In chasing my VNC problem I came across this reference on the kernel Bugzilla about a general problem with segfaulting on SMP AMD64 systems. Some pretty ugly stuff (the comment list is huge!). Anyway, guys are chasing suspected bugs all over the place, with a couple of theories but not really any firm leads... Then, Linus (Torvalds, … Continue reading Linus, you da man
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I like Gentoo Linux, but sometimes I find it's not really applicable for some of what I'm using it for. Like my main server. This machine is one of the two machines at my place that just HAVE to work (the firewall/phone server is the other), and there's been a few instances recently where Gentoo has let … Continue reading Gentoo Linux wastes a bit more of my life
We bit the bullet here at the new Ellendale data centre. LDAP authentication! Works like a bought one.Coinciding with the relocation of the prime server from Rubicon DC to Ellendale DC, we've implemented LDAP authentication for Linux and Mac OS X clients. There's also automounted home directories to boot! It went quite smoothly, all things considered. Now will come … Continue reading Veejoe goes LDAP
Okay, I'm an ungrateful whinger. MythTV so far has been an exercise in lost sleep and disappointment. Don't know if it's my TV card, the card's drivers, DVB (particularly HDTV) support in MythTV, or just the general stability of MythTV itself, but I'm far from happy.I've been holding off on buying a TV card for years, partly … Continue reading Experiences with MythTV – part 1
My experiences with XBMC are still happy ones. I'm learning to live with its lockups (usually caused by me making vicious, unprovoked attacks on it by doing things like pressing buttons on the remote)... No, that's too harsh 🙂 In seriousness, I'm very impressed -- almost as impressed with it as I am with how much disk space … Continue reading More on XBMC — ‘Lets go to the movies!’
Fun for young and old! Seriously, if you've got some time to kill (and potentially an XBox to kill as well!) you can take the opportunity to stick it to ol' Bill Gates up in Redmond and hack his little console machine. Depending on the application it can be a pretty cheap way to get the … Continue reading XBox modding
Only a couple of weeks after going all gooey over SqueezeBox and SlimServer, I've found another way of doing media streaming at home. I've now joined that rebel group known as "XBox-modders", and have a machine at home now running the XBox Media Centre.XBox Media Centre requires a modded XBox to operate, though as I found … Continue reading XBox Media Centre
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