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Digitalising Home Movies on Ubuntu Hardy with a PVR-150
I had a need at home to convert some out VHS movies to digital so I purchased myself a WinTV-PVR-150 MCE. This would enable me to play video from a VCR, outputting via a SCART cable which split into...
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Converting Access to mySQL
One of those joys within computing which we come across is the need to convert legacy data to a new shiny format. My current task is to convet a legacy Access database to mySQL so it can be accessed...
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OpenSG Browser Plugin
Well the summer has finally arrived, and I’ve finally got around to publishing this on the research groups website. It is a small application making use of the Qt4 browser-plugin API to provide an...
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KVM snapshot backups with qemu-img
I noticed that a new feature had been added to qemu-img which allowed for copying a snapshot out of a qcow2 image to become it’s own qcow2 image. This would allow me to make live snapshots of my...
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Reinstalling everything on Ubuntu
So I finally made the mistake which happens when your playing around with sudo and manually deleting development libraries, I manged to delete the entire contents of /usr/lib Luckily a co-worker was...
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CLI onliners: Changing my email address in multiple files
Just sharing a one line I’ve used to change the domain for my email address throughout the various source code files I’ve contributed to at work. First of all I get a list of all the files which match...
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RMS Talk
I went to the Richard Stallman talk tonight on `Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks’ which was held at Sussex University. I must say I was impress, I was entertained for the 2hr...
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Android remote for Banshee
Ever since I got my Android phone I’ve been looking at ways for it to control my Ubuntu based HTPC and my Yamaha AV reciever. My current setup uses Mythtv on Ubuntu, however I have issues with...
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Ubuntu and Android for whole house audio
During the summer I took the opportunity to play with the Sonos music system in a local hi-fi store. I was very impressed with the idea of been able to play back my collection of digital music in...
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MythTV DVB udev rules
Recently my tuner cards have been swapping the IDs assigned to them by udev which has caused MythTV to miss some recordings (it was attempting to record HD content on an SD card) This is easy to solve...
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