Notes about Computers, Computing, Computations, Etc.

Some notes about Ionic.

Change video container from Matroska (mkv) to mp4 (assuming the video codec is supported by mp4):

ffmpeg -i name_of_input_file.mkv -codec copy output_file.mp4
# If there's issues with the audio codec:
ffmpeg -i name_of_input_file.mkv -c:v copy -c:a aac output_file.mp4

Gets a list of the software installed on the computer, both 32 and 64 bit. Saves the output to the file C:\Users\Public\Documents\Software.txt

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table –AutoSize > C:\users\public\Documents\Software.txt

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table –AutoSize >> C:\users\public\Documents\Software.txt

Settings for a good-looking Xfce4 installation:

• Style: Greybird
• Icons: Elementary Xfce dark
• Window Theme: Arc-dark

Here are some extensive notes on setting this up.

Notes on setting up Kanboard on Ubuntu.

Sometimes you have to make a program start automatically at boot. Here's how I do it with systemd.