My MythTV systems root disk crashed so I need to reinstall it. I will keep my progress posted in this blog. The Backend hardware: IBM Desktop PIII 800Mhz 512 Mb memory 120 Gb disk Hauppauge PVR-350 The frontend hardware is an old Xbox, with XBMC. I downloaded Mythbuntu and installed it on the MythTV backend […]
The most critical system in my home crashed today. The root disk of my MythTV system give me strange sounds and the BIOS does not detect that the harddrive is connected.
I have a modern laptop with 4Gb memory so in theory I should gain from running 64 bit Linux. I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop x86_64 and had som problems with: Java based webpages Flash I spend several hours with google and tested several versions av java and flash plugins. I managed to get flash running […]
To get output to an LCD display 1-wire can be used. This article will describe how to that and include an example to get status from Nagios or op5 Monitor on the display. I use it to get a quick overview how my DataCenter is doing. When the LCD display is flashing something has either […]
A friend of mine did send me a desperate email, explaining that her 1½ year old son in less then a second managed to tilt her windows desktop to the right on her work laptop. After a simple google search I stumbled into the following link: http://internetducttape.com/2006/08/01/stupid-windows-features-monitor-display-turns-sideways-or-upside-down/ The solution was simple after finding this link […]
If you are the lucky owner of a PlayStation Portable, Congratulations. Unfortunatly Sony has created a broken machine. It cannot play videos in full resolution with the builtin player, if you do not buy extremely expensive UMD discs. One way of playing full resolution movies is using the PMP Mod player: http://jonny.leffe.dnsalias.com/
As everybody else I’m dreaming of getting rich. I live in Sweden, the country with the highest taxes in the world so getting rich by working is impossible. One way of getting rich is winning a lottery and probably the only social accepted way of getting rich in Sweden. One way of getting rich is […]
I got guitar Hero III as a birthday gift. To make it run I had to install XP SP3 on a Lenovo T60p. It was a long time since I used windows and I had some real problems just install it: Around 1½ hour just copy the files into the HD even if XP claimed […]
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I have a Ericsson P1I and sometimes I use it to connect to internet. I found an excellent how to get it running at: http://bayanijuan.blogspot.com/2007/09/howto-connect-to-internet-using-se.html It will work with several phones and many Linux flavors.
