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I love mplayer and mencoder, they just do everything I want to be able to do with video / audio. (more…)

Those End of the Film Songs

Here is a set of what you might call an eclectic mix of songs found playing
at the end of feature films over the credits. Perhaps there are others worth adding? (more…)

Dokan, (meaning clay pipe) providing sshfs access to linux file shares (server) from Windows systems (client)

I am always looking for good ways of accessing linux file system shares from windows boxes, as I have to help my less technical windows users on my LAN gain access to everything being served up from my linux servers. If samba doesn’t float your boat, and getting nfs to work on Windows is just too hard, there is another way; dokan, which runs as an executable on Windows systems (W2K,XP, Vista) to provide mounted network style shares via ssh. Here’s how.

This howto is aimed at an internal LAN, so low security measures are followed. I am sure there are ways to lock things down as tight as you want (probably from the linux end), but this is beyond the scope of this howto, I just want to get you up and running! (more…)