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Using generic drives in a Netapp FAS250

May 15th, 2009
We use a retired netapp as a backup with snapmirror. We don’t have support on the device anymore and one of the disks failed. I took the drive out and discovered it was a SEAGATE ST3146807FC. I found this site that said it was possible to flash the firmware on a generic drive for use in a network appliance. Read the rest of this entry »

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vlc 0.9.9a compile on RHEL5/CentOS/etc

May 7th, 2009
The latest vlc seems to compile fine with only a few modest dependencies. Using qt4 instead of wxGTK helps out a lot. I started a fresh rpm this time and didn’t build upon the 0.8.6 spec. You’ll need a fairly recent ffmpeg compiled with —enable-swscale.

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src.rpm
i386 x86_64

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