Category Archives: Technology
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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Hardware Woes Not Over
After putting the bits of our future MythTV box back together, the system now powers up, but the SATA hard drive is not detected by the motherboard. Yawn. The SATA DVD drive, on the other hand, is recognised, so I … Continue reading
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MythTV Hardware Almost Ready
Our prospective MythTV box is more or less ready for the software. The shop that was investigating the source of my problem had called to say that they had got to the bottom of it, so off I went in … Continue reading
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Miff TV
I went back to troubleshooting my expensive box of dysfunctional hardware today, but I actually couldn’t test any further. The next thing to check was the power supply, but I didn’t have a spare ATX unit to pop in. Sadly, … Continue reading
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