Author Archives: fnx

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PSN: the_phoenix

Cinema listings via MythTV

The current MythTV has a “movies” section on the information centre that reports cinema times for local cinemas.

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Tr2n

Nuff said!

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Custom MediaWiki functions

I run a wiki at work, and have done for a few year, but it’s only recently I’ve started getting down and dirty with customisation.

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grubbier

About time I wrote up a little of what I discovered while I was trying to fix grub when I replaced my MythTV boot drive.

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0wned no more

Well, I’ve pretty much discovered what was going on with my box being hacked, and I’m fairly happy I’ve cleaned out the ‘infection’.

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0wned

Gack!  My home PC got cracked earlier in the week!

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White dog shit

I’ve had a number of minor conversations over the years that pondered the disappearance of the crumbly piles of white doggy poo that people of a certain age, myself included, swear were common place in the 70s and early 80s.

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grub

I’ve been trying to replace my current 2 hard drives in my MythTV PVR with a single new one, but have suffered major grief getting the thing to boot.

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No sound in Firefox Flash plugin

I’m pretty certain that I had this after upgrading my main PC to Fedora 8, but I hit it again this weekend on my laptop: no sound playing flash videos in Firefox.

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Beep

I treated myself to some extra RAM for my main PC back in January, and it’s been a bit of a tale of woe.

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