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diff --git a/posts/2019-04-06-why-have-a-website-in-2019.md b/posts/2019-04-06-why-have-a-website-in-2019.md index 3c74763..cf74233 100644 --- a/posts/2019-04-06-why-have-a-website-in-2019.md +++ b/posts/2019-04-06-why-have-a-website-in-2019.md @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ published_date: "2019-04-06 20:50:19 +0000" layout: post.liquid is_draft: false --- + > Adam, why on earth do you have a website? Wait... Is this a *blog*? It's > 2019, why don't you just use Facebook?! diff --git a/posts/2019-06-07-how-to-start-and-drive-a-hudson-hornet.md b/posts/2019-06-07-how-to-start-and-drive-a-hudson-hornet.md index 526c235..811c75f 100644 --- a/posts/2019-06-07-how-to-start-and-drive-a-hudson-hornet.md +++ b/posts/2019-06-07-how-to-start-and-drive-a-hudson-hornet.md @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ published_date: "2019-06-07 00:30:37 +0000" layout: post.liquid is_draft: false --- + My understanding is there are a lot of people out there for whom driving a car from the mid-20th century is an oddity, a curiosity, or a life experience they can't relate to. It's hard to capture what the actual experience is like in diff --git a/posts/2019-07-04-the-best-way-to-transfer-gopro-files-with-linux.md b/posts/2019-07-04-the-best-way-to-transfer-gopro-files-with-linux.md index bb2b164..9aa540f 100644 --- a/posts/2019-07-04-the-best-way-to-transfer-gopro-files-with-linux.md +++ b/posts/2019-07-04-the-best-way-to-transfer-gopro-files-with-linux.md @@ -14,27 +14,26 @@ published_date: "2019-07-04 21:54:49 +0000" layout: post.liquid is_draft: false --- + Transferring files off of most cameras to a Linux computer isn't all that -difficult. Normally I can rip out the SD card and transfer files or just use a -USB data transfer of some kind. The exception is my GoPro Hero 4 Black. For 4th -of July week I took a bunch of video with the GoPro, approximately 20 MP4 -files, about 3GB each. The annoying thing about the GoPros USB interface is -you need an app to download everything this way. The camera doesn't just show -up as a USB device that you can mount. The GoPro does have a micro-SD card but -I'm away from home and didn't have any dongles or adapters. - -The solution? GoPro cameras, after the Hero 3, can open up an ad-hoc wireless -network that lets you browse the GoPro's onboard files through an HTTP server. -This means you can open your browser and scroll through the files on the camera -at a intranet address, `10.5.5.9`, and download them one by one. Well if you -have like two dozen videos on there it kinda sucks. - -> *Smiles warmly* - -So, I opened up the manual for `wget`. I'm sure you could get really fancy with -some of the options but the only thing I cared about was downloading every -single MP4 video off of the camera, automatically. I did not want to download -any of the small video formats or actual HTML files. So here's what I did: +difficult. The exception is my GoPro Hero 4 Black. For 4th of July week I took +a bunch of video with the GoPro, approximately 20 MP4 files, about 3GB each. +The annoying thing about the GoPro's USB interface is you need additional +software to download everything through the cable. The camera doesn't just show +up as a USB filesystem that you can mount. The GoPro does have a micro-SD card +but I was away from home and didn't have any dongles or adapters. Both of these +solutions also mean taking the camera out of its waterproof case and off of its +mount. So here's what I did. + +GoPro cameras, after the Hero 3, can open up an ad-hoc wireless network that +lets you browse the GoPro's onboard files through an HTTP server. This means +you can open your browser and scroll through the files on the camera at an +intranet address, `10.5.5.9`, and download them one by one by clicking every +link on every page. If you have a lot of footage on there it kinda sucks. So, I +opened up the manual for `wget`. I'm sure you could get really fancy with some +of the options but the only thing I cared about was downloading every single +MP4 video off of the camera, automatically. I did not want to download any of +the small video formats or actual HTML files. Here's what I used: ```sh $ wget --recursive --accept "*.MP4" http://10.5.5.9:8080/ diff --git a/posts/2019-07-04-yabs-yet-another-bad-shop.md b/posts/2019-07-04-yabs-yet-another-bad-shop.md index da47b67..f988ca7 100644 --- a/posts/2019-07-04-yabs-yet-another-bad-shop.md +++ b/posts/2019-07-04-yabs-yet-another-bad-shop.md @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ published_date: "2019-07-04 22:12:46 +0000" layout: post.liquid is_draft: false --- + Today I received a text message from a local mechanic/auto shop asking me to leave them a Google review. It was an automated message from a shop that I know well and have used many times in the past. Unfortunately, I have had several |