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linux: openSuse compared after some time

Sunday, August 17th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]


At last ffmpeg / ffmpeg-php installation for any linux distro

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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 […]


install build tools on centos 5

Monday, July 7th, 2008
When you first install centos 5, you’ll notice your unable to build from source (make / make install) On ubuntu theres a package called build-tools that contains everything you need to build from source. On centos you install them individually : yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake rpm-build make which libtool Or install everything you’ll need […]


Bye, Bye ubuntu

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
So I’m now pretty much fed up with Ubuntu. It’s a great os, but I’m having nothing but issues with it. First were the wireless issues. For some reason ubuntu dropped the connection every 20min-2hours. I eventually got that fixed. Next we’re the repo issues. If you pull a file from the main repo it should work, […]


Install yum and subversion on media temple dv 3.5

Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Just upgraded one of my clients servers to dv 3.5. dv 3.5 uses centos 5 so when you install yum you’ll need to use that version  rpm -Uvh mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5.noarch.rpm Subversion is now included in the developer tools package. Login to your account center and install developer tools from there. via hello, hellm 


How to: Install electroserver on media-temple dv and similar centos setups

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Before you start Before starting anything you should be sure that you have the developer tools package installed. If your not sure, then you don’t. No worries: submit a request to install the developer tools package and you’ll be ready in about 45min to a hour. Get started first login as root next download electroserver: wget www.electro-server.com/downloads/builds/ElectroServer_4_0_4_linux.rpm next install the rpm: […]


update: flash media server on media temple / centos

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
came across this issue on a fresh fms install (installed by someone else) ./shmrd: error while loading shared libraries: libnspr4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory yum install *nspr will grab the seamonkey library, no idea why a browser files are needed, but whatever it works now


media temple: install ffmpeg on media temple dv or similar centos setups

Sunday, June 24th, 2007
the how to covers installing ffmpeg on media temple dv and similar centos setups. I’m going to use yum. Please note that you’ll still need to compile ffmpeg to reinstall it with shared libraries *note : when i started this tut, yum seemed to be the easiest method. due to the fact i like a challenge, […]


centos rpm repo i use often

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
this is more for reference. I use the follow centos repo quite often, might be helpful to others http://centos.mirror.vpslink.com/centos-4/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/


answer: running FMS on CentOS

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
the search : running FMS on CentOS, fms not working on centos answer : http://elsid.net/2007/06/23/media-temple-install-flash-media-sever-2-on-media-temple-dv-or-similar-centos-setups/