I noticed after I upgraded my desktop from Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” to “Gutsy Gibbon” that Firefox’s “Send As Link” had stopped working, but it took me until now to take a look at why. I love “Send As Link” - unlike Internet Explorer it fills in the email “Subject” line correctly, and sends the URL […]
Trying to get Gnokii working with a Nokia 3310/3315? Works fine for one message, but then refuses to respond?
Since I am the only person on earth to have ever received this error message, I thought I had better blog about it.
I’ve been playing with AJAXTerm, which could potentially be very useful. It’s a web-app that takes HTTP requests, and pipes them through to SSH. In short, you could log on to an SSL-secured […]
So, I have a Linksys WRT54GL router, and I’m running the Tomato operating system on it. Tomato is brilliant; it looks nice, it’s easy to install and configure, and best of all it’ll run the router in Wireless Client mode. This turns the router into just another wireless client, connecting to my existing access point […]
A couple of people have asked for the web resources I used to build my MythTV box. Here are the main ones:
MythTV on Ubuntu:
http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu.php
This is a complete how-to on how to get MythTV set up on Ubuntu from scratch. It’s genius.
Mr Parker’s also built a net-booting EPIA MythTV front-end - i.e. no hard drives, and […]
I’ve been playing around with Trixbox (a VOIP PABX) and Ekiga (a VOIP soft phone). It worked (mostly), but Ekiga was taking forever to cause the other phone to ring. A little packet sniffing showed that Ekiga needs an SRV DNS record to help it find the SIP server. Since I’m running DNSMasq (a combined […]
By default, MythTV creates odd filenames for the MPEGs it records. Garry Parker in his Ubuntu MythTV installation guide mentions a script called “mythlink” to create meaningful filenames (well, symbolic links) for your videos. Sadly, it’s b0rked in the current version of MythTV. I’ve hacked it about a bit, and come up with one that […]
I gave up on LinuxMCE. Seriously, I’ve tried the old Ubuntu 6.10 install (and had it fail to download packages), I’ve tried installing it from source (it tries to change directory to one that doesn’t exist), and I’ve tried the V1.1 Beta2 version (again, it fails downloading packages). Each time was on a fresh OS […]
So, I’ve been looking at LinuxMCE - as I mentioned earlier - and have started getting the hardware together. I was planning on buying another Antec Sonata II - one of which I use in my games PC, and have been very impressed with - but I caved and bought an Antec 900, hoping the […]
I though this paragraph in a BBC article on Japan’s Aging Population was interesting:
Utako Ohoe, 82, still lives in her own flat. She says she does not want to become a burden on anyone else.
“I want to continue living here by myself,” she explained. “I don’t want to become dependent on my daughter. I want […]