Monthly Archives: July 2009

My Peek isn’t expected to get here till Saturday and I haven’t ordered the USB-to-Serial cable yet, but I will soon. However, while I wait for all that I’m digging into the links on the elinux.org/peek wiki. The link to the TI site for the TCS2310 (the main chip with […]

More Peek Research

Wed July 29, 2009 in Hardware / Linux / Peek tagged arm7 processor / arm926 / Linux / omap (updated 5398 days ago)

I placed an order for a gray Peek from Amazon. The gray Peek’s are$2 less than the colored ones. Who needs a colored one for hacking? Anyway, it should arrive by Saturday. In the meantime I’ve been watching the videos and scanning online resources to learn about the internals of […]

Peek ordered, learning about the hardware

Mon July 27, 2009 in GTK+ / Hardware / Linux / Peek tagged framebuffer device / GTK+ / jtag interface / kernel / Linux / mobile wireless / peek / standard vga / usb port / video display / wifi / wireless lan (updated 5400 days ago)

My previous posts on doing Fedora upgrades cover most of the topic but I realized there were a few things I left out. Installing additional applications The first thing has to do with some useful applications that Mauriat Miranda doesn’t cover on his excellent Fedora installation guidelines. xpdf – a […]

Upgrade addendum: other packages of interest, configuring a Wacom ...

Tue July 14, 2009 in Fedora / Linux tagged evolution / Fedora / gdm / GIMP / gnome / GTK+ / kde / keycodes / Linux / logitech internet navigator / Wacom / Writing / xmodmap / xorg

I just wanted to brain dump a few things I thought were interesting and worth looking at more deeply. This is just so I don’t forget about them. Making KVM images I got this from Linux Journal’s August 2009 issue, in Serge Hallyn’s article on Making Root Unprivileged: qemu-img create […]

Interesting stuff, nothing major

Tue July 14, 2009 in General / Hardware / Linux tagged arm port / cool devices / kernel / Linux / linux journal / Open Source / peek / qemu / real time (updated 5412 days ago)

I was researching why Battle of Britain would not auto-fill using the new tmdb.pl in MythTV’s Video Manager when I started a tail on the backend log. tail -f /var/log/mythbackend.log I got a bunch of these messages: 2009-07-07 20:09:22.069 Error: offset>181, pes length & current can not be queried According […]

MythTV: EIT errors in backend log and fixing Video Manager ...

Tue July 07, 2009 in Linux / MythTV tagged battle of britain / mythbackend / MythTV / tmdb / ubuntu / useonairguide / Video (updated 5369 days ago)

With the upgrade to F11 I’ve discovered that when I install a DVD GNOME automatically mounts it with an option (right click on the desktop icon) for copying the DVD to an iso image. The ISO is typically 4-8GB which is roughly 3-4 times the size of the AVI files […]

Switching from AVI’s to DVD ISOs for use with MythTV

Tue July 07, 2009 in Fedora / Linux / Movies / Video tagged acidrip / avi files / gnome / mplayer / MythTV / Video / video archives / xine

The terms of service apparently changed for imdb.com and the original imdb.pl script in MythTV that is used to retrieve data about movies (via the Video Manager) is no longer working properly. The results vary but in my case the director information was not be pulled properly. There is a […]