Jun
16
2009
This weekend saw a sudden surge of spam comments coming my way. Strangely though, the comments seem legit. No links to various websites, not random text – nothing. Just a few sentances that are so generic they seem relevant. I let the first couple through – It wasn’t until I noticed i had comments from [...]
Tags: blog, spam
Jun
11
2009
I’ve just started using PostgreSQL as my database of choice for a few projects, and needed some way of scheduling backups. As a result I’ve created the following small bash script that will backup a given database and put it in a gzipped tar archive. You can find the script in my svn repository here. [...]
Tags: backups, Linux, Postgresql
Jun
09
2009
A while ago I rebuilt the video streaming solution at YSTV so that it used flash video. Not wanting to pay for Adobe Media Server, I opted to try and create my own, as it were. I knew that VLC could stream video so I set off to get it to stream flv. Fortunately for [...]
Tags: flash video, flv, Linux, streaming, Video Encoding, vlc, YSTV