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MythTV and the Playstation 3: current state
So I've had a week or so playing with the PS3 and MythTV. I just posted this to the Myth user list, but I suspect some of the readers here would be interested in how it's going. I'm attempting to use…
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MythTV and PS3: problems with formats
Michael Fox has commented on the reasonable UPnP client in the PS3 and its interactions with MythTV, and I think he's helped me work out why I've been having some problems. It seems Myth is recording…
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MythTV and PS3
After my recent hardware woes, I've had a little more success getting MythTV back up and running. I bought another cheap Dell workstation to act as my new Myth server. After a little fiddling, it's up…
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IBM PSU not standard
Following advice from Graeme and Grant, I bought and tried out an ordinary ATX PSU to solve my PSU problem but unfortunately it hasn't worked out. It fits in reasonably well, with three of the screws…
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Chutzpah is, Dutch edition
Chutzpah is... being a racist, Islamophobic, populist Dutch politician who calls for the Koran to be banned, then complain that being refused entry to a country is an affront to free speech. In a rela…
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Having a bad time with hardware
Got home this afternoon and tried to turn my desktop machine on, and got nothing. Looking up the diagnostic lights the Dell manual says "System board failure has occurred." Not good!
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Is this some standard PSU?
So the power supply on my MythTV server died last weekend with a bang. I'm hoping it didn't take all the other hardware with it, but first I need to get a replacement PSU in there. One nice thing abou…
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Pro-censorship Morans
You really couldn't make this up. The pro-censorship brains trust has descended on article about a death threat received by an anti-censorship campaigner. SALLY of TOOWOOMBA Posted at 12:54pm today PO…
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Amazing London snow photos
Westminster and snowman, by Pablo Godoy There's some amazing photos coming through on Flickr of the snow in London. Those of you in London, looks like loads of fun! Enjoy the time off work, those of y…
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Why Windows will never be secure
While common software applications require that you disable the privilege escalation functions, Windows will never solve its security issues. The concept of running as a low-privilege user, while usin…
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Fixing a laptop cooler
Our laptop had some problems with heat in the recent spate of Summer temperatures. I pulled it apart and gave it a vacuum. Sure enough, lots of dust and a fair few dead cockroaches. To prevent a recur…
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Beer's Estate Marrickville
I managed to find a poster for the original sale of the land our house sits on from 1891 in the National Library of Australia's catalogue. $35 later and I'm the happy owner of a CD with a ridiculously…
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Explaining to an 8-year old
I've been babysitting my niece today and we got to watching a Goodies DVD I have. After getting through three episodes on one disc, she insisted on watching the South Africa episode. Now The Goodies a…
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All Tomorrows Parties Cockatoo Island
On Saturday we went to the All Tomorrow's Parties festival on Cockatoo Island, curated by Nick Cave and the Bad Seas. Loads of fun and it was certainly nice, for grumpy old man, to be at a festival wi…
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Do Not Call means just that
We've received two telemarketing calls from the Police Citizens Youth Club soliciting donations in the last week. Being a charity, they're legally excluded from complying with the government's Do Not…
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Google Reader recommends WTF?
Google Reader has a pretty good idea of what I read, so WTF is it doing suggesting a V8 Supercars feed to me? Hopefully it'll learn the error of its ways when I click "No thanks".
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Legal music downloads also compete with easy
The major record labels seem to have finally worked out that downloads are the future, that DRM will never work and that people will pay for high-quality music downloads. I've recently been buying a f…
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Sydney Festival First Night 2009
We went along to the Sydney Festival First Night last night, along with a few hundred thousand other Sydneysiders. I don't think it was quite designed to cater for the numbers they got, as moving arou…
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Our Nick, improved
This poster around the corner from our place has seen Nick somewhat altered. Fortunately, we have tickets for the Saturday gig. It's gonna be brilliant!
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Mobile broadband over Bluetooth with Ubuntu 8.10
I've been intrigued since upgrading to the latest Ubuntu release where NetworkManager has a shiny new "Mobile Broadband" tab. This is something I've wanted to get working for a long time. I don't want…