Nov 3, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Rip DVD’s Using VLC and HandBrake on Windows

Introduction Handbrake for converting video files. But when working with it on Windows you had to get a program called DVD43 that would unlock your DVD so you could make a backup of the video. The only problem is that it doesn’t work in Windows 7 + 8 64-Bit or other 64-Bit Windows. I have found that Handbrake and VLC’s libdvdcss will make this to work and here is how. Step 1 – Download... read more

Nov 2, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving EMC and Qlogic Fiber WWN on RHEL

Introduction So you need to add storage to a RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux) server and the storage guy has asked you for the WWN.  The question next is how do I get the WWN off my server? So how do we get QLogic and EMC WWN’s on RHEL. It is a lot easier than one might think. Let’s move forward and get the WWN information we need! Qlogic First identify your installed or recognized, this is... read more

Oct 28, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Manage Hidden files and Directories from the command line in Windows

How To Manage Hidden files and Directories from the command line in Windows Introduction Managing Windows hidden files and directories from the GUI is easy, managing from the command line is a bit more challenging, but not difficult. in this post we will cover the different ways to handle many different tasks using the command line. Windows files/folders have a special attribute called hidden attribute.... read more

Oct 27, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How to List the TDEV Members of a META on VMAX

Introduction So you have created a META and have come to a point where you need to know what TDEV are a member. Either need it for reclaiming of space or any other option.In this post we will explore several commands to get the information you are looking for. Get META Members from a META First list all the meta’s that are in use on the VMAX and look for the device you are interested in getting data... read more

Oct 26, 2015 Posted by newlife007

FFmpeg Basic Audio and Video Commands

Introduction FFmpeg is a very powerful and great command line tool used for performing various conversion operations on audio and video files. FFmpeg is absolutely free to use. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. In this post we will be running ffmpeg on Fedora 21 (Linux) to cover some basic commands. Video specific commands Extracting Video While Muting Audio In the command... read more