Finally, we can watch youtube and google video properly without stupid lag (or random browser crashing). Thanks to Adobe and the linux flash team!!
Get it here: Flash 9 beta for Linux.
Read about it here: Penguin SWF.
Having said that, it is still beta..although it’s more than likely much more stable than the current ‘stable’ version.
Yup, Microsoft’s IE7 is finally out. You’ll notice every link here actually goes to www.getfirefox.com instead of Microsoft’s site. This is because there’s no point in getting IE7 as firefox has been able to do everything IE7 does and more, and still continues to. Check it out, it’s far more stable, you can get loads of cool extensions for it and it doesn’t support Microsoft.
Using IE7 also makes it much harder for people like me (web master guy), as we now have to make work arounds for yet another of Microsoft’s buggy browsers that don’t support well known standards.
So anyway, for those of you that don’t know…Laura and I are moving to Australia next year. This means we’ll need to sort out a proper voice over IP solution, but with so many different deals and packages around, what’s best?
I’ve ruled out Skype as it’s non-standard and therefore you’re quite limited on what hardware and software you can use, also I don’t like the idea that other people’s phone traffic will pass through my internet connection.
I’ve recently started using CakePHP, I don’t really understand it too well, but the first thing I noticed was that any static pages you have normally would go under www.site.com/pages. I thought ’this sucks’, so I’ve made a very simple work-around, which isn’t great, but it seems to work.
The idea is that someone will go to www.site.com/something and then cake will look for the something controller, if it can’t find it, it will normally throw up an error.
john-hunt.com has been down for the last 24 hours or so due to me messing around with it’s kernel when I shouldn’t have. Fortunately, I keep backups of everything so we’re back online!
I’ll be moving john-hunt.com to a server which I don’t tinker with soon, so it should never happen again with any luck!
Amazingly, the skype people have finally released a version of skype for linux that actually works. I thought I’d never see the day, but here it is. Yes, it’s still a beta, but a massive improvement on earlier versions which wern’t even worth bothering with!
Download Skype 1.3 Beta for Linux.
Finally, something we can use. Also, bear in mind skype is evil and shouldn’t be used regardless. Use a proper SIP phone and VOIP network.
Apologies for the gallery downtime over the weekend, I’ve been moving around web servers… it shouldn’t be too long now until there’s a proper web address for it, like gallery.john-hunt.com, rather than this: http://83.149.126.39:81/gallery/. You can always use the gallery link on this page (to the right) to access the gallery.
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You can just use http://gallery.john-hunt.com, it’ll always direct you to the right place.
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Gallery is offline completely for the foreseeable future.
After reading a few guides, and a lot of trial and error, I’ve found this script I wrote works pefect every time, just supply you xvid file with the script and it’ll create the vobs.
You need tcmplex, transcode, and dvdauthor.
#!/bin/bash FILE=$1 NEWFILE=`basename $FILE avi`vob rm out.* transcode -i $FILE \ -y ffmpeg \ --export_prof dvd-pal \ --export_asr 3 \ -o out \ -D0 \ -m out.ac3 \ -J modfps=clonetype=3 \ --export_fps 25 tcmplex -o $NEWFILE -i out.