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Streaming Video Between QuickTime Broadcaster and VLC

By | Published: July 3, 2009
In my attempt to stream live video to my iPhone I ran into an issue with the USB QuickCam I have. Instead of fighting the problem I decided to turn to the iSight camera on a macbook but I quickly found that there isn't a great way to get the video stream to another machine. [...]
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Running Lotus Notes 8 on Linux with newer xulrunner

By | Published: March 2, 2009
I recently got tired of running Lotus Notes under wine because I kept getting meeting invites that I couldn't accept. So I ventured out because I had heard that Notes now had a Linux client and sure enough it does. The install is huge but it went very smooth up until the point that I [...]
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PowerDNS Makes Custom DNS Backends Easy

By | Published: September 14, 2008
I ran into PowerDNS recently when I needed to find a DNS server that would allow me to produce custom responses to domain queries. I needed to have a request for a DNS entry return a different IP depending on some factors in a database and I needed that data to always be accurate (not [...]
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Acrobat Reader 7 and FC6

By | Published: February 14, 2007
I broke down and wanted to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 on my FC6 box to replace xpdf. After installing it from the tar.gz version the acroread startup script bombed out with the error: expr substr 2400000000000 1 After a little searching I didn't find much help so I started looking at the script myself [...]
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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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