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Building Something Scalable: Security

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is part 2 of the Building Something Scalable series / experiment: Security. Umm why are you talking about security? Security is part of being scalable, simple. Think about it. If your security is setup decently your servers will ignore […]


Hosting: where to go, where to go

Monday, August 18th, 2008
So after about 2 months on slicehost, I have yet to finish setting up my server. It seems to be the busy season and I’ve only been able to finish my local servers. So to recap I know have a media temple box and a slicehost box. Now to further complicate the situation after much debate […]


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 […]


Good phpbit wise tutorial with easy to remember way to count binary

Monday, June 16th, 2008
Jim Plush has written a pretty decent overview of php’s bitwise functions. My only complaint is I wish he’d also used even numbers so readers could understand flag systems, but you can’t win them all As an added bonus, he’s included a comic that explains binary counting in a way you’ll never forget ( If only […]


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: […]


MythTV DVB Setup Guide and Notes on Building a Linux Storage Server

Monday, December 10th, 2007
found the following series of tutorials via the myth tv site. there a few years old, but still have valuable information. MythTV DVB Setup Guide DVB is Digital Video Broadcasting, a set of digital television standards with a large amount of industry support. There are several advantages to digital TV. Programme guides and flexible digital services are much […]


yailmtp - yet another i love mt post

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
yes i know : I post way to much love for mt, but hey their that good. I’m in new mexico for us horse nationals broadcast, and contacted mt just to make sure we were still good on bandwidth, and because of some conflicts in cpu stats in top. as always they went beyond. the tech (sorry […]


inspiration: 30 Dirty Designs

Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Grunge, distressed, wicked worn, whatever you call it there are plenty of great designs that use this technique. Its an anti-dote to the clean cut web2.0 look, here we present you with 30 of the very best…. check it out: » 30 Dirty Designs Powered by ScribeFire.


sounds cool: swx data format for Flash

Friday, September 21st, 2007
SWX is the native data format for the Flash Platform. SWX RPC is a remote procedure call protocol encoded in SWX. It’s simple enough that you can get up and running with it in about five minutes. SWX RPC is perfect for building mashups (with easy-to-use APIs for Flickr, Twitter, and others), mobile applications (Flash Lite […]


windows media drm removal update

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
If your having problems getting FairUse4Wm, Mirakagi, or commander, you can get it here: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3811318 tutorial for FairUse4Wm, Mirakagi, and how to use. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/07/20/crack-and-remove-windows-media-video-wmvasf-and-audio-wma-drm-license-acquistion-in-wmp-player-with-fairuse4wm-13-fix-2-and-mirakagi/