by Jason L Froebe on September 23, 2009, 5 comments
I think a lot of people have been struggling with mass converting of videos for the ps3… I’ve been searching for a way to mass convert my videos (mostly podcasts) to play on my Sony PlayStation 3 over the wire with Mediatomb. For a long time I’ve been using a hodpodge of mp4box and mencoder [...]
by Jason L Froebe on November 14, 2008, 97 comments
Here’s the scenario: You ssh to a remote server with your login and either sudo or su to another user to run some application that uses a X Windows front end. There is a firewall between your desktop and the remote server that allows only ssh connections (port 22). When you run into the error [...]
by Jason L Froebe on November 15, 2006, no comments
If you don’t want to mess around with windows scripting and you just want to get the job done, well, the easiest method is sometimes the not so obvious… use smbclient! It’s part of Samba (no, not the samba style of music). I’ve created a very simple script to automate smbclient. It assumes that the [...]