Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Fedora 12 in one week

Running main system on Fedora 10, thinking about going to 12:



seem to be skipping the odd ones...

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Reassuring/Disconcerting service

new power adapter for DSL modem arrived.
Was the old one dangerous, or are they just being nice?


Should I move my modem to a metal/stone shelf unit, away from all flammable materials?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

bad Karma on older laptop?

I too had some difficulties upgrading my ubuntu to 9.10

on an older laptop wubi install;

did kill the install; Kernel panic on restart....

on the fresh install, also didn't quite get the screen setup correctly.

Fortunately wubi installs all go into a big disk file, so I have a copy of that on an external drive, with all my config settings.

Then did a fresh, clean install, and copied back my data.

One thing I found not working the way it used to was the microsoft VPN;

the commandline works, but the gui didn't work out of box, like it did last time.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

MythTV with Remote control working

Now I can return to my couch;

so a confirmed example, in analog video mode:
fedora 2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686
mythtv-0.21-21.fc10.1.i386
dmesg says
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner
Hauppauge model 75111, rev C3E9, serial# .......

box says:
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1950 External USB2.0
model 1217
has remote control

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner

new hardware...

on the kpc (which has returned!)

did have to move the firmware off a CD onto local disk;

MythTV likes it on Fedora 10

looking at the remote now

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009

twitter/facebook/blogger

an attempt now to hook three apps up; may need to do some coding to include linkedIn... use Wave?