codeblog code is freedom — patching my itch

December 25, 2009

happy holidays 2009!

Filed under: Blogging,Debian,Ubuntu,Ubuntu-Server — kees @ 9:19 pm

Happy Holidays!

Or, as my firewall reported this morning:

Dec 25 04:39:18 firewall kernel: [1054241.000084] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] ABORT operation started
...
Dec 25 04:40:10 firewall kernel: [1054292.072173] raid1: sdb2: redirecting sector 3490144 to another mirror

I guess I’m getting my firewall a new hard drive for Christmas. :)

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December 16, 2009

headache empathy

Filed under: Blogging,Debian,Multimedia,Ubuntu — kees @ 9:20 pm

Run “gstreamer-properties“, click the “Video” tab, change Default Input Plugin to “Custom”, and add this Pipeline:

v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! vertigotv ! ffmpegcolorspace

Now when Empathy video-chatting with a friend, you can give them a headache!

Or give yourself a headache by trying it directly from the command line:

gst-launch v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! vertigotv ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink

Feel free to replace “vertigotv” with any other or more of the video effects listed in “gst-inspect effectv“.

Here’s me with edgetv ! vertigotv:

Edge Vertigo

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December 9, 2009

install from official repositories only

Filed under: Debian,Security,Ubuntu,Ubuntu-Server — kees @ 10:02 am

As quickly pointed out by Rick, don’t install random software that isn’t in the official distribution archive unless you really know what you’re doing (and copy/pasting commands from a website doesn’t count). You’re just asking to be made part of a botnet.

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