For some time I’ve been wanting to get audio playing around the house without needing to turn things on and off, and now I’ve got multi-room synchronised audio playing in four rooms! The basis of this is a pair Of Raspberry Pi’s – a 3b and a Zero-W. The former I already had for this […]
Bookmark this category Xbmc is, at least as I’m concerned, the only media centre choice for the discerning geek. Recently I upgraded my ‘cube’ machine and patched appletv to the latest 10.0 version ‘Dharma’. The biggest difference, that I had heard rumours of for a while, is that the OSX/appletv verfsion how support hardware-accellerated x264 […]
Bookmark this category With my nice new shiny shiny laptop, because I wanted to multiboot it I’d partitoned the drive with the OSX disk utility. However, while Windows7 will indeed recognise a (secondary) GPT partitoned disk, it appears to require a hybrid MBR/GPT for installing, which means in Windows-land you’re pretty-much limited to the 4 […]
Bookmark this category So this morning arrived my ‘free’ upgrade’ from Orange of a HTC Hero. Of the phones they had, that weren’t an iPhone, this seemed the best bet as it’s running Android. What made the decision for me was that it’s possible to root it and use it as wf-fi/bluetooth to 3G access […]
So today I had not just arrive the foldable Targus IR keyboard, but also (finally!) the 8Gb Memory Stick Duo… I suppose I couldn’t completely exclude the possibility of running out of space, with m33 3.53-4 and being able to play video iso’s (not that I actually have more than one) and of course the […]
Well I’ve done it finally! After a few months of umm-ing and ah-ing I’ve finally taken the plunge and flashed my beloved psp with firmware. It was surprising, well simple and ‘justWorks’ and now I have a device that not only plays the Family Guy game (required >2.81) but also homebrew (most of what I […]
…as in anytime, anyplace, anywhere… After reinstalling storey (my net-facing machine) with xubuntulast weekend, last night and today I was having another go at getting ampache (the web-based mp3 cataloguer and player) working (previously my slackware 7 install couldn’t hack it owing to rather old libraries). So now it’s running and streaming via mpd -> […]
Download the ppd for your printer for CUPS from linuxprinting.org – install in /etc/cups/ppd (for debian) Install Windows print servies for UNIX (Add/Remove Programs, Windows Components) With the CUPS admin interface connect to: lpd://hostname/PrinterName Tried this because printing via SAMBA was giving an NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error which is obviously some kind of Windows authentication error (had […]
The Alesis Picoverb I bought off of Ebay a couple of weeks ago is now velcro’ed underneath my little Behringer UB502. At the moment it’s connected via the tape out/in (using those connections like an fx send/return) which seems to work ok as long as the input on the Picoverb isn’t turned up too much […]