Linux DevOps blog

Re-encoding movies in Powershell with ffmpeg Lately I have collected some media that uses the AV1 codec.

Checksums and deduplicating on QNAP / Linux I have a QNAP NAS where I copy over the content of my phone every now and then as a backup.

Subtitles using ffmpeg New in ffmpeg 8.0 has been the inclusion of Whisper (a project by Open AI) that allows you to transcribe audio (in video files) to subtitle files.

A log function for bash So if you are making scripts in bash, it’s sometimes useful to print debug information to the screen.

Adding GeoIP alerting to your SSH logins If you ever look in your server logs, I’m sure you’ve seen the steady stream of failed SSH login attempts.

Doing generic foreach loops in C While doing some work with linked lists, I looked into making an iterator loop.

Wildcard SSL certificates for VDX.nl NOTE: VDX has introduced two-factor authentication for their DNS services.

Why ChatGPT is dumb as a brick, but it doesn’t matter Everybody will probably have heard of ChatGPT by now and those without a programming background have been wowed by the ‘almost lifelike’ interface.

Logging Linux CIFS and NFS traffic in Zabbix The entire script can be downloaded at the end of the article, so no need to copy/paste.

Using gawk interactively to query a database In my previous post I showed you how to install a JBDC client to access a MaxDB database.