I just got home from a very impressive Massive Attack concert. I have to say that this show totally blew me away. The sound quality, the light show, the paragraphs on the LED wall, the band and all was an extremely uplifting experience. They played, among the older classic song, a couple of new ones [...]
I had to spent way too much time the last time to set up ImageMagick and Ghostscript together that I simply jump right in so you don’t have to waste time on this, like I did. Creating thumbnails and images from a PDF is one of the most used features within Razuna. But the other [...]
I have to admit, I love databases. To hold data in a central place and be able to hook up any application from wherever you are to it, is just convenient to say the least. But there are moments I wish that vendors would “follow” a standard. I guess, when it came down to paging, [...]
My two other posts on FFmpeg entitled “Installing ffmpeg on CentOS 5” and “SELinux with ffmpeg” already explained in deep how to get FFmpeg up and running. Unfortunately, today one of our servers just reported a plain: ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libfaad.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when [...]
I run into a nasty issue the other day with “alike” directories in my web application. That is, I had a copy of a “WEB-INF” directory called “WEB-INF–”. While my web application did not bother with copy of the WEB-INF directory, Tomcat threw all kinds of errors in the catalina.out log file. Also, I had [...]
My favorite choice for running a Linux Server is CentOS, since it is based on the RedHat distribution you can rest assured you will get a top notch enterprise offering and stability. As with all things “enterprise” the priority is on stability and security and not on the latest code releases. This works 99% of [...]