Archive for July, 2008
The Annoyance of Video Compression
This is probably going to be a bit of a rant. After having spent the last few hours playing with trying to get TVersity 1.0 RC1 to properly read and transcode video I captured using a Plextor ConvertX/Intervideo WinDVD Creator 2.. its pretty straightforward video, it captures at 720×480 and compresses using Divx 6 (6.8 […]
Apache and MySQL Authentication
One of the things that has bugged me over time is how annoying Apache’s usual file-based passwd files are to manage and deal with. I don’t change the configuration very much as a result. adding a new user is tedious, as I never remember the syntax to pass to the utility to create the file, […]
Firebot: Scheduled Downtime – Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
This Wednesday, the server that hosts firebot will be down for several hours (during the afternoon/evening EDT) for planned maintenance. This, of course, means that firebot will be offline and not available for your bug watching, tree burning, and factoid requesting pleasure. Thanks.
