I have, as many of you know, a fanatical relationship to Babylon 5. I watch the series over again at least once a year, and I think that until today there has not been anything better made. But enough about that… This post is about a song (or re…
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Windows Media Center + Dreambox = sant
En kollega viste meg noe stilig før helgen, og jeg har selv testet dette i dag, og stadfestet at dette er fantastisk! Hvis du har en dreambox, må du teste dette. Det du trenger: En dreambox og en PC med Windows 7 (en versjon som inkluderer Windows…
N900: Start mediaplayer from desktop with specific file
Every morning I record the Radio 1 morningshow as an ogg-file, and transfer it to my mobile to listen to it in the car on the way to work. This way I am not depending on coverage the whole way, and I can skip the commercials. With the builtin FM-s…
N900: Problems with tracker?
The tracker is a pretty smart daemon that runs in the background, and indexes all your music, photos and so on. The problem for me, was that this process either took all the cpu all the time, or it did nothing, and no music or photos was being ind…
N900 – Watch movies with mplayer+SiB
The N900 is more than capable of playing most non-HD videos. However, the built-in mediaplayer isn’t all that great, so you should go and install mplayer. Then install SiB which is a front-end for mplayer, and you’re set to go. This is especially …
N900 – Add a reboot button to the quick-menu
When you press the power on/off-button, a quick-menu appears. It has poweroff, but not reboot. This can be easily fixed: 1) Open /etc/systemui/systemui.xml in your favourite editor 2) Move the comment over the line with “Reboot” down a few lines b…
Installing sound drivers for VirtualBox / Windows 7
Even with the latest version of Windows 7 and VirtualBox 3.0 available, there is no sound drivers for the emulated sound card bundled, unlike in Windows XP. To enable sound in Windows 7 under VirtualBox you need to install the drivers for the soun…
N900 – Custom bootup video(s)
The hildon-welcome is fully configurable. You don’t even need to replace the original Nokia animation, you can choose to run that and something else, or just something else. How to do it: 1) Copy the video to /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/ 2) Go…
Mer diskplass
[root@solssd01] ~# zpool status DATA pool: DATA state: ONLINE NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM DATA ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c2t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c2t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c2t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c2t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 [root@solssd01] ~# zfs list DATA NAME U…
Time drifting in VirtualBox RHEL/CentOS
I am running VirtualBox on a Solaris 10 installation, with a CentOS 5.4 virtual machine. The problem I have had is that the time in the virtual machine has been going nuts. Sometimes it goes so slow it almost seems like time is standing still, som…