Week of 06/29/2008 - 00:00 to 07/05/2008 - 23:59

I returned home to a special surprise today. Sitting on my desk was a sample pack of Rosco Color Filters that I'd requested months ago.

I'd given up on ever seeing them. These beauties will fit perfectly over the head of my flash, so I just got a couple of hundred filters for my flash for free. Can't beat that!

I use Ubuntu servers in various places. I've built a terabyte backup server that reaches out and grabs various files from other servers for a longer term storage using rsync over ssh.

Works like a charm!

Unfortunately I neglected to check it's SSH key's after I installed the security upgrades for Ubuntu after the SSH vulnerability was announced, and the key it was using was invalidated so all the rsync connections were failing.

I really should implement some sort of real network backup system one day so I'd be notified if something failed. In the meantime I've replaced the key pair and everything's working fine again.

Right after installing Ubuntu 8.04, I attempted to install Cinelerra CV but failed miserably.

Seems there were serious dependency problems in their repository. That's now been fixed.

If you want to try your hand at some awesome video editing in Linux using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), just add the following repository and install Cinelerra. They have versions optimized for AMD 64 bit processors, and even more generic 32 bit systems.

deb http://akirad.cinelerra.org akirad-hardy main

I'll try and post a tutorial in a few days.