life of a linux multimedia nerd … it’s fun
I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks now that maybe it’d be good to post some stuff about multimedia on Linux again. Good for you that is, o snap!… Read more »
Category: Gentoo
znurt.org cleanup
So, I finally managed to getting around to fixing the backend of znurt.org so that the keywords would import again. It was a combination of the portage metadata location moving,… Read more »
gentoo, openrc, apache and monit – proper starting and stopping
I regularly use monit to monitor services and restart them if needed (and possible). An issue I’ve run into though with Gentoo is that openrc doesn’t act as I expect… Read more »
freebsd, quick deployments, shell scripts
At work, I support three operating systems right now for ourselves and our clients: Gentoo, Ubuntu and CentOS. I really like the first two, and I’m not really fond of… Read more »
multimedia reference guide: x264
It seems a little weird to me to post something on my blog that I already posted on our blog at work, but whatever. I figured it’d get more visibility… Read more »
digital trike
So, I don’t normally talk about work on my blog, just because … hey, who wants to work? I’d rather surround myself with Reese’s cups and watch Roger Ramjet. I… Read more »
git and acl effective mask
I have run into this funky problem with ACL and git at work, and I cannot for the life of me figure it out. I’m not sure if it’s a… Read more »
wrapper script for disc_id
I wrote a little wrapper script for disc_id tonight, available here. disc_id is a little binary that ships with libdvdread, or at least, it used to in older versions. I… Read more »
web media frontend
I have always wanted to tweak my HTPC frontend quite a lot to add extra functionality, but the entry barrier to learning a GUI language has been way too high… Read more »
znurt and planet larry expected downtime
O hai. Both Znurt and Planet Larry are going to be going offline here … pretty soon for a day or so. I’m moving hosts again, and should have things… Read more »