Streaming Video

I’ve come across some streaming video software that works really well for me. Here’s what I use to stream to various devices. Home Server –> Mac –> StreamToMe Home Server –> iPad –> AirVideo Home Server –> PlayStation 3 –> PS3 Media Server

January 21, 2012 · 1 min · Shane Cunningham

Back to Wordpress

A few months ago I switched my blog over to Tumblr. I liked Tumblr for the most part, but the lack of control finally got to me. So, I am back to using Wordpress. I’m also using a VPS instead of shared hosting I used on my first Wordpress blog. To import my Tumblr blog into Wordpress I used Tumblr Import 0.5. When I tried using it I kept receiving an error stating there was a connection problem with Tumblr. From what I found with a few Google searches this is a very generic error. I finally found something worth trying - turn my custom .com domain that I used with Tumblr, off. That fixed the problem and Tumblr Importer successfully imported my Tumblr blog into Wordpress. ...

January 13, 2012 · 1 min · Shane Cunningham

How to Tweet your Nagios alerts

I don’t know how truly useful this is, but it’s kinda cool just for the geekiness. I installed this on Ubuntu Server 9.04 running Nagios 3.1.2. You will want to create a Twitter account just for sending these tweets. Setup a new account and go to https://dev.twitter.com and login with the Twiiter account you will be sending tweets from. Next, create a new application. After that you need to create Access Tokens for the application, you may have to refresh a bit to receive the tokens. ...

December 13, 2011 · 2 min · Shane Cunningham

Had to share this… telnet to miku.acm.uiuc.edu enjoy.

Had to share this… telnet to miku.acm.uiuc.edu enjoy.

December 1, 2011 · 1 min · Shane Cunningham

CentOS and locate

The following install and daily cron database update need to be done to get locate working.

November 26, 2011 · 1 min · Shane Cunningham

Sublime Text 2

I’ve been trying out this new editor and like it so far. Once again I needed to delete a bunch of empty lines, found the following that worked. Find Select regular expression Search for ^$ Find all, delete

October 27, 2011 · 1 min · Shane Cunningham