Author Archives: ianmacd
Sweet Surrender
The new DVD player for the MythTV box turned up on Friday… and turned out to exhibit the same problem: blinking lights, but no action. After disconnecting the SATA cable and the power cable a hundred times, swapping those cables … Continue reading
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Hardware Curse
The new drive for the MythTV box arrived today and works! Well, let’s not be hasty; the BIOS recognises it. I won’t know whether it truly works until I actually try to put an operating system on it. To that … Continue reading
Ruby/LDAP 0.9.4 released
I wasn’t planning another release of this package quite so quickly, but a user asked me how to restrict the number of results returned by the server, prompting me to ask myself, “Yeah, how do you do that?” I quickly … Continue reading
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New Hardware On Its Way
I’ve ordered a new hard drive to replace the useless article that I couldn’t cajole into action yesterday. Let’s hope the new one shows more signs of life. I hope it’s not just a case of some obscure incompatibility between … Continue reading
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Throbbing Election
Country-wide elections were held today for the city councils and their individual boroughs. I voted for Groen Links (the green left), both for my local borough of Oud Zuid and the Amsterdam municipal council. They lost a couple of seats … Continue reading
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