Jun200921

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List of Media Centre Software for Windows and Linux

Here is a list of free Media Centre Software for Linux and Windows. Windows Media Center Software Windows Media Center – http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/media-center.aspx (supports TV cards) XBMC – http://xbmc.org Moovida – http://www.moovida.com MediaPortal – http://www.team-mediaportal.com (supports TV cards) Freevo – http://freevo.sourceforge.net (supports TV cards) GB-PVR – http://www.gbpvr.com (supports TV cards) MeediOS – http://www.meedios.com (supports TV cards) [...]

Jun200920

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Installing Windows 7 on Acer Aspire Revo

Here are some instructions for installing Windows 7 RC onto the Acer Aspire Revo. 1. Backup Drivers Using “Revobuild”, take a backup of the drivers on the recovery partition – they are copied to a USB stick. Might come in useful later! 2. Partitioning Here is how I partitioned the 160GB hard drive (Using “GParted [...]

Jun200920

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Power Consumption of Acer Aspire Revo

My Acer Aspire Revo R3600 arrived yesterday. Here are the specifications: – 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 CPU 1GB DDR2 RAM 160GB hard disk Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics HDMI, D-SUB out eSATA 6 x USB 4-in-1 card reader Gigabit Ethernet 802.11bg WLAN Linux Size: 30mm x 180mm x 180mm I’ve installed Windows 7 (more details in [...]

Jun200918

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Streaming HD Video to Xbox 360

I’ve been experimenting with encoding HD videos using EncodeHD and then streaming them to an Xbox 360 via TwonkyVision from my QNAP TS-101. The QNAP TS-101 is a small NAS device with 64mb RAM so I think its a safe assumption that no transcoding is being done. I first took a sample video from here [...]

Jun200913

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Ubuntu Wallpapers

To install some nice wallpapers on Ubuntu, run the following command: – sudo apt-get install peace-wallpapers tropic-wallpapers ubuntustudio-wallpapers blubuntu-wallpapers

Jun200908

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Xbox 360 Multi-Player Games

Here are some good Xbox 360 XBLA games that I have identified may be worth looking at. Most of them are also multi-player (either local or via Xbox Live) Xbox Live Arcade Catan (800 points) Sensible World of Soccer (800 points) Peggle (800 points) Bomberman Live (800 points) Small Arms (400 points) Uno (400 points) [...]

May200918

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Dropbox

I know its been around for ages, but I’ve finally got around to trying “dropbox”. If you haven’t heard, it allows you to synchronise folders across different PC’s. How it works is you install the software on your different PC’s (work laptop, home PC) and then you have a folder called “My Dropbox”. When you [...]

Apr200903

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Useful Plugins for Gimp

Gimp is the image editing tool for Linux. To install additional plugins such as drop shadow etc, the easiest way is to install gimp-plugin-registry. This can be done using the Ubuntu packages: – sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry

Mar200928

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Backup of all MySQL databases

To backup all MySQL databases on a machine, use the following command: – mysqldump -u root -psecret –all-databases > backup.sqlTo restore all databases, use the following command: – mysql -u root -psecret < backup.sql To restore a single database (from a cpanel backup etc), use the following command: – mysql -u user -psecret dbname < [...]

Mar200925

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Starting a VM from the Command Line

Starting a VM from the Command Line (or via a shortcut on the desktop) is easy – just use the command: – VBoxManage startvm name_of_virtual_machine for example : – VBoxManage startvm “Windows XP”

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