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By brian, on August 11th, 2006 I’m driving back from the local auto-parts store with some new bottles of oil and a new Fan Clutch when I see the all-to-familiar sight in front of me. As I stop for a red light, I notice a red Chevy pickup making a right-hand turn onto my street in front of me followed by a lowered red Honda Civic. Now, I don’t know what triggered the moment prior to my arrival, but the Chevy took that turn extremely slow, nearly coming to a stop. The Civic driver, apparently already enraged, nearly rear-ends the Chevy, then swerves out of control at full throttle with that nasty POS Civic “Oh look …
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By erich, on July 2nd, 2006 A while back, after installing Slackware 10, I was complaining to Brian that Slackware has DNS issues. Well, obviously, because I was the only n00b that was having the issue it certainly wasn’t Slackware. Problem is, I had another server in my garage, a FreeBSD system, but it wasn’t having any issues with DNS.
The problem was, whenever Slackware would try to resolve an address, it would resolve to 1.0.0.0. Any program that tried to resolve, except ping, would get a 1.0.0.0 address. Ping, however, would get a proper IP address associated to a domain name and once the domain name had been pinged, the first program that was resolving …
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By erich, on June 2nd, 2006 Thanks Samir!
So… for a while now… MythTV hasn’t been commercial flagging any shows nor has it been compressing shows.
The log displays “NVR::doAudioThread() This Unix doesn’t support device files for audio access. Skipping???
Other times, when I bother to look, the log displays some hex number when trying to find a codec.
For months I’ve been searching why these error messages are being produced… Finally, I saw a thread on the MythTV forum.
Apparently, disabling oss during compilation (–disable-oss) breaks the Nuppel Video Recorder sound options. So, even if the ‘backend’ doesn’t have sound hardware you still need to compile the source with it.
DUMB!!!!!
I use a dedicated …
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By erich, on May 29th, 2006 Let’s say that you needed to store a large amount of data in a central location (I.E. directory) but the largest drive that you can afford and find for a reasonable price is a 400GB Seagate SATA drive.
Unlike other OSes that I have used, Slackware has an awesome ‘autoraid’ capability that is idiot proof. Believe me! I’m not only the president, I’m also a client!
In four easy steps you too can have a RAID 0, 1, or 5 setup.
Step 1: Use fdisk to prepare the disk
# fdisk /dev/sda # sd just happens to be the SCSI/SATA controller on my system
Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
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By brian, on April 10th, 2006 Like we need another MythTV-Related post. I guess its now so important to Eric & I we have to blog on it though!
Anyway, I’ve had my MythTV system up and running pretty nearly flawlessly for almost 2 months (which works out to 288 recordings in 259 hours and 14 minutes taking up 263 GB of disk space). My system specs are:
Backend
Old AMD Athlon 1.666GHz 256MB Ram Slackware Linux 10.2 300GB SATA Hard Drive (to be upgraded to RAID soon) PVR-150MCE PCI Capture Card DirecTV Hughes Receiver connected via SVideo IR Blaster bundled with the PVR-150 to change channels MythTV SVN r9070 (Backend & MythWeb)
Living Room Frontend
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By erich, on April 2nd, 2006 After trying to troubleshoot some MythTV and system issues this afternoon, I managed to loose my storage raid array. It was really quite stupid. I forgot that you don’t need to make a partition for an md0 device…
For those of you needing further clarification, once a raid array (md device) is created, there is no need to make a partition on it. It _is_ the partition!
When mkfs.jfs /dev/md0 was used, it corrected the ‘partition’ that I created.
So, I destroyed the data on /dev/md0 by creating a partition and then formatting it. No big deal, it’s just TV. Oh wait. The new series of the Simpson’s and Doctor …
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By erich, on March 15th, 2006 This is day two of getting MythTV setup on a backend server. ?I’ve got the front end working on my Xbox.
I’m really getting frustrated with MythTV and Debian. ?From what I have read, Debian is the preferred choice to install MythTV onto. ?Well, Debian has got to be the worst Linux distro I have used!!! ?DO NOT USE DEBIAN… It’s horribly outdated, very clunky, and no one seems to keep the dependencies up to date. ?If you didn’t install something while it was available, you’re screwed! ?Not even Google cache will help!
I can’t believe that the Nokia 770 is based off of this FPOS distro!
Here’s a little …
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By erich, on March 5th, 2006 When Brian was at my house a few weeks ago, he used the maemo ‘flasher’ to enable the R&D mode on my nokia 770. Basically, it allows you to do extra functions that you wouldn’t normally do; such as gaining root.
I noticed that the maemo website had a newer firmware ROM image than what was currently installed on my 770.
Because I noticed some problems with the current ROM image, I decided to update the firmware.
My concern was that if I updated the firmware, I would loose the R&D mode. As it turns out, the R&D mode flag is completely indepentent of the firmware update.
Now my 770 …
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By erich, on January 31st, 2006 there seems to be several blogs and sites that describe how to create swap but few actually give step by step directions.
the nokia 770 is a great device, but occasionally when browsing graphic or media rich websites, the error ‘not enough memory’ is displayed.
to solve this, a swap file is needed.
as root: # touch /media/mmc1/swap # dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/mmc1/swap bs=1024 count=16384 # mkswap /media/mc1/swap 16384 # swapon /media/mmc1
count=32768 can be substituted for a 32 MB swap file…
it doesn’t make processing faster, but it should allow you have more applications open…
By brian, on January 17th, 2006 With Cingular, one could get away with using their “Unlimited MEdianet” data plan ($19.99 per month) to have full internet access (which they try to charge you $44.99 per month for) by simply bypassing their proxy server. Unfortunately, T-Mobile is smarter than that, and forces you to buy their $19.99 internet plan if you wan’t unrestricted access to the internet without using a proxy server. I don’t consider this a down side since its essentially the same price I was paying with Cingular, except I’m no longer breaching my terms of service agreement by tethering my phone to my laptop. Since I didn’t buy a T-Mobile phone (but kept my …
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