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    • Amazon’s Elastic Transcoder is a Great Video and Audio Conversion Option

      Posted at 6:25 pm by Gareth Hooper, on December 14, 2013

      Amazon’s Elastic Transcoder is now primetime and a great option for your video and audio conversion needs, making it easy to convert your video and audio files into multiple formats within seconds very inexpensively.

      Amazon's Elastic Transcoder

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      Posted in Cloud | 0 Comments | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Elastic Transcoder, Amazon S3, Audio File Conversion, Elastic Transcoder, Transcoding, Video file conversion
    • NTP and Reliable Time Sources in a Windows Active Directory Environment

      Posted at 10:00 pm by Gareth Hooper, on December 7, 2013

      We all know the Microsoft recommended configuration for time synchronization in an Active Directory forest; Configure the PDC Emulator in the forest root domain with an external NTP device, whether it be an Internet NTP source such as time.windows.com or an NTP server you have on your internal network such as a Symmetricon. But if you want to know more about the recommended configuration and answers to common questions, read on…

      Microsoft's Recommend Configuration for Time Synchronization in an Active Directory Forest

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      Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged Active Directory, Domain controller, Event ID 14, Event ID 29, Event ID 35, Event ID 37, Event ID 38, Flexible single master operation, Microsoft, Network Time Protocol, NTP, PDC Emulator, Reliable Time Source
    • Amazon S3 – The following objects were not made public due to errors:

      Posted at 4:57 pm by Gareth Hooper, on December 7, 2013

      Have you started getting the error The following objects were not made public due to errors in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)? This article may explain why.

      Amazon S3 - The following objects were not made public due to errors

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      Posted in Cloud | 5 Comments | Tagged Amazon, Amazon S3, Permissions Error
    • Window Active Directory Event ID 2092 using Amazon EC2

      Posted at 4:10 pm by Gareth Hooper, on December 7, 2013

      Are you using Amazon EC2 and can’t figure out why your Domain Controller with the FSMO roles logs the Event ID 2092 (This server is the owner of the following FSMO role, but does not consider it valid)? This article may explain why.

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      Posted in Cloud | 0 Comments | Tagged Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Domain controller, Event ID 2092, FSMO
    • How to embed your own videos on Facebook using the Facebook “Like” and “Share” buttons

      Posted at 9:46 pm by Gareth Hooper, on January 28, 2012

      Did you know you can embed your own Videos on Facebook so that they appear on People’s Facebook Walls, Timelines, and News Feeds? This article will show you how to do it using the Facebook Like and Share buttons, and be able to support HTTPS, and even be able to support non-flash devices such as iPhones and iPads.

      Facebook Video Post

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      Posted in Integration | 0 Comments | Tagged embedding video, Facebook, Facebook Share, Facebook Wall/Timeline, Open Graph protocol
    • Oracle Error PLS-801: INTERNAL ERROR [pklsdlp:dependency verification] – Similar to bug #10024276

      Posted at 4:48 pm by Gareth Hooper, on January 8, 2012

      Oracle Error PLS-801: INTERNAL ERROR [pklsdlp:dependency verification] – Just thought I’d help anyone out there that was struggling with this error when calling a function on an Active Standby.

      Context

      Oracle Database Enterprise edition 11G update 2 running Oracle’s Enterprise Linux 64bit 5.4. One Primary with multiple Active Standbys. Continue reading →

      Posted in Oracle | 0 Comments | Tagged Active Standby, Database, Oracle, Oracle Database, Return type
    • ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer failure – One of the hardest problems I’ve had to resolve

      Posted at 6:57 pm by Gareth Hooper, on December 11, 2011

      ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer failure. This is one of the hardest problems I’ve come across in my career and take us a whopping 16 months to resolve. The issue wasn’t really causing any serious problems on our website, but it was a very annoying problem that we spent a ton of time resolving. I want anyone else experiencing this problem to see the solution, so I posted it on Experts Exchange and this blog. Below is the subsequent question I posted on Experts Exchange, and 16 months later the actual solution. Continue reading →

      Posted in Oracle | 0 Comments | Tagged firewall, Linux, Oracle, Oracle Database, Oracle database Server, Web server
    • How to create your own Facebook Custom Page with your own page icon (Updated 11/04/11)

      Posted at 8:57 pm by Gareth Hooper, on November 4, 2011

      Thanks to Woobox and their iframehost service, ANYONE can easily create their own Facebook Custom Page and even use their own icon if he/she wishes. This article provides a step by step guide.

      How to create your own Facebook Custom Page with your own page icon

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      Posted in Integration | 0 Comments | Tagged custom facebook page, Facebook, Facebook Page, Social Networking
    • Amazon’s CloudFront Content Delivery Network is primetime!

      Posted at 6:31 pm by Gareth Hooper, on September 27, 2011

      Amazon’s CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) supplements Amazon’s S3 service by seamlessly caching your content much closer to your website visitors, thus substantially improving speed and latency, while at the same time giving you the additional option of streaming your content (videos, etc) using the RTMP (Flash Media Server) protocol. Sound complicated? It’s really not, read on.

      Amazon’s CloudFront Content Delivery Network is primetime!

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      Posted in Web Multimedia | 0 Comments | Tagged Amazon, Amazon S3, CloudFront, Content delivery network
    • How to stream video to Mobile / Smartphones – iPhone, Android, and Blackberry

      Posted at 6:04 pm by Gareth Hooper, on September 27, 2011

      Learn how to stream high quality video to a Mobile / Smartphone such as the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.

      How to stream video to a mobile device and smartphone

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      Posted in Web Multimedia | 0 Comments | Tagged Android, AudioVideoWeb.com, Blackberry, iPhone, LimeLight Networks, Mobile, Smartphone, Video
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