Day: February 3, 2010

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Like many people, I went out into the great choas known as Black Friday after a deal. In my case I was focused on obtaining an Olevia 237T 37″ LCD television being sold at Target for the low, low price of $549.00.

After getting it home and plugging it all into my MythTV system, I ran into […]

MythTV

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In order to get the updates for Ubuntu to take MythTV to 0.20.2 you need to add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse After doing this run the following commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

In addition to the MythTV updates a few other things should […]

MythTV

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For those who don’t know, Zap2It Labs stopped offering free channel data for the community. A paid for solution Schedules Direct has stepped up to the plate with a fairly inexpensive solution. In order to use it you need to update your MythTV installation. The 0.20.2 release of MythTV supports SD.

Gentlemen, start your updates, because at […]

MythTV

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One of the annoyances I have discovered with MythTV and Fedora Core is the inability to eject the optical drive in a default install of MythTV.

MythTV

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After recently upgrading my MythTV system, I set to editing the metadata for my video collection.

Everything worked fine when editing through the regular interface, but when attempting to edit the data through the MythWeb interface, I noticed that entries where the title started with double-quotes, the field in the edit screen was empty.

MythTV

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On December 18, 2007,  the latest release of the Blade Runner movie will be out.  The Ultimate Collection is going to come in a scaled down imitation of the briefcase that Deckard uses in the film.
It is going to have not only the new edition, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, but also includes the original […]

Movies, Science Fiction

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From the Ars Technica story:

A Michigan man is being prosecuted for using a cafe’s free WiFi… from his car.

The Michigan law apparently bars you from accessing someone else’s network without their explicit authorization.

Free Speech

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So I ran across a story on Slashdot about how ABC/Disney had a blog shutdown over the posting of some audio clips from a radio-station affiliate in conjunction with the blogger’s letters to the radio station advertisers over their tacit support of the comments and views of the talk radio hosts on the station.

The Slashdot post linked to a blog posting on the Daily Kos: State of the Nation that had more details.

Blogging, Cyberspeech, Free Speech

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Finding the right case for you iPhone can be a challenging and somewhat frustrating process.  Not only do you have to contend with the sheer number of case types, but you also have to balance the needs of your particular listening and working environments.  If you are like me you may have found that you […]

iPhone

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For those of you who are in the iPhone developer community or just are just geeky enough to pay for the developer program in order to get a sneak peek on your friends, I thought I would let you in on some information I received from Pandora concerning problems with the Pandora Radio application and […]

Technology, iPhone

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This is the first post using the WordPress app for the iPhone. It’s a pretty nice application, but it would be better if it supported the rotation feature to get the horizontal keyboard.

I do like the fact that you can add photos.

iPhone

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As I keep browsing the App Store to find more interesting applications, I find my self wondering exactly what criteria Apple is using to place the various applications in each category.
It’s not the actual application category or sub-category that I find strange, but the generic categories:

All iPhone Applications All iPod Touch Applications All Free Applications

New

iPhone

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This morning, as I have for the couple of days, I checked the App Store in iTunes for new applications for my 8GB iPhone 3G.  I noticed that when I sorted the new applications by release date that the NYTimes application showed a release date of July 16, 2008.  I thought that it was odd […]

iPhone

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So I just finished Prince of Persia on my PS3.  I decided that I would go and purchase the $9.99 Prince of Persia: Epilogue DLC from the PSN (PlayStation Network) store so that I could have some more PoP game time.
Turns out that I can’t purchase anything using my Bank of America debit card, because […]

Gaming, PS3, Technology

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Many of us have played online games. Even more of us play them with the intent of socializing during the game with our fellow players.

However, there is another group of online gamers, the mute ones.

Gaming

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So several months ago I was in Atlanta visiting some friends (Hi, Justin!) and got hooked on his hackintosh Plex box.  Now, I wanted to run it on a Mac Mini, instead of a hackintosh, but the application was great.  Since then I have purchased the Mini and had a blast getting Plex working and tweaked to do what I want.

If any of you out there running Plex have noticed that there seems to be quite a few instances of Python running when you have Plex up, here’s why: each plugin that you have runs under it’s own instance of Python.  Here’s what the development docs have to say:

Each media server plug-in runs in its’ own process, in a separate Python instance. This ensures that plug-ins can’t interfere with each other, or with the operation of the server.

So there you have it.  Essentially, each plug-in is sandboxed from each other as well as PMS.

If you want to see this in action, just shell into (or open up Terminal) when running Plex and execute the following command:

ps -ef | grep Python | grep -v grep | grep "Plug-ins"

You should see one entry for each of the plug-ins that you have installed.

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So I just finished Prince of Persia on my PS3.  I decided that I would go and purchase the $9.99 Prince of Persia: Epilogue DLC from the PSN (PlayStation Network) store so that I could have some more PoP game time.
Turns out that I can’t purchase anything using my Bank of America debit card, because […]

Gaming, PS3, Technology

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While working on a method to allow the VSU Communications Unit to add or change the stories in the rotation on the main VSU webpage, I ran into a problem that involved a known Safari issue involving file uploads.
I don’t regularly create forms that allow for an upload of a file, however I don’t like […]

PHP

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Recently I had to build a custom form for VSU’s implementation of R25 by CollegeNet.  The form was designed to allow individuals to schedule an event at VSU using our facilities and equipment.  The form is a multi-part form that branches off at the third page based on prior answers.
One of the hurdles in the […]

PHP

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So in the process of applying the new SSL cert here at work, I discovered an issue with the reCAPTCHA service.
The problem was that I was getting errors saying that my forms were only partially encrypted.  This was due to my use of the reCAPTCHA library, which by default doesn’t use an SSL connection to […]

PHP, Security, Web Apps

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I found this really cool moon photo at the AstroMeeting.
I love all the detail that he goes into about taking the photo.

Photography

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A nice post on Amazing Filtered Things shows a whole bunch of photos of nuclear blasts.

My favorite is the one with the observers in the foreground.

Photography

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Google Maps has a cool shot of an SR-71 Blackbird on the deck of the USS Intrepid at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.

Photography

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One of the standard methods of configuring Mac OS X in the enterprise has become known as the magic triangle or golden triangle. This is generally described as a setup involving Active Directory (AD) for authentication of the clients and services and Open Directory (OD) for managing the client preferences.  The triangle comes from the […]

Computers, Mac OS X, Mac OS X 10.5

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While re-loading the OS and apps on my iMac at work, I ran into major issues whilst updating MS Office 2008.  When running the first update, Office 2008 SP1 (12.1.0) I had no problems, however none of the other updates would run.  I kept getting the error “You cannot install Office 2008 Updates on this […]

Apple, Mac OS X, Software

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Lately I have noticed that when browsing the web my external hard drive would spin up when there seemed no need.  I had just given into the mysterious and not concerned myself with this until yesterday.
After a few searches, I turned up a post on Apple’s discussion boards entitled Safari pauses & spins up ext […]

Apple, Mac OS X

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For those of you who are into browser plugins, you may have run across a plugin called Inquisitor.  According to the website, Inquisitor: speeds up your searches like no other

While this may be true after several searches I determined that I wanted to go back to using the default Safari search plugin features instead.  Unlike the […]

Computers, Mac OS X

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Today I picked up one of the new dual-band AirPort Extreme base stations at Best Buy. The reason behind the purchase was so that I could use 802.11n for my iMac and Apple TV while using 802.11g for my iPhone, since this should give me the best wireless throughput for my shared files to […]

Mac OS X, networking

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