Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
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 terminology assumes that you are connecting to a machine on your ...
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
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 just keep forgetting what to do when it crops up.
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
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 the server.
Some searching turned up a solution which is ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
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 - new line
\r - return
Since tr is deleting characters, ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
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 pixels shown can be customized.
Run gconf-editor.
Select apps | ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
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 contains the proper firmware, plus a shell script to ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
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 without having to worry about whether or not ...
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