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Peter Andersson
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I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise.
-- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0
29
Jan

Background

In earlier articles I’ve described howto install mythbuntu and configure the backend
In this article I assume that you have a workin Xbox with a quit new version of XBMC.

Download xbmcmythtv

The xbmcmythtv is not being maintained anymore so the version downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv/ does not work with newer versions of MythTV.
However, it is possible to grab [...]

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Part1 can be found here.
Start

To configure the newly installed MythTV system run:
mythtv-setup
The settings will we be default if nothing else is mentioned.

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25
Jan

After my hard disk crash, I’ve been struggling a couple of nights to get my MythTV system with a Xbox frontend working.
Tonight I managed to get every piece together and it works. It has been frustrating and quite painful to get it working, Google has been my friend,

A MythTV installation consist of many parts that [...]

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23
Jan

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 system.
During boot my TV card was detected and [...]

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23
Jan

The new features include:
Support for 64bit OS
op5 Monitor 4.1 will support the 64bit versions of RedHat and CentOS.
New improved performance graphs
The new feature provides automatic graphing for all graphable performance data (based on pnp4Nagios). This means that you will get graphs for most of your hosts and services with no effort.
Smarter Navigation
Op5 have improved [...]

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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.

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20
Jan

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 but it [...]

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19
Jan

Peter Andersson is one of the most common names in Sweden, so if you want to track the correct Peter Andersson it can be hard.

Today I got the following email:
Dear Peter,

I am writing on behalf of the German publishing house, VDM Dr. Müller. In
the course of an Internet research I came across a link to [...]

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Filled Under: Uncategorized

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 WARNING [...]

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14
Jan

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 but who [...]

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Filled Under: Geek stuff, Hints
13
Jan

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/

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12
Jan

For a former Novell employee it is sad to look at the official Brainshare webpage. In my opinion Brainshare is a very good conference with a lot of technical interesting seminars. I have attended two of the Brainshare conferences, one in Salt Lake City and one in Barcelona.

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Filled Under: english


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