Monthly Archives: September 2011

Shortcut: Use Vimeo to convert WMV files to MP4 format for free

While working on a recent personal video project, I was importing about two dozen short video clips created by various friends into iMovie.  Most of them imported without any trouble at all, but a few of them were WMV files … Continue reading

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Would I have been better off with the service plan?

We just had to have one of the sump pumps in our basement replaced.  This is probably just bad luck, but you could make a good argument that I brought this on myself.  When Hurricane Irene passed through New England, … Continue reading

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Determine a linux server’s public ip address from the command line

We were recently setting up a linux server to integrate with a partner of ours, and we found that it was unable to connect to the remote server.  Our first suspicion was that our partner was blocking any ip addresses … Continue reading

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