FFmpeg is a wrapper program for a lot of video and audio libraries. It allows the user to easily encode, transcode, whatever you want to call it, video to other formats.
It runs on many main-stream platforms: BSD, Linux, Windows etc. Source and binaries are available.
Populair formats to get your video’s in are: MKV (720p and [...]

Due to Apple’s new 64-bit environment Snow Leopard, some third party add-ons to might no longer work. For example Adblock for Safari only runs if Safari is reduced to 32bit running mode. I think this is ridiculous, so I’ve been looking for an alternative.
Glimmerblocker is a proper alternative to Burgersoftware’s AdBlock, and it runs in Safari’s [...]

Back at the 64-bit mark. Last friday Apple released it’s latest operating system: Snow Leopard. After dumping IBM’s PPC 64-bit, and switching to Intel, computing has returned to the Macintosh! So back to the past?
Big difference
All standard programs are ported to 64-bit, Safari, and Finder run in 64-bit modus. It’s noticeable when you first start your Apple, [...]

I was trying to get Zend Framework up and running with the PDO_MYSQL extension. I’m doing quick development on my local Apple machine, with MAMP 1.7.2 installed. MAMP is an easy to use Mac Apache Mysql and PHP platform but it has it’s drawbacks. Installing additional extensions is really difficult.
A while back i’ve replaced my [...]

My server has lm sensors capabilities, and I’m running Cacti. So it would be nice if these two could be combined. Eric A. Hall has written an article about it, and given some xml config files to get it working.
If you are going to run it on your system I recommend an article about lm_sensors in [...]