Category Archives: Linux

SSH Tunneling Windows RDC

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Jeff Fitzsimons

This article explains how to securely port-forward Windows Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) over SSH, using standard SSH command line syntax. If you prefer to use GUI SSH tools, such as PuTTY, there are other guides for that. Terminology Notes My … Continue reading →

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Tearing on MythTV with VLC

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Jeff Fitzsimons

After updating to Ubuntu 8.10, I started to get tearing artifacts. This crop up especially badly during scenes that involve panning. The MythTV Wiki explains the fix for tearing: echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq Well, it works for me, anyway. I … Continue reading →

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Can’t Log in to VMware Server Console on Ubuntu

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Jeff Fitzsimons

As usual, I sped through the VMware Server installation, just using default settings. I then found myself unable to log in to the VMware Server Console. I would always get an error: You do not have permissions to login to … Continue reading →

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Stripping Vertical Whitespace Using tr

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Jeff Fitzsimons

The Translate command, tr, is available on all Unix-y systems, including Cygwin. tr -d will delete the specified characters from a stream. Several handy escape sequences are provided for stripping newlines, carriage returns, and form-feeds: \f – form feed \n … Continue reading →

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Autohide Ubuntu Menu in MythTV

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Jeff Fitzsimons

When running MythTV under Ubuntu, the top menu (panel) may appear over MythTV’s output. The panel can be set to auto-hide, but even when hidden, several pixels will be displayed to remind you of its presence. Luckily, the number of … Continue reading →

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Hauppauge HVR-1800 with MythTV

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Jeff Fitzsimons

The Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 is a PCI-Express card which has two tuners: one for ATSC/QAM digital video, and one for NTSC analog video. According to the MythTV wiki, only the digital video tuner is currently supported. Hauppauge’s Windows driver, which … Continue reading →

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Hacking the Buffalo TeraStation Live

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Jeff Fitzsimons

The Buffalo TeraStation Live is a NAS device which uses an embedded, ARM-based computer running a variant of Linux. Originally, I wanted to enable NFS, though later I stuck with CIFS/Samba. However, enabling SSH access proved invaluable for performing backups … Continue reading →

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