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Convert FLV to MP4 with ffmpeg Howto
I recently needed to convert a lot of FLV files which were H264 encoded to MP4 so that they would play nice on my Mac Mini. Initial attempts using ffmpeg were making it re-encode the entire video which...
View ArticleTomcat: Out of memory – permgen
I ran into a permgen out of memory issue with one of our applications running on Tomcat/Railo and did a bit of digging around. The main answer on the web is: Increase the size of you permgen by adding...
View ArticleRailo DSN Allow permissions
I got asked a question by one of our sysadmins earlier about permissions on railo DSN’s. I had usually just set the permissions in the admin and then copied the resulting values into our puppet...
View ArticleMigrating to WebRTC for Audio
The first embeddable question that Learnosity created allowed an easy and seamless way for audio capture to be included in assessment. We use Flash as it’s is was the only technology that allowed us...
View ArticleHowto find files newer than a specific date using command line
While doing some server admin tasks the other day I needed to find all the files newer than a certain date. Using just the command line tools it was relatively simple but not obvious, so this is a not...
View ArticleSetting up Raid 1 on live Ubuntu system
Note: this originally from howto-forge and copied here for my own reference. http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an...
View ArticleChinese characters not working cfdocument for PDF exports – fixed
I've just spent quite a few hours grappling with an annoying PDF export issue where the font's were not displaying correctly. This is on a CFMX 7 (7.0.2) on Ubuntu Linux system. All the DB storage and...
View ArticleJmeter over SSH Socks proxy
I've been doing some testing recently where I need to connect via SSH server to a remote network to run some load testing. To do this I used a SSH sock proxy like I have previously blogged about. So I...
View ArticleMySQL 5.1 logging changes – Log to DB and runtime config
While browsing around the MySQL site last night I discovered a number of nice new features of mysql 5.1 that relate to logging. These are: Logging to DB instead of log files Runtime configuration of...
View ArticleFlex 3 to Flex 4 Migration Howto
I recently completed migrating an application from Flex3 to Flex4, and for my own reference, here's how I did it. Note – this was done with flexsdk-4.0.0.13875, which was the most recent stable build...
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