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Process Vuze XR 5.7K 180º VR RAW footage with FFmpeg

If you’re looking to process the RAW 5.7K 180º video footage of the Vuze XR without using the pretty buggy and no longer supported Vuze VR Studio software there’s a way to do it with ffmpeg. For now Vuze VR Studio still works on Mac (check out Vuze XR camera software download – on Apple …

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How to create and password protect a ZIP file on macOS/Linux using the command line

I was in need of password protecting a ZIP file on macOS, but couldn’t find an intuitive way to do so. Luckily we can do it on the terminal. This works with both macOS and Linux. This command will prompt you for a password to protect the ZIP file with. The result will be an …

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Duplicati – an alternative for Rackspace Cloud Files Sync

I’ve been using Rackspace Cloud Files Sync, a little piece of software I’ve written myself, for some years now. I use it to backup my photo’s and movies I’ve shot over the last decade or so. The thing I like about it is that it syncs your local folder with a Cloud Files container. When …

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Enabling Bash auto-completion in Ubuntu

Virtual Private Servers are usually installed with the minimum required software. More often than not this means Bash auto-completion isn’t enabled, which is a tad bit annoying as it slows down navigation. To fix this you can install the bash-completion package. Like so: $ sudo apt-get install bash-completion

Keeping VirtualBox Guest Additions in sync with Vagrant

Whenever you’re upgrading the software packages on your VirtualBox machine, managed by Vagrant, you risk VirtualBox Guest Additions render unusable and thus your shared folders don’t work anymore. This usually happens whenever a kernel upgrade is being done which requires the VirtualBox drivers to be recompiled. Thanks to a Vagrant plugin called vbguest you can …

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