Our rainwater tank installation was completed today. Two 2000L slimline tanks to help us do our bit for water usage. The installation was fantastic, the installer even re-hung a gate that we had to relocate due to the position of the tanks. Now all we need is some rain...
Author: Vic Cross
A little tale of "you never know until you try". I have been wondering for ages what to do about having to separate media serving solutions in the house -- XBMC on the hacked XBoxes for doing music and transcoded movies, and MythTV for TV shows. I wasn't exactly losing sleep over it, but I couldn't help … Continue reading MythTV and XBMC
One of these days I'll write something positive here about some hardware... but I'll have to wait until I have a positive experience with some hardware! 🙂 I tried once again to get a Netgear router I bought a couple of years ago into useful service, but had to back it out after a week.I found some info … Continue reading Netgear: strike two
I went to the local Sunday Computer Market a few weeks back, and let myself give in to the temptation of buying an "upgrade kit" for my desktop. I'd been starting to feel guilty about borrowing-back the computer I'd given to my in-laws, and the prices on the kits at the market seemed really good.I subbed … Continue reading Why I’ll probably never buy ATI again (and shouldn’t have this time anyway)
In what might be a new record for me, less than 24 hours have passed and I'm less than enamoured with the MyBook 1TB drive I bought. Documentaion describes these drives as having a feature that spins down the drives after some inactivity, but this seems not to be happening on the Mac. But that's not the … Continue reading MyBook woe?
When I started at the railway in 1995, the fellow from the Operations area that took me on the tour of the data centre was proudly boasting of the new disk subsystem they had just installed for the mainframe. "This new subsystem gives us almost half a terabyte of DASD," he beamed, to the delight and … Continue reading Hard drives and history
The install instructions for the Shepherd TV guide data grabber say that "Some grabbers work faster/better if they can operate using The Onion Router (tor)". Hmm. Riiight. I can think of an alternate wording, but as this is a public blog I'll keep it to myself. 🙂
I'm still having a good time with MythTV here... The Knoppmyth box I've been running has been pretty-much rock-solid. My plan to consolidate MythTV onto the Asterisk server just got a healthy kick-along too, with an announcement that the bogus DViCO card I bought last year finally has Linux driver support. Bad news came a couple of days … Continue reading MythTV ups and downs
No I did not buy an Apple TV -- but seeing them on the shelves at the local Hardly Normal has got me thinking about the dilemma-in-the-making that is my media centre dream. It all comes down to bandwidth, or lack of it to be specific. Of the two locations at the Crossed Wires campus that ideally … Continue reading My media and Apple TV
I realised the other day, after restarting Samba on the main server for the umpteenth time to clear about 800 nmbd processes that were overrunning it, that I barely use Samba any more. It dawned on me that I have an almost entirely Microsoft-free household, and that there's no need for me to run Samba at … Continue reading Whither Samba?
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