Category Archives: linux

How to create and use Flash video metadata to add cue-points with flvtool2

By | Published: December 8, 2006
Adding cue-points allows you to spice up your flash videos created with FFMpeg. Adding metadata to a FLV will allow you to introduce cue-points that have their own metadata that can be display when the cue-point is reached or let you jump to that cue-point. In the following tutorial you will learn how to add [...]
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Creating Flash Videos Using FFMpeg

By | Published: November 26, 2006
One of the hardest parts about doing video on the Internet in the past has been knowing what video format to use. With the rise of video sharing sites like youtube the answer these days seems to be Flash video. It is very easy to create Flash videos and display them using FFMpeg and a [...]
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Installing Beryl and The Latest Linux NVidia Drivers

By | Published: November 9, 2006
I finally kicked my 64 bit install to the curb and am now running my AMD 64 desktop box in 32 bit mode. I decided that I had had enough of random crashes and having to compile things special every time I wanted something new. Having just upgraded from FC5 to FC6 on a couple [...]
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Fedora Core 6 on a Laptop

By | Published: October 27, 2006
So after doing my yum upgrade from FC5 to FC6 on a desktop I decided to see if it worked any better than FC5 on my old Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. FC5 wasn't bad on this laptop but two things always bugged me: 1) the ATI driver didn't work out of the box at anything [...]
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Upgrade FC5 to FC6 with yum

By | Published: October 25, 2006
Now that Fedora Core 6 is available it is time to upgrade those old crusty FC5 installs. To upgrade from FC5 you can follow these steps: You may be able to skip this step but I did a yum update on FC5 first to make sure everything there was up to date and worked before [...]
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Xen on a Mac mini

By | Published: August 16, 2006
A few days ago I read this article on how to put Xen on a Mac mini and though of the Mac mini colo. Now you can get even more machines into the same small area. The article talks about using Xen to not only run Linux but windows as well. You could have a [...]
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Monitoring Bandwidth Usage for a Xen node

By | Published: August 13, 2006
After my last post on limiting bandwidth usage on a Xen node I thought I would follow up with how to monitor the bandwidth usage of a Xen node.
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Limiting Bandwidth Usage on Xen Linux Setup

By | Published: August 6, 2006
Xen seems to be gaining speed these days and has a lot of useful features for those who want to resale or otherwise split a single box. Now that you have your Xen system set up you may be interested in going farther with bandwidth limiting. The hardest part of setting up bandwidth limiting is [...]
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Making screencasts with Linux

By | Published: July 26, 2006
After my post about capturing full page screenshots with firefox I started wondering if there was a way to do screencasts using Linux. It just so happens that you can. There are a couple different options if you want a pure movie of your desktop but I was more interested in a flash version. I [...]
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