Brandon Yap

Playing downloaded H.264 content on an unjailbroken Apple TV 2

H.264 content out there in the wild is often produced using the open source x264 encoding library. This article focuses on playing that content back on your Apple TV 2 in an unjailbroken state. This article presumes you have purchased legal copies of the movies you’ve downloaded on DVD or Blu-Ray and are too lazy to rip them yourself, or are unable to do so due to hardware/time constraints. The Apple TV 2 is not able to playback .mkv files, so we are going to re-wrap the video and audio tracks into an .m4v container which the ATV can playback. […]

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Parallels Panel key update deferral notification

Updated 06/02/2012 For just under a year now i’ve been getting a daily mail from the Plesk daily maintenance script titled Parallels Panel key update deferral notification With the following in the body of the message. Unable to update . An error occurred while processing your key. You can try updating it later. This problem occurs when your license includes add ons for packages which aren’t installed on the system. This most commonly occurs due to the change in licensing of version 10.4 of Plesk. Since Kaspersky Anti Virus (KAV) was introduced into the standard Plesk 10.4 license, everyone’s keys

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WordPress categories not working

I recently encountered a problem where categories on this blog suddenly stopped working. Apparently it’s quite a common problem where both categories and tags stop working. In my case it was only categories. Tags continued to work perfectly. As it turns out, the cause of the problem was a plugin called Advanced Permalinks. I had installed this when changing permalinks from date based to just /%postname%/ as the performance issues associated with this type of permalink was fixed as of WordPress 3.3. So, if you have problems with just categories not working, try turning off Advanced Permalinks.

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Taking a snapshot/backup of WordPress from the command line on a Plesk server

I quite regularly need to take quick backups of a WordPress installation while working on a Plesk server. Here’s a script I created that will dump the DB as well as backup the WordPress directory where the site files are in. The concept is easy, execution was a little more complicated since Plesk can now store a secondary domain’s root within the filesystem path of it’s master subscriptions domain. How it works The script will query the psa database for the domain id of a supplied domain. Next it will get the www root of the domain using the domain

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