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Continue reading →: Grokking Gstreamer
Well as I’m kind of someone who is knows how to use Play Doh trying to build the Empire State Building, but in a week or so of hacking and understanding Gstreamer. Here are some of the conclusions: Wow, this thing really has no documentation. There is a huge command…
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Continue reading →: Linux benchmarking
Well now that we are trying new Linux machines from VMware Fusion to Zotac, it’s interesting to see how fast they really are. Phoronix seems like the top hit and their 4.x suite is available as a Debian repository sudo apt-get install phoronix-test-suite How easy is that. If you want…
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Continue reading →: Updates on Zotac CI540 Nano and SSDs for a silent $600 desktop
Well that Zotac box is sure nice at $370. It is only 1.5GHz, but ultra quiet and we paired it with a screamer drive (the SanDisk Extreme Pro for $299) and 8GB of Crucial SO-DIMM memory for $68. The only wish is that it would have 16GB or two slots…
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Continue reading →: Sudoers hacking
If you are constantly have to type your password in due to a long installation (like a few hours), then here’s the trick. Add the following line with ““ sudo visudo You should use visudo so that it checks your sudoers file and makes it work, but to…
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Continue reading →: Free certificate
Paying $200 for an SSL certificate which is really just a set of numbers does seem ridiculous. Now there is a free service for this called Let’s Encrypt (http://letsencrypt.com)
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Continue reading →: There is happiness…Full frame A9 early 2015
The mirrorless E-mount A9 will have all the things needed to be “PRO”: Worlds fastest autofocus in normal light conditions Close to 50MP FF sensor weather sealed body Can’t wait to see this!
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Continue reading →: Google Hangouts and Skype on Linux
Talk about mysterious, if you actually want to use this particularly on VMWare Fusion, there doesn’t seem to be much documentation: Google Hangout starts and looks to see what active /dev/video[0-9] are open. That is, if you want this to work, your webcam needs to be active or any synthetic…
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Continue reading →: Mac and iOS forgets mail passwords
This is a really annoying bug that seems to happen very regular on some systems. It looks like this has something to do with mail transport bugs and the wrong error being reported according to Stackexchange I’m running Mac OS 10.8.1 and have a (personal) Gmail and a (work) Google…
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Continue reading →: Useful for DNS hacking
When you are trying to migrate DNS Servers, http://viewdns.info/dnsrecord/ is really useful. Let’s you look at what is up there so you can easily recreate it and then do the cut over. To remind everyone here is what you have to do. It’s a three step process; Figure out who…
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Continue reading →: Windows Schannel and Dark Hotel
Wow more things to worry about, but the net is : Update your Windows system now. There is a 19 year old bug found in their SChannel security layer. IBM folks discovered it and allows software you download to take control Dark Hotel. This is a targeted attack where people…
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