Going against my better judgment I decided to upgrade my MythTV box to Hardy Heron. My 3 other systems upgraded or installed without a hitch. One of the basic rules of having a Myth box is that once everything is working correctly leave it alone! I broke the cardinal sin and charged ahead. […]
If you’re running Ciscovpn on Hardy Heron or any other distro with a 2.6.24 kernel you’ll need to patch the source code prior to compiling. You can follow this guide. It worked for me.
Well the big release of Hardy Heron becomes official on Thursday, April 24. The Ubuntu servers will just get hammered in the mad rush to download Hardy in the coming days. I decided to beat everyone to the punch and install the last release candidate and just install the updates that come down the pipe […]
I’ve been doing some testing and decided to give the latest version of Mandriva a spin. I went with the free version as that’s what most people are trying out. The install was very straight forward and took a total of 20 minutes on my workstation. I went with the KDE desktop and the installer […]
I like Unix. My first exposure to Unix was way back in 1996. It was stable, secure and very powerful. It was the perfect server OS. Fast forward to now. PC-BSD claims to be the most user friendly BSD system for the desktop. It’s based on FreeBSD and incorporates many desktop friendly utilities. I first […]
Last week I read this article stating that more retailers are offering some kind of refund/rebate for owners of HD-DVD players. It’s not the full amount paid for the players but it’s a sign that some retailers are looking to take care of those of us who took a gamble and lost in the […]
I spoke to my brother in law and for the most part everything is good. He had some general questions on how to digitize his CD collection and synchronizing audio files to his newly purchased Muvo audio player. By default sound juicer is unable to encode to mp3. I walked him into installing the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse […]