Category Archives: Computers

M1 Mac Mini Review

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

Bought a M1 Mac mini after reading the rave reviews on YouTube and elsewhere. E.g., over here an enthusiastic person writes: My 2021 MBA M1, 8GB, 256GB just works waaaay faster than my 2018 MacMini i7 (6-core 3.2GHz), 32GB, 500GB … Continue reading →

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How to scale an image – a comparison of different algorithms

Posted on March 27, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

Scaling (or resizing) an image (making it bigger or smaller) is so common these days that we take it for granted but have you ever wondered how it is done? An image is made up of M x N pixels. … Continue reading →

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How to fix tiny display in Mac

Posted on March 18, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

TL;DR: In my case it happened because even though I had a 28″ display (Philips 28 E line), Mac OS (Big Sur specifically on my Macbook Pro) was detecting it as a 61″ display and so naturally everything was 2x … Continue reading →

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ffmpeg – convert mov files to mp4

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

Ffmpeg -I mov-file -b <bit-rate> mp4-file Calculate bit rate as desired file size in bits / duration of video in seconds e.g., for 100MB file and 20 min video, bit rate should be 100e6*8/(20*60) Us -b:v to set bitrate for video … Continue reading →

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A comparison of Android vs. IPhone

Posted on November 22, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

Android iphone comes with 3.5mm headphone jack no headphone jack charger included no charger included can re-use existing cables have to buy all sorts of new cables, charger and accessories (bluetooth headset or earbuds) can extend storage with external SD … Continue reading →

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Modifying owner of a file on Mac

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

The chown command allows one to change the owner of a file. If you can’t run the command due to insufficient privileges, another way to change the owner is through Finder – this also requires elevated privileges. Here are the … Continue reading →

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AsciiDoctor: Inspecting Environment settings of Ruby

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Siddharth Jain

Within the docker-asciidoctor container you can see Ruby settings like so

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VS Code Setup

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Siddharth Jain

Getting Bash IDE to work in VS Code: Installing bash-language-server in non global mode: https://github.com/mads-hartmann/bash-language-server/issues/97 To Install/Update Go Tools View -> Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P) To open a file quickly, Cmd+P By default Cmd+P will open file in the current TAB … Continue reading →

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Installing Bash4

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Siddharth Jain

A new macbook pro comes installed with bash version 3. I needed to install bash 4 to be able to use the bash debug vs code extension. To do this run brew install bash once its done you will need … Continue reading →

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Steps to setup NES on Rasberry Pi

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Siddharth Jain

I have this model of Rasberry Pi Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (1GB) Basic Starter Kit Includes Raspberry Pi 2 Model B– To setup NES you need 7-zip and Win32DiskImager Download Retropie v4.1 Extract using 7-zip. This step should dump … Continue reading →

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