I’ve had the Philips SRU-8010 Universal Remote for quite some time now, but never really got it working quite well with my Windows Media Center Edition USB Infrared receiver (or cheap knockoff). I got the receiver working very well on my Gentoo Linux HTPC with LIRC’s mceusb2 driver but wasn’t able to get my remote to play perfectly with the whole setup. I was able to overcome the issue with a roundabout strategy and am pleased to report that I now have my whole media center, including my HTPC, TV, and sound receiver working together via universal remote. Read on for the details.
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Jan '09
28
Philips SRU-8010 Not-So-Universal Remote
Aug '08
10
Allowing Access to FTP Disk Only Via FTP
For bandwidth shaping reasons, I wanted to be able to allow access to my FTP disk (mounted at /var/ftp) only via FTP (hosted by ProFTPd). As it turns out, this is quite easy to do using a couple of UNIX permissions tricks and some ProFTPd voodoo. Read on for the basic description of how I’ve done it. Continue reading ‘Allowing Access to FTP Disk Only Via FTP’
Sep '07
13
HD Video Playback in Linux
It seems that any developer I ask tells me that it’s currently not possible to play back 1080p H.264 video in Linux. In this post, I respond loud and clear to anyone who has said that: They Are Wrong. But there has to be a catch, right? Of course there is; there’s always a catch. Yes, I can play back some 1080p H.264 video flawlessly in Linux. Yes, I have watched entire movies in this fashion. Yes, there are some clips that I just can’t play back with my setup. Read on for the details of said setup, how I do it, and what the limitations are.
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Sep '06
29
…And From the Ashes, An FTP is Reborn
The good news: Charlie’s Server’s FTP service is back online, with all of the old data to boot!
The bad news: One of the drives in the FTP array died.
The ugly news: LVM didn’t want to activate the array in partial mode.
Read on for technical details and how I revived a dead LVM array with a missing drive.
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Sep '06
26
LVM + Moving Around Drives = Unhappy?
When I saw some ugly I/O errors on one of the drives in my LVM volume, I immediately looked into how to move whatever data I could off of that drive and onto another free drive. Luckily, I happened have a few free drives.
After some quick reading online, and the lovely tab-completion available in bash, I found the pvmove command, and decided to put it to use. After not receiving any output for several hours, I decided that the process had hung and killed it. When running pvmove --abort, I got a few instances of the following error.
reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
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Sep '05
24
Long Live Charlie’s Server
Charlie’s Server is reborn. The previously mentioned replacement hardware came in a few days back, and the new server is up and running. To be honest, the speed (or lack thereof) of the new Athlon 64 hardware didn’t stun me. All in all, though, I think I made an excellent purchase, particularly in terms of bang for buck. It’s stable as anything, and more than fast enough for my needs.
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In response to: Seth Nickell – Design Fu: K00l Luminocity OpenGL Videos.
Alright hardware-accelerated-X guys & girls, you’ve got my attention yet again. And I thought XDirectFB was cool.
It’s got to be only a matter of time before we have something equivelant on Mac OS X. As really the first operating environment to provide hardware-accelerated rendering of windows and widgets, Mac OS X can’t be far behind. I’m praying that someone develops some sort of haxie to enable this sort of thing globally on OS X.
Feb '05
7
Lappy Go Bye-Byes
As expected, I sent out my PowerBook for repairs today. The service guys told me that they expect it back within three, maybe four days. No loaners available (not that I’d really use one anyhow). Meanwhile I’m starting to get used to KDE, Thunderbird and Enigmail on a friend’s linux-x86 box — every few minutes I joyfully remember why I loved linux, and every few seconds I painfully remember why I jumped on board with Apple’s Mac OS X. It’s going to be a long week.
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