Francos Blog

Open source video editing? You betcha.

Well at last I am doing full DV HD video editing on my linux desktop. It is *NOT* adobe premier pro, but it works for me. YMMV!

On my spanky Ubuntu Lucid 10.4 64bit,(and on Karmic too) I installed a bunch of great stuff:
First, lets install Openshot. It is weak on compositing or frame by frame editing, but it does some pretty awsome effects and makes inskcape your title editor. Also if you master out wuith it, will do Vimeo, youtube and flicker and picas video al in HD, yup, very nice, but you need some extras

sudo apt-get install inkscape libavformat-unstripped-52

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Installing FLASH in Ubuntu 64

While mp3 and other audio and video formats have become relatively painless in the last few version of ubuntu with Lucid the easiest yet that I have seen in the Ubuntu family, Flash and Flash plug ins seems to be getting worse. I found a great link and a script will make this quite easy to do:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1358591&highlight=howto+64+bit+...
BUT, It made log in to download the script. I didnt like that, so I tried something else, I installed ubuntu-restricted-extras instead. That gives me flash and java at the same time

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Quick and dirty iso rip on Ubuntu or on any Linux

The trick here is to know what device file on linux is used as your cdrom/dvdrom drive, then its a simple matter of:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/cdrom_image.iso

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How do I Increase the memory available to Drupal in a hosting environment.

This is something I have to do frequently so I am posting it here so I dont have to search for it!

Increase PHP memory limit (4 methods)

The one I use most is to use my php.ini file or do it inside the drupal settings.php file.

settings.php:

ini_set('memory_limit', '96M');

php.ini:

memory_limit = 16M

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Sys admin tools on linux

I found this in the google cache and so I copied it, no author, sorry whoever you are. It used to be on the http://www.moolux.org/ website.

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Fixing weird apt-get errors in ubuntu

This bit of code seems to solve the problem when it occurs:
sudo su
apt-get clean
cd /var/lib/apt
mv lists lists.old
mkdir -p lists/partial
apt-get clean
apt-get update

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SLD Cookbook

From the Geoserver Blog....

SLD Cookbook -

Styling map layers in GeoServer can be challenging. While there are some ways to craft map layers without ever needing to look at Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) code, there are some who don’t want an intermediary and want to code with SLD directly. For those, there are few options:

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