Category Archives: Computing

MythTV Freeview Channel Scan

Posted on January 13, 2012 by james

Despite a few rearrangements of the channels on our local transmitter I’ve been putting off rescanning the channels for some time as last time I tried it broke things horribly. Nothing was due to record for a few hours yesterday … Continue reading →

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Google Completely Loses the Plot

Posted on October 11, 2011 by james

Over the last couple of days I’ve been receiving frequent emails containing the tedious witterings of someone I’m barely acquainted with, courtesy of Google+. I have never told Google I wish to receive email from Google+, so at what point … Continue reading →

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MythTV/FFmpeg: Part 3

Posted on September 29, 2011 by james

Well, I finally realised that there’s a 0.24 fixes tree for nuvexport that isn’t part of the main MythTV 0.24 fixes tree, so I downloaded that having read on the mailing list that it should work with the MythTV 0.24 … Continue reading →

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MythTV/FFmpeg: Part 2

Posted on September 28, 2011 by james

Enabling mp3 encoding in the bundled version of ffmpeg was merely a case of adding –enable-libmp3lame to the configure command for the entire package. nuvexport-xvid now runs to completion. Unfortunately the output looks all wrong, so I’m back to the … Continue reading →

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Trials and Tribulations with MythTV and FFmpeg

Posted on September 27, 2011 by james

I’m running MythTV 0.24.1 at the moment with quite a few MythBuntu and other front ends. I’m running out of disk for recordings and decided to archive a few off to release some space which I’ve done with previous versions … Continue reading →

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8GB Memory Upgrade for HP Proliant Microserver

Posted on September 19, 2011 by james

I decided to upgrade the server to 8GB RAM (its default configuration is 1GB). The motherboard has two RAM sockets, so I purchased a pair of 4GB RAM sticks to put in. It’s not a difficult job, only taking ten … Continue reading →

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Google Sketchup on Ubuntu 11.04

Posted on September 13, 2011 by james

For designing the observatory I really needed something a bit more “touchy-feely” than pencil and paper — my usual method of designing bits and pieces I build. A few people had mentioned Google Sketchup, but it’s only available for Windows … Continue reading →

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Backup Server

Posted on September 13, 2011 by james

Now I’m moving as much of my paperwork as possible to electronic format and given that we have lots of photos and video footage of the children in electronic form I decided it might well be sensible to have some … Continue reading →

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Ditching My Paperwork

Posted on September 12, 2011 by james

I can’t quite believe it’s been six months since I last wrote anything. I guess that’s just how busy I’ve been of late. Time flies like a banana. Anyhow, thanks to a client who wanted me to sign an NDA … Continue reading →

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Loading MySQL data for phpunit testing

Posted on February 9, 2011 by james

I’d been bugged for a while because when I was writing phpunit tests for some of my code, I couldn’t find a tidy way of pre-loading data into a MySQL database for testing against. Everything I came up with seemed … Continue reading →

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