I just moved house, and of course the first thing to do is plug in the media pc running MediaPortal, so that my shows will record. But as you would expect, change brings problems. It doesn’t start. The pc boots, everything looks ok, but the TV-Server doesn’t seem to be running. When I tried to launch the …

I recently decided to make the leap from Ubuntu and open source MythTV to the professional product, Microsoft’s Windows Media Center. Why you may ask? Well to be honest I moved and lost my Freeview reception, then came to the conclusion that without that I no longer had any real use for the machine. But also I …

Ive had my mythbox up and running for about a month now, and its working perfectly. Here are a few wee changes i had to make from the default xfce mythbuntu 8.10 I had to make. Mythwelcome I have my mythbox set up to autologin and run with the remote, without a keyboard and mouse. for this reason i needed it to have …

It has come to the end of another university year and I’m ready to once again start being a bit more regular with my blog posts. It also means i have more free time to start working on some projects of my own. The plan for this summer is to get a server running, to do samba/nfs file sharing and ldap …

My struggles with TVersity have come to an end for the moment, and I’m quite happy with that. After struggling for many hours to get it working under wine on my ubuntu machine, I decided to try out vmware running virtual windows xp. it took all of a couple of hours, most of which was a windows installation, and i …

About a year ago I bought myself a psp off of the local auction website TradeMe, New Zealand’s answer to eBay, and have since used it mostly for listening to music and not a lot else. Sure I’ve used it for gaming, and struggled with using it for the internet, and just recently I’ve started watching …