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Joining Windows 7 to a Samba Domain

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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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 me, [...]

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Show SVN revision number in PHP

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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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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Oh Noes…

Woodstock’s over :( It’s always the way with things like that – i spend ages looking forward to them, and then they come and go far too quickly for my liking. On the upside, it was very very fun. I’m pretty sure Woodstock was the most enjoyable OB i’ve done wit YSTV yet. It does [...]

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….Need Sleep….

Ugh, just got in from Woodstock here on campus at 2am. An hour ahead of what I expected, but I’m still half dead…I really should go to bed instead of doing this….so that’s what I’m going to do….maybe a more meaningful update tomorrow or something….if I can be bothered.

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Woodstock 2007

Wooo! Looking forward to this. It’s happening on Vanbrugh Paradise and looks like it’ll be good fun. 12 Hours of Music all in aid of Charity :)
YSTV Will be covering the event so i’m going to be exceptionally busy from the beginning of week 9, but it’ll be great :D

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