Paul D. Ouderkirk » Uncategorized https://paul.ouderkirk.ca guerilla sysadmin Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:49:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Laws of Transcoding Video* https://paul.ouderkirk.ca/2011/02/24/laws-of-online-video/ https://paul.ouderkirk.ca/2011/02/24/laws-of-online-video/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:56:58 +0000 admin http://paul.ouderkirk.ca/?p=41
  • Never delete the original.
  • Transcoding always wants more CPU cores than you have.
  • Never transcode when you can remux.

    • *They’re more like guidelines…

    ]]>     https://paul.ouderkirk.ca/2011/02/24/laws-of-online-video/feed/ 0     Words of wisdom https://paul.ouderkirk.ca/2009/11/29/words-of-wisdom/ https://paul.ouderkirk.ca/2009/11/29/words-of-wisdom/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:31:13 +0000 admin http://paul.ouderkirk.ca/?p=38

    I have a stack of deadlines a mile high, but I think I’m also going to sit around with a bottle and just think for a while. The thinking time is essential. At least half of all writing involves just sitting and staring into space. Letting your brain out to hunt down ideas, bringing them back all warm and bloody between its teeth.

    Warren Ellis

    ]]>     https://paul.ouderkirk.ca/2009/11/29/words-of-wisdom/feed/ 0     RAS: Reliability, Availability, Serviceability https://paul.ouderkirk.ca/2009/04/24/ras-reliability-availability-serviceability/ https://paul.ouderkirk.ca/2009/04/24/ras-reliability-availability-serviceability/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:19:00 +0000 admin http://paul.ouderkirk.ca/?p=35 Reliability: parts that tend not to fail
    Availability: when a part fails, there’s a backup
    Serviceability: when you’re replacing a failed part, you don’t need to down the server

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