Category Archives: Technology
bash completion 20060301
The first new release of bash completion in more than six months is a reality. This release features many new completion functions. Many others have been improved or optimised. In addition, a large number of bugs have been fixed, including … Continue reading
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Mythical MythTV
Most of Sunday was spent assembling our new MythTV box. When I switched it on that evening, an LED on the motherboard lit up and the VFD display at the front of the case displayed a couple of messages, but … Continue reading
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Printing Again
After nearly seven months without a printer, I’m happy to say that we are once again able to print documents from our computers. I took receipt of an Epson Stylus Photo R800 on Saturday, but had to wait until today … Continue reading
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MythTV Stuff Ordered
After much dithering, I have finally ordered nearly all of the hardware needed to build our MythTV box, an open source equivalent of the TiVo, with which we had so much fun in the US. I’d been enamoured with the … Continue reading
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Gallery As Good As New
The upgrade from Gallery 1.x to 2.x was quite involved. As has happened before (and to my great chagrin), albums and photos whose titles, summaries and descriptions contained foreign letters like ‘ð’, ‘þ’ and ‘œ’, as well as accented letters … Continue reading
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