Changed remote layout for my samsung tv with raspbmc
When you connect the Raspberry Pi with Raspbmc to a CEC enabled TV like my Samsung UE40ES6710, it is possible to control it directly with the TV remote without the need for another remote and the quest to find a working IR receiver. Sadly some buttons on the remote were not mapped in a useful [...]
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Switch from Unity to XFCE
I tried using Unity since Ubuntu removed Gnome2. I don’t like Gnome3 so I stuck with Unity for quite some time, hoping I would get used to it. But I did not and bugs that hide the dock depending on uptime (Bug) really got me over the edge to look elsewhere. (I’m ashamed to admit I [...]
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Sluggish Ubuntu during disk I/O solved
I finally found a solution for the most annoying linux problem I had for years! TL;DR: System is now far more responsible during disk I/O with the lowlatency kernel, source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/131094/comments/390 I have a linux box (waxford) that is used as a home server for all my needs at home (media, file server, dev server, backup, [...]
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tsclient no more in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10
If you have to connect to Windows machines from time to time and have been an Ubuntu user like me, you most probably have been using tsclient to connect to it. But what I missed during the upgrade a couple of weeks ago was the fact that the previous Ubuntu standard tsclient has been removed. [...]
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Netvault 8 & Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
Today I had to add a new server to our backup. It was the first 64bit installation of Ubuntu (10.04 LTS), because all the other virtual machines were still running 32bit. (Why? I cannot remember.) The backup system is a Netvault from BakBone, running on a Ubuntu 08.04 LTS 32bit. Two things I discovered today, [...]
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Ubuntu, Apparmor and moved home dirs
I got a new HDD recently and linked /home to a new partition mounted on /data/, /data/home/. Just like I did a dozen times before. Now a realized, that my pdf viewer evince (and surely some other programs) aren’t working anymore. Evince crashes with this error message: (evince:22792): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the [...]
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VDR hack: Stream video with synced audio
VDR streams very well with the streamdev-plugin, but only unicast http streams. That is usually no problem, because even 3 streams aren’t nearly too much for a normal 100Mbit home network and I wouldn’t need any more at home. But with the world cup starting tomorrow me and Karin are going to watch some games [...]
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Stream of the World Cup 2010
This year I wanted to stream the FIFA World Cup 2010 (or Weltmeisterschaft 2010 here in Germany ) to a few computers at my work. I chose VLC to do this because of its build in excellent streaming capabilities. There are also more flexible or powerful streaming solutions from VLC like VLM or DVBlast, but [...]
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Asus M4N78-VM and wakeup under linux
I guess if I wait until I’ve completed something, I’ll never blog about stuff like this. So I’ll try to have this here in smaller bites: My new mainboard for the vdr (Asus M4N78-VM) runs great so far with linux, especially at the moment yavdr: HDTV on the DVI worked out of the box. And [...]
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Installation via USB
I just got some new hardware for my new (or overhauled) vdr. (More on that later…) I wanted to try out yavdr and needed a cd drive for the installation. I looked in my basement for an old drive, finally found one in an old IBM Intellistation and got it out of there. Then I [...]
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