Adobe Flash freezes on full screen

Have been having this problem recently wherein doing a full screen on a flash video freezes the screen. My wife watches movies online occasionally on MegaVideo/Veoh and the problem persists in both as both use flash internally.

While the Flash player is in normal mode, right click on the player and choose "Settings" from the context menu. Remove the checkmark in the box next to "Enable Hardware Acceleration".




Reference links
http://support.mozilla.com/si/kb/Cannot+view+full+screen+Flash+videos
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html

Adcenter keyword: Setting match type

Adcenter is different from other networks as it does not have a special attribute called “match type” on a keyword. Instead each keyword has three bid fields “exact bid (EB)”, “phrase bid (PB)” and “broad bid (BB)”. The keyword match types are determined on whether a bid is specified for that match type. For instance if a keyword has EB=1.5,PB=0.75,BB=0.0 then this keyword is used in exact and phrase matches. This is different in other networks where a keyword has a single “bid” attribute and an attribute to specify match type.

Monitoring Gearman over telnet port 4730

So the only way to monitor Gearman is via doing a telnet to port 4730. The current monitoring supported commands are fairly basic. I could not locate any documentation on the support commands so had to literally look at the code to figure out the supported commands (the below command documentation is copied from the comments in code). There are plans to include more set of commands in the next release.

Command: STATUS

The output format of this function is tab separated columns as follows, followed by a line consisting of a full stop and a newline (".\n") to indicate the end of output. below are the columns shown

- Function name : A string denoting the name of the function of the job
- Number in queue : A positive integer indicating the total number of jobs for this function in the queue. This includes currently running ones as well (next column)
- Number of jobs running : A positive integer showing how many jobs of this function are currently running
- Number of capable workers : A positive integer denoting the maximum possible count of workers that could be doing this job. Though they may not all be working on it due to other tasks holding them busy.

Command : Workers

This command show the details of various clients registered with the gearmand server. For each worker it shows the following info:

- Peer IP: Client remote host
- Client ID: Unique ID assigned to client
- Functions: List of functions this client has registered for.

Any other command text throws a error "ERR unknown_command Unknown+server+command"

sudhirv@sudhirv:~$ telnet localhost 4730
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

STATUS
.
WORKERS
11 127.0.0.1 - :
.
status
.
workers
11 127.0.0.1 - :
.
some crap
ERR unknown_command Unknown+server+command

#### will add more samples in action when I have this thing up and running ####

Installing Gearman on Ubuntu

Gearman is a open source job forking system. We have been evaluating its use in our project to share jobs across components. More info on the Gearman project can be found here: http://gearman.org/.

Here are the instructions on installing Gearman on Ubuntu

wget http://launchpad.net/gearmand/trunk/0.9/+download/gearmand-0.9.tar.gz
tar -xvzf gearmand-0.9.tar.gz

# two missing libraries that found at configure time
sudo apt-get install libevent-dev
sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

cd gearmand-0.9
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

# start gearman
gearmand &

# check gearmand running 
ps auxw | grep [g]earmand

# check germand listening for jobs on tcp port 4730
sudo lsof -i tcp:4730


# errors when starting gearman
Error: gearman: error while loading shared libraries: libgearman.so.1

Solution: `make install` may install libraries into `/usr/local/lib`.  It's possible
 that this directory isn't on your library search path, which will result in an error 
like: "gearman: error while loading shared libraries: libgearman.so.1."  To fix this, 
either add `/usr/local/lib` to `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, or modify `/etc/ld.so.conf` or 
`/etc/ld.so.conf.d` to add `/usr/local/lib`, then run: sudo ldconfig

Extract process attributes

Handy one liner scripts to extract various process attributes. You can add additional attributes to the 'ps' command to get other attributes. Below are some samples

-- Process start hour
ps -eo pgid,lstart,cmd | grep "[p]name" | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d\. -f1

-- Process start minute
ps -eo pgid,lstart,cmd | grep "[p]name" | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d\. -f2

--process start day
ps -eo pgid,lstart,cmd | grep "[p]name" | awk '{print $4}'

command to kill a process group

If pid is negative but not -1, the signal is sent to all processes whose process group ID is equal to the absolute value of pid. The negative pid is specified in this way:

kill -s KILL -- -nn

where nn is the process group ID and may have a range of 2 to 7 digits (nn to nnnnnnn).

kill -s KILL -- -9812753

The format must include the – – – before the nn in order to specify the process group ID