• Updating the metadata of video timestamps using exiftool

    I have a Sony a7c and Sony RX 100 M3. Both of these cameras when recording videos seem to disregard the timezone settings and just use UTC time. Whenever I import these videos to digikam which is the software I use to manage my photos, the sorting gets messed up as the times of the videos are not synced with the photos which has the correct local time with timezone.

  • Hosting S3 Static Website using CloudFront with OAI

    An unsecure website is not acceptable these days. If you’re hosting your website using AWS S3 bucket’s static website hosting attribute, its one limitation is that your pages are hosted using http only and browsers will report this as Not Secure. This does not give a good impression to your visitors.

  • Serverless Webhooks using AWS Lambda - Part 4

    This is the fourth and last part of my Serverless Webhooks post. You can find Part 3 here where we built the processor application, Part 2 here where we integrated SQS and Part 1 here where we built the Lambda function handler.

  • Serverless Webhooks using AWS Lambda - Part 3

    This is the third part of my Serverless Webhooks post. You can find Part 2 here where we integrated SQS and Part 1 here where we built the Lambda function handler.

  • Serverless Webhooks using AWS Lambda - Part 2

    This is Part 2 of my Serverless Webhooks post. You can find Part 1 here.

  • Serverless Webhooks using AWS Lambda - Part 1

    In this post, we will setup a service to receive data from an external system.

  • Building a publishing pipeline for static websites using AWS

    Looking at the devops solutions in AWS, I was searching for a project to try them out. This static website came to mind. The goal was to try AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild and CodePipeline to automate the publishing of this static website.

  • Fix the brightness buttons of Asus laptops running Linux Mint

    The solution here was tested on:

    • Asus K401U
    • Linux Mint 18 Mate
    • Nvidia GeForce 940MX
  • Changing vim default colorscheme

    Steps on changing your vim default color scheme

  • Facebook (build 132866) downloading forever

    I got this build notification update from Facebook today - Facebook (build 132866).

  • How to root your Samsung Galaxy S2 using Linux

    Forget Odin. Get Heimdall.

  • Compare hashes when verifying files via md5

    Given a file and its md5 hash, a quick way to verify the file is to use grep to compare the hashes.

  • Trying Fedora 18 Spherical Cow

    Fedora 18, code named Spherical Cow, was officially released last week. It’s time to create a live usb again to give it a try.

  • Fedora 17 failed messages during boot

    Whenever I boot my beefy miracle laptop, I see these two error messages.

  • Soft lockup boot issue due to biosdevname

    Here’s another post PreUpgrade task after my Fedora 15 to 17 upgrade. This one was more serious as it was slowing my boot to a crawl, in fact sometimes boot simply hanged. However, I am not sure if this was really due to upgrading to F17 since my F15 was having boot issues before and I didn’t bother to investigate.

  • Merging and cleaning .rpmsave and .rpmnew after PreUpgrade

    After doing PreUpgrade on your linux box, you may need to clean-up some configurations that were changed by the newer packages.

  • Upgrading Fedora 15 to Fedora 17 using PreUpgrade

    This is the first time I used PreUpgrade and to my surprise, it was flawless. I was able to upgrade from Fedora 15 to Fedora 17 without any issues. That’s one Beefy Miracle!

  • Building wine on 64-bit Fedora

    There are cases when you desperately need the latest version of wine but it’s not yet available in your repo, you can’t wait for the rpm, you need to play your favorite Windows game now *cough* Diablo 3 *cough*, you’re not quite sure how to install it other than the very easy “sudo yum install wine”. (OK, some don’t find sudo yum easy and prefer to go through the Applications -> Add/Remove Software, yada yada, yikes. I do get lost there), and you’re running 64-bit and the game runs better on 32-bit, etc. yada, etc. yada. Then this post is for you..and for me too.

  • Fedora 15 with Gnome 3 screenshots

    Here are a few screenshots of Fedora 15 with Gnome 3 to give you a feel of how it looks.

  • Step-by-step guide on Fedora 15 installation – Part 4 (Final)

    Step 10. Welcome

    • Configuration starts immediately after reboot.
    • Click Forward.
  • Step-by-step guide on Fedora 15 installation - Part 3

    Step 7. Choose default boot OS

    • After your hard disk has been repartitioned and reformatted, the next step is to choose which part of the partition the system will boot by default. The device /dev/sda refers to my hard drive.
    • Since I have a multiboot system (Fedora and Windows) I can see two options, of course I choose Fedora as the default.
    • If you notice, Fedora boot maps to the physical volume vg_georgie_root and logical volume lv_root. This is correct and these are the partitions we created previously.
    • Usually, you wouldn’t change anything here unless you want to add boot kernel options, or you have multiple hard disks, etc. So just accept the default and click Next.
  • Step-by-step guide on Fedora 15 installation - Part 2

    Step 6. Format your disk

    • This is the tricky part. If you are not sure how to partition and format your machine then just choose the default Replace Existing Linux System(s).
  • Step-by-step guide on Fedora 15 installation - Part 1

    The latest Fedora has been released - Fedora 15 Lovelock. Usually I’m not one of the firsts to try out a new release because I don’t want to go through all the bugs. But when I saw Gnome3 and how my desktop would really look cool with it, I decided to give it a try. This post will show you a step-by-step guide (and mostly screenshots, because it is that simple to follow) on doing a fresh install of Fedora 15.