Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allows users to edit and manage files collaboratively on remote World Wide Web servers.
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Jun 292009
Jun 212009
This tutorial will explain how to install ATI fglrx drivers in Debian Lenny
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Jun 162009
Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9.
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Jun 052009
Approx is an HTTP-based Debian archive server. It fetches packages from remote repositories on demand, and caches them for local use.
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Jun 042009
This tutorial will explainhow to convert an OGV file to FLV. You will need the ffmpeg audio and video encoder.
Install ffmpeg in debian
#apt-get install ffmpeg
To convert an OGV file to flv file use the following command
ffmpeg -i input_file.ogv output_file.flv
You can shrink the size of the output file using the following command
ffmpeg -i input_file.ogv -s 800×600 output_file.flv
This also reduces the size of the Flash video file.
May 292009
I find bash as one of the most fluid languages. Problem is when ever I come accross people that say they know bash but do not use it because they prefere perl or php. They say they use perl or php because of easy database access and how you can split strings. Today I will explain how to split a string in bash, from a stream even, so you don't have to load whole files. I will use /etc/passwd as an example so you can follow along.
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