Archives for the ‘linux’ Category
By admin • Nov 12th, 2008 • Category: how to, linux
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I recently ran into a feature / bug / something while delaying audio for an application with sox. The delay effect appears to only delay a maximum of 3 seconds. Hopefully this will save someone else from scratching their […]
By admin • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: linux, reviews, web hosting
I haven’t had much time to post, or do anything fun in the past few months, but I’m currently working on a nginx, php, apache, varnish, memcachedb, mysql setup distributed between two servers. Why does this matter? Because I decided to upgrade my linode so I could slice up my resources into a nice little […]
By admin • Sep 27th, 2008 • Category: linux, rants
Finding that your network connection / internet seems to be moving much slower than it should?
First check your connection, then make sure ipv6 is not enabled.
Hope this helps someone
By admin • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: linux
Open and edit : /etc/named.conf
change:
zone “domain.net” { type master; file “domain.net”; };
zone “domain.net” { type master; file “domain.net”; allow-transfer { 192.168.1.1; common-allow-transfer; };};
Replace 192.168.1.1 with the ip to allow transfers from
By admin • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: linux, tech
Most of us love / hate / use ffmpeg. Well meet your other new best friend: Sox
From the site:
Welcome to the home of SoX, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing
programs. SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc.)
command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio
files in to other formats. It […]
By admin • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: linux
I got a new ipod nano today after my old one got killed by a soda… yeah crappy luck.
opensuse 11 supports an ipod out the box, with one twist: If you ipod has no songs on it, nothing can use it. Exaile, banshee, gtkpod, etc will all complain or crash when you try to use […]
By admin • Aug 17th, 2008 • Category: linux
Its been over a month, so i figured its time to do an after action report.
Simply put I still LOVE openSuse. Of course theres a few things that need work, but overall its a wonderful distro that I strongly recommend.
Ok so for a bit of back story I’ve been using windows since i think 3.1. […]
By admin • Jul 17th, 2008 • Category: linux, rants, reviews
I’ve been on opensuse for about 3-4 days and all i can say is awesome. simply put its the best linux I’ve ever used desktop wise.
Fyi - this is an opinion post, no stats, facts, etc.
Look
From jump opensuse has ubuntu beat look and feel wise, yes even mint linux. I use gnome and seriously its […]
By admin • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: linux
Ok so in the last 2 weeks I’ve written 3-4 ffmpeg installation tutorials (centos, ubuntu, source, ffmpeg-php). Yes I know I haven’t posted any of them. Today I ran across this
www.sherin.in/ffmpeg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=1
Guess that that link goes to? Yeap an auto installer that installs ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php. So basicly all the searching I’ve had to do to […]
By admin • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: linux, php
After thinking I was merely going crazy I’ve found out why php doesn’t seem to support all image functions. Ubuntu’s php5-gd package uses an older version of gd. So uninstall php, and build from source
More on this issue: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/74647
