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Disabling GDM User List

  • December 21st, 2009
  • Posted in Computers

When upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) I ran in to an issue where GDM began displaying the local user names at the login screen. To maintain a bit more privacy and security I wanted to disable it. It took me a few attempts, but I finally found a command to correct this: sudo -u [ READ MORE ]

Review of the Synology DS209

  • December 19th, 2009
  • Posted in Computers . Review

In late August I purchased the Synology DS209 and I figured I should write a review of my experiences. My “Test-Bed” Synology DS209 (Currently firmware version DSM 2.2-0942) 2x Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB Gigabit wired network; b/g wireless network, n wireless network One Ubuntu Linux / Windows Vista Desktop Two OS X Laptops [ READ MORE ]

Converting H.264 MPEG4 to TS with ffmpeg

  • December 18th, 2009
  • Posted in Computers

When attempting to convert (re-mux) a MPEG4 container H.264 + AAC file to a MPEG2 transport stream I ran in to the following error message using ffmpeg: [mpegts @ 0x(memory address)]h264 bitstream malformated av_interleaved_write_frame(): Error while opening file (The command I used was: ffmpeg -i input_file.m4v -vcodec copy -acodec copy output_file.ts) To address this I [ READ MORE ]

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