August 21st, 2008 by Stargazer
YouTube selfmade – Part 2
As promised in the first part, we want to do the stunt ourselves – but as I do not own a copy of Flash nor someone was willing to donate a license, I have to do it in PHP using the MING Library. But let’s stop ranting and get down to a text editor:
< ?php
ming_useswfversion(7);
$movie=new SWFMovie(7);
$movie->setDimension(480, 360);
$movie->Background(0,0,0);
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YouTube selfmade – Part 1
August 20th, 2008 by Stargazer
Have you ever asked yourself how sites like YouTube are working? Why it is possible grabbing videos from there that simple? How it’s built? I guess that’s some questions now. But if you don’t mind, I’ll answer some…
Let’s start with our web browser and hit a video portal. As an example I’m using the following video clip found on YouTube:
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Syslog NG and permissions
March 6th, 2008 by Stargazer
Syslog NG and permissions are a topic on its own – especially if you like to keep your system safe. Imagine, you run a process to parse your syslog files, which you do not want to run as root. Sounds easy?
A first try might be using chmod and chown for adjusting the permissions, but the problem we’re running into is, that syslog-ng corrects the permissions everytime it starts up.
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