Archive for May, 2007

  • Keeping track of ssh connections the colourful way

    At any given time, I usually have one or two Terminal windows open for the local machine and one or two for each server I’m on. This means I have as many as 6-7 terminals open connecting me to 3-4 different hosts. Keeping track of which server the current window is connected to can be [...]

    Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
  • Stream your movies using Flash

    I spent way too much time searching before I found out how easy it is. All you need is ffmpeg (or ffmpegX on Mac) and JW FLV Player. The flvplayer.swf file must be accessible on your website.
    Two steps:

    Convert your AVI/MPEG/whatever to FLV, the format that the Flash player will read:
    ffmpeg -i mymovie.avi -s 320×240 mymovie.flv

    Obviously [...]

    Tuesday, May 1st, 2007