Just a little picture

May 23, 2010

Grab.app screenshot workaround: the screencapture command

So that's kind of neat: presumably the MPAA or whoever forced Apple to disable Grab.app (the screen capture tool) from being able to take screen shots when a DVD is playing*. But the "screencapture" command in Terminal.app works just fine.

screencapture -c
puts the image in the clipboard, ready for pasting into the image editor of one's choice. And so we can all revel in the sweet 1978 wall telephone at minute 10 of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

*I guess so I won't take 30 screen shots every second for an entire two-hour movie, and then stitch them all back together to recreate the movie file. If I want to copy a DVD, I use Handbrake; it takes a lot less time and effort.

Posted by Charles at 01:09 AM

May 21, 2010

Float Assembly

So, back in July 2009 I fixed the dishwasher (Kenmore Dishwasher Model Number 665.16032402).

Tonight it wouldn't fill with water when it was turned on. I was sure the pump was dead and I was about to get pretty sore about it. A quick google search turned up instructions on how to check a dishwasher float assembly. So I did and that fixed it. I think the youngster has been messing with that little doohickey in there and pulled it up too high. Here is a picture of the Kenmore dishwasher float assembly in question.

Posted by Charles at 01:21 AM

May 05, 2010

Pictures of Porter

If you're looking for pictures of Porter, I update the Flickr set pretty regularly.

Porter

Posted by Charles at 11:56 AM

Clip a Raster with a Polygon in ArcGIS 9.3

I'd like to clip a raster with a polygon in ArcGIS 9.3.

Spatial Analyst Tools > Extraction > Extract by Mask

Or:

Data Management Tools > Raster > Raster Processing > Clip (and check the "Use Input Features for Clipping Geometry" option to have the tool actually do what you were probably thinking it was going to do)

Once again, Googlebot, that is "Clip a Raster with a Polygon in ArcGIS 9.3."

Posted by Charles at 11:49 AM






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