* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass helps a reader find scriptable command line tools for combining Quicktime movie segments * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter helps a reader deal with a bogon issue
* Combining QuickTime movie segments
By Steve Blass
Q: Where can I find scriptable command line tools that can combine multiple QuickTime movie segments?
A: The QTCoffee package provides Macintosh software for manipulating QuickTime files from the command line and includes a tool named catmovie that can be used to combine movie segments. Catmovie can be used to create pointer movies that refer to original files, or it can be used with the self-contained command option to create self-contained movies by combining original files.
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* Bogon bogosity – Dealing with a bogon issue
By Ron Nutter
Q: For several weeks now, several employees at my company and some of our customers have been reporting problems with getting access to our Web sites and e-mail. The only common thread is that they all use the same ISP, a local cable internet provider by the name of Insight. No other customers or employees have reported this same problem with any other ISP. To me, this would indicate an ISP level problem but I dont have anything that would concretely confirm that. I have tried talking to their technical support and finally got to someone in technical support who kept saying it was a Bogon problem. What is Bogon? Do you have any suggestions?
A: You are not the only reader to have reported this same issue. After doing a little digging, I found out something interesting. Insight recently changed the ISP they were using to connect to the Internet. For some time, they had been using AT&T and had been giving out a 12.x.x.x address to their customers. After the provider change, the IP range being handed out to Insight internet customers changed to a 74.x.x.x address range.
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