After the upgrade to 10.2 i’ve ran in a know Flash bug and now i can see youtube only in black and white, i’ve searched the net a bit and i’ve found that’s a common problem. The cause seems to be a combination of Flash 10.2, a recent YouTube change and the users graphics cards and […]
I’ve received from Paolo Proni the slides that he presented at the ignite session at codemotion in Rome. I thank Paolo and i gladly publish this short presentation that introduces the concepts behind the design of Easy Driver. You can download the pdf from here. What’s Codemotion ? For four years running, Javaday Roma has […]
FFmpeg can be considered the Swissknife of audio and video applications, with many options and possibilities. You probably already have it installed on your computer as a dependency of a program you use to watch videos or listen to music. In this article we will see some use from the command line without using graphics […]
In these days I have seen in a somewhat more detailed way collectd, an excellent tool for collecting statistics on various aspects of our Linux servers. From Wikipedia: “collectd is a UNIX-daemon which collects, transfers and stores performance data of computers and network equipment. The acquired data is meant to help system administrators maintain an […]
Today I’ll show you two tools to be used int the terminal to monitor your network and the active connections: iptstate and pkstat IPTState IPTState is a top-like interface to your netfilter connection-tracking table. Using iptstate you interactively watch where traffic crossing your netfilter/iptables firewall is going, sort by various criteria, limit the view by […]