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Posted in General on Jun 11th, 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.
Usage is [...]
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, [...]
Posted in General on Apr 12th, 2009
I recently had some fun and games upgrading PostgresSQL on my Gentoo box – I was running 8.2.7 and needed 8.3.x for it’s support of ENUM types.
After some googling I found this blog which explained how to do it. There were a few extra steps for me, however, so I though I’d repost my findings [...]
Posted in My Blog on Jan 8th, 2008
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.
