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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]