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    MP4 Encode and Streaming


    2011 - 08.08

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    One of the things that I’ve found recently is there is an awful lot of people who struggle to use the FLV file format (yes, that means anyone who invested in something Apple-ish!). For those of us that need to be cross platform, we’ve been forced to change to newer formats.

    Luckily, most browsers now allow for directly embedding content in to the HTML but you’ll need to get it in to the right format first. This script which uses FFMPEG will do just that, and spit out a lovely HTML and MP4 file for you to upload to your site and use instantly.

    Here ya go: mp4encode

    You can play about with the HTML section as much as you like to make it generate pages on the fly. Trust me, this script has been mightily useful. Ok, so the BASH scripting probably isn’t all that and I could tidy it plenty, but it suits my needs and maybe can be adapted for yours!

    BESx Service Start Order


    2011 - 08.07

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    I’m posting this more for my own benefit as I can never remember which order the Blackberry Enterprise Server services are supposed to start in, but here they are:

    BlackBerry Administration Service – Application Server
    BlackBerry Administration Service – Native Code Container
    BlackBerry Mail Store Service
    BlackBerry MDS Connection Service
    BlackBerry Dispatcher
    BlackBerry Attachment Service
    BlackBerry Controller
    All of the remaining services for BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express components

    MS Exchange 2007 Host, File Distribution & Transport Service Failures


    2011 - 08.07

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    That was yet another waste of 3 hours of my life, thanks Microsoft for ruining my Sunday afternoon.

    I don’t know about you, but I have to run a nasty Exchange 2007 set up in my company environment. Awhile ago I did some updates and not until today did I bother to reboot it. Upon doing so I found that the MS Exchange Service Host, File Distribution, Replication and Transport Service Search services failed to start back up.

    After a Hell of a lot of looking about and realising I’ve already done the security certificate ignore by adding clr.microsoft.com 127.0.0.1 to my servers hosts file; I was well and truly stumped.

    Everything looked right, I increased the start up times on the services to 60000 as suggested but to no avail, and it’s just these sodding services.

    Turns out, you need to have .config files in the Exchange\Bin directory for all of the services now and to make sure that they start, they all need this magical directive:

    <generatePublisherEvidence enabled=”false”/>

    Not only that, the services that I needed to edit, some didn’t even have .config files.

    The best source of advice I found was here: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_23823109.html (scroll to the bottom).