November 2017
Monthly Archive
Welcome to the Vancouver technology entrepreneurship scene
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 30 Nov 2017 | Tagged as: British Columbia, meetings and conferences, Vancouver
Welcome to Vancouver, B.C. You want to get involved in the entrepreneurial technology startup “scene” here? That is wonderful. Here is my current list of activities and organisations that form good entry points into the entrepreneurship community in Vancouver. Check them out. Participate in what interests you. Ask at these events for further suggestions. Enjoy!
Note that I am not an authority on the totality of entrepreneurship in this area. I am just an ordinary participant. This is my worm’s-eye view. It’s probably incomplete. Perhaps others will post in the comments the wonderful events and orgs that I missed. But this at least will get you started. Continue Reading »
When I run “ffmpeg” in the background, how do I prevent “suspended (tty output)”?
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 04 Nov 2017 | Tagged as: robobait, software engineering
I recently had a problem, “When I run ffmpeg in the background, how do I prevent suspended (tty output)?”. I solved it. Here is my solution, in the hopes that it will help others seeing the same problem.
I have a sh script which calls ffmpeg on several files. When I try to run this script in the background, redirecting output to a file, the job starts but then immediately suspends:
% bin/mp3convert.sh path/a/b &> ~/tmp/log.txt & [1] 93352 % [1]Â + suspended (tty output)Â bin/mp3convert.sh path/a/b &>