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I realized that I have been somewhat neglecting my blog of late. I have a very valid and perfectly acceptable excuse however – I have re-addicted myself to WoW. World of Warcraft has, of course, become a perfectly acceptable reason to miss work, ignore your spouse, neglect your kids, and make new “real” friends that are approximately the size of my pinky.
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Today’s post is just my thoughts on my most recent class + exam. The RHCE is considered by many people to be one of the best (and most difficult) Linux-based certifications that an SA can get. For that reason, I have desperately wanted this certification for quite some time, but I could never afford the cost.
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Looks like ATI posted their official 9.10 drivers yesterday. As always you can grab them here. These are in the official release notes:
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In the last article regarding firewalls I gave you the links and some basic information regarding three different firewall options. I had intended to try all three and let you know how it went but I was enjoying messing with the Endian firewall too much to lose it! Well, I recently got bored and decided what the hell – time to try something new. So I went to the next in the list: pfSense.
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A while back I wrote a script to convert my dvd collection into AVI files on my computer, which included the ability to auto-crop the black borders. I recently decided I wanted to start using the Matroska container instead of AVI. I again tried to accomplish this with GUI tools – many of them I evaluated previously such as WinFF and HyperVC and I also tried Avidemux and HandBrake GTK. WinFF/HyperVC wouldn’t run the encode for some reason when I selected the auto-crop features, and HandBrake GTK would not run at all on Karmic Koala giving GTK errors. Avidemux allowed me to set all the settings, and it worked – but the audio was invariably a-sync’d. I couldn’t find any settings with MP3, Vorbis, or FAAC that would properly sync with the video I was trying to convert.
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