also get a free copy of Terminator Salvation from CinemaNow using coupon code TS201023.
Read more →While attending the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, I found out what all the fashionable fans will be wearing to Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia for the 2014 games.
Read more →Currently the #1 download at Film Fresh is a free cartoon by Sid the Science Kid from PBS.
Read more →SHALL WILL SHOULD MUST MAY You see these terms in software requirements documents all the time. There is even an RFC that defines them. Unfortunately, RFC 9119 is poor practical advice.
Read more →Look at the following picture. Stare at the black ‘+’ in the center and you will see a moving green dot but try to follow the green dot with your eyes and it will disappear.
Read more →A different fellow named “William Frantz” was sentenced for negligent homicide following a DUI accident. We both happen to be from Michigan but the defendant is a 19 year old Michigan Tech student who just happens to share my name. I sympathize for the kid but the moral is clear. Drunk driving can be deadly.
Read more →I recently shot some video using the camera on my HTC Touch Cruise. I was easily able to send it as an e-mail attachment using Pocket Outlook and my GMail account. However, when the video arrived it was in an unusable format so I had to do some FFMPEG processing on it.
Read more →I saw this question today so I’m posting my response here for everyone. I am seeking a way to covert my dvd’s to a video file format. I am looking to use mp4 or divx… In the USA it is illegal to circumvent the copy protection found on most commercial DVDs. However, if you have [...]
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