Category: Linux

  • Backup server that plays nice with everyone….

    Just came across this article over at Lifehacker that outlines how you can build your very own cross platform backup server for FREE…….more information on Restore’s own website. These are some of the key features that set RESTORE apart from the competition: Browser Based- Access your RESTORE system remotely from anywhere using the internet. This…

  • TrueCrypt does OSX

    TrueCrypt has finally released version 5.0 of it’s fantastic File/Volume/Disk encryption software and with that introduced the Mac World to “True” Encryption. Now I know all OSX junkies out there are trying to point out that OSX comes with FileVault (for free), but FileVault only encrypts the users home directory….that’s all. TrueCrypt gives you a…

  • Open Source lovin’ for your Server….

    Continuing with our coverage of “Free your Apps”, here is how you can free your Server (and workstation) of those expensive (usually useless) so-called Enterprise Applications. BitNami stacks make it incredibly easy to install your favorite open source server software. Application stacks include an open source application and all the dependencies necessary to run it,…

  • Stream your Linux/Windows/Mac Desktop as video using VLC

    A buddy of mine (thanks Mike) showed me this today. There is a input Access module in the newer versions of VLC (0.8.6+) called “screen” which makes this possible. To stream your desktop to another machine (ip address: 192.168.1.2 in this case) just use the following command in Linux (sorry command line only):vlc screen:// :screen-fps=30…

  • How to live transcode and stream HDV to MP4 using VLC and Linux

    I’ve been trying to figure out a way to do this on the cheap for a long time and I finally figured it out today. This process allows you to grab HDV from a HDV Camera via firewire, feed it into linux, transcode the 25Mb/s mpeg-ts stream to a 4 Mb/s mpeg4 stream (inside a…

  • Getting Samba to work properly with SuSE’s Firewall…

    Here we are again and I have to sadly say…..yet another OS (which I also love) that does not do what it promises. I know that you can do some major iptables kungfu under linux through command line, but when SuSE/Novell tries to sell you Yast as a graphical admin interface they should atleast check…

  • Tablet Puppy….

    For all the Nokia N800 fans out there……this is what happens if Nokia was sponsoring your High school :-). Seriously though, this is a fantastic example of what kids (and adults) can do using the opensource N800 platform for robotics control. Now who’s gonna stick one of these things on a gas powered RC car…..Dibs on the…

  • OSX Webmaster special: Shared webserver, bad umask settings, group permissions and filenames with spaces…

    Okay so this all started with our users not being able to share files on our webserver. We use SSH only for upload/download and interactive access (ie: no ftp). Through trial and error we found out that the default umask (under OSX Server) for sftp uploaded files are 0033 (ie: rwxr–r–) and directories are 0022…

  • is TV freed?

    Well, I’ll leave this one to you. You can decide on it’s Kosherness. The application is called TED and it can find all sorts of TV episodes you might have missed. From the homepage: ted can find episodes of any TV show you like to watch. Just add your favorite shows to ted and he…

  • Manage your Projects FREE….

    You all know my dislike for Microsoft and their products. Whenever possible I’ve tried to get away from having to use their software. Here is another opensource product that allows us to do our thing without them. From their overview page: OpenProj is a free, open source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. The OpenProj solution…