Archive for the tag 'Linux'

Jun 11 2009

Scheduled PostgreSQL Database Backups

Published by nick under General

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. [...]

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Jun 09 2009

Stream video in FLV format over HTTP using VLC

Published by nick under General,YSTV

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 [...]

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Apr 12 2009

Getting Postgresql 8.3.x on Gentoo

Published by nick under General

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 [...]

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Jan 08 2008

Video Encoding

Published by nick under My Blog

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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