Transcoding old videos
I have a fairly large pile of old videos I’ve accumulated over the years, and as I’ve been running out of space on my NAS have started looking (again) at tra...
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Adobe CQ Tar PM data file rotation bug
At $WORK this week we encountered an extremely strange and annoying set of bugs in older versions of the Adobe CQ CMS system – specifically, in all CQ system...
IPv6 clients hitting this blog
When I moved this server to Rackspace in April (and blogged about it) one of the primary motivations was so I could provide IPv6 support.
Ubuntu desktop
I installed Ubuntu on my new desktop in February. Here are some thoughts on the experience after three months.
Upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 - uxlaunch is gone
Late last evening I made the questionable decision to start upgrading my xbmc Ubuntu home theatre box – note: don’t start upgrading anything late on a weekni...
Moving from AWS to Rackspace
I’ve moved my little cloud instance from Amazon AWS to Rackspace, which includes hosting of this blog. It was a simple process, but I thought I’d write a few...
IPv6 on my home network
I decided to finally setup IPv6 on my home network, for now running in parallel with IPv4. My DSL ISP (egate) has had IPv6 support for a long time, I receive...
Tiny Tiny RSS
In my last post I was thinking about what to do now that Google Reader is headed for end-of-life. As a quick interim step, I installed Liferea on my Ubuntu d...
Git and libcurl with older OpenSSL connecting to newer OpenSSL - error 1112
There’s an interesting edge condition we ran into at work last week around git connecting to a repo over HTTPS.
Changing Ubuntu Server 12.04 console video mode
I’m running Ubuntu Server 12.04 as a virtual machine on my high-res work laptop, and got tired of the tiny 640x480 console window, so tried to figure out how...