FFmpeg contains a number of tools to record, convert, stream and play multimedia content. The following tutorial will guide you through the installation of FFmpeg on either RHEL 5 or CentOS 5. I have chosen running on CentOS but it shouldn’t make a difference either way. Lets get started! Adding the DAG repository The first [...]
In some instances you may find that the default configuration of VIM has the backspace key disabled. Like many others I expect to be able to delete characters right-to-left like most other text editors. Unless you are doing some very minor editing, it quickly becomes a hassle to use the delete key. Luckily there is [...]
Since 2004 and for what seems like forever in the technology world, the Linux kernel version has been holding steady at version 2.6.x. The first two numbers were unchanged for nearly 7 years and became largely irrelevant. The third number is the actual version of the kernel. The fourth number accounts for bug and security [...]
Fedora 15 has been officially released and becomes the first major distribution to use the GNOME 3 Desktop by default. Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. New Features GNOME 3 Desktop – GNOME 3 [...]
FreeNAS 8.0 has been officially released after being in beta for the last few months. For those of you that are unfamilliar, FreeNAS is a NAS (Network Attached Storage) server OS based on FreeBSD 8.0 supporting wide range of technologies. This releases is the first major release since development of the project was taken over [...]
In an unforeseen move Microsoft announced that it will officially buy Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. Skype will now form the new “Skype Microsoft Division”, with Skype CEO as its as president. As the dust settles from this announcement many questions remain unanswered. What are their intentions? What is their business plan? And most [...]
ASCII is a 7-bit character set containing 128 characters and stands for the “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”. It was designed in the early 1960′s as a standard character set for computers and hardware devices. It contains the numbers from 0-9, the uppercase and lowercase English letters from A to Z, and some special [...]
Intel announced a very important piece of semiconductor news in many years: the tri-gate transistor. The redesign of the 2D planar to the 3D tri-gate transistor is a fundamental change and will bring about big savings in efficiency and power consumption. The tri-gate transistor is being produced starting at the 22nm manufacturing node and will [...]
Google Chrome is an awesome browser and there are a few tricks that you should learn that make it that much better. Some of the coolest and simplest are text highlight for searching and navigation. Both of these tricks will save you an unbelievable amount of time, and they are only but a couple of [...]
The iPod shuffle is a great little device but unfortunately it is buit to work with iTunes and comes with an almost undecipherable file system and database. Apple’s motives are clear here, buy a Mac and use iTunes. Fortunately for us you can save your money as there are a variety of ways to sync [...]
