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Convert AVI to 3gp with ffmpeg

6 Comments Posted by on June 19, 2008

Ok, I wanted to put some music videos onto my Sony Ericsson K530i so they had to be converted to .3gp with the AAC audio codec. After a lot of googling for GUI tools, I found WinFF. Looked like a great tool, but I got the error “unknown codec ‘libamr_nb’” while trying to convert files [...]

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Setting up Services on your UnrealIrcd IRC Server [SurrealServices]

1 Comment Posted by on April 26, 2008

Related to: Setting up an IRC Server on your Desktop [UnrealIrcd] Here is a tutorial to set up IRC Services on Debian/Ubuntu (may work on other distros with appropriate changes in a few commands). You’ll also need a mysql server running. you can get it by typing this in terminal (Since I want the services [...]

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Setting up an IRC Server on your Desktop [UnrealIrcd]

3 Comments Posted by on April 20, 2008

This Tutorial helps install an IRC daemon on Your desktop or server. I’m using an Ubuntu 7.10 desktop, but most of the instructions here may work on any distro. We’ll be using UnrealIRCD. You can download the stable version Here or get the svn version with the following command. svn co svn://svn.unrealircd.com/trunk/unreal3 UnrealIRCd if you [...]

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dnsmasq – Browse the Web Faster

4 Comments Posted by on January 9, 2008

Heres how you can cache DNS to make browsing faster. I am using Ubuntu and dnsmasq can be found in the repositories. (You’ll need to add Universe repository) You could also download dnsmasq here. Do this if you’re using Ubuntu/Debian” sudo apt-get install dnsmasq now edit the file /etc/dnsmasq.conf and add the following listen-address=127.0.0.1 Then [...]

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