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Oct 04 2009

Joining Windows 7 to a Samba Domain

Published by nick under My Blog,YSTV

This is a problem I ran into at YSTV recently. We run a Samba 3 domain and have recently upgraded our Edit PCs to use Windows 7. Unfortunately Windows 7 out of the box will not join a Samba domain, saying that the “Domain does not exist or could not be contacted” after asking you [...]

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Oct 04 2009

From Hate to Love in a little over a year…

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It has been an interesting year, and those of you who know me should certainly agree. This last year has been my Industrial placement year as part of my Degree – All fun and games you might think. Mostly, you’d be right – aside from the daily struggle of commuting to Leeds every day. It’s [...]

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Jun 16 2009

Spamtastic!

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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 [...]

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May 15 2009

Show SVN revision number in PHP

Published by nick under My Blog,YSTV

I recently had a need to display the current svn revision of a php based website on the home page. This is particularly useful when working on a website as part of group and you have a central dev server than runs a copy of the latest code. It allows you to quickly and easily [...]

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Mar 03 2009

High Quality h264 MP4 Videos with ffmpeg

Published by nick under My Blog,YSTV

I’ve recently been doing some research in the area of producing High Quality MP4 files with the h264 codec. Of course, my program of choice for encoding to this format was ffmpeg with the libx264 codec. I just wanted to share some of my findings, in particular a few example commands for creating these videos.

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Jan 12 2009

Transact-SQL – Auto Increment Primary Key

Published by nick under My Blog,Work

If like me you learnt SQL using MySQL, and then gone into a job and found yourself using Microsoft’s SQL Server, you’ll probably be as irritated as me to find that Transact-SQL does not feature the ‘AUTO INCREMENT’ keyword that MySQL provides. Fortunately, the solution is far easier here than it is in PostgreSQL. All [...]

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Jan 11 2009

Windows 7 – A Pleasant Surprise

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After a few delays by Microsoft, I finally got a hold of Windows 7 Beta this morning. I must say…I’m pleasantly surprised. It certainly does seem much much better than Vista was – even at the Beta stage!

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Nov 28 2008

Updates and new features…

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Right. So i finally decided it’d be a good idea to update my wordpress installation – V2.2 was a little out of date! I must say though, V2.6.x is suprisingly different – but in a good way. The admin panel is so much nicer to use. Looks and feels better too – full of all [...]

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Nov 09 2008

Time for a change…

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The keen eye among you may have noticed a slight change in this website. Not only that, but what i’m doing has changed a bit too….

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Jan 08 2008

Video Encoding

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As you may have noticed I’ve recently started adding video to my website which has added a whole new set of things to do. Hurray. Anyways…just thought I’d share exactly how my video is encoded etc.

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