grubbier
About time I wrote up a little of what I discovered while I was trying to fix grub when I replaced my MythTV boot drive. Thought it best I squeeze in a quick entry now to ensure I'd actually done …...
View ArticleFedora 12 and amazonmp3
Just discovered that the rather nifty amazonmp3 utility supplied by Amazon to do its MP3 downloads still only supports up to Fedora 11 (among other Linux distros), and won't run on my Fedora 12....
View ArticleSend files to a bluetooth device from Linux
Short and sweet, this one. I think nautilus tries to be clever and produce a “send to bluetooth” menu option when you right-click on certain file types. I've never had this work terribly well, if at...
View ArticleFixing some issues with Fedora 16
This should be a short one, I'm not going to explain much, just report a couple of issues I've had with Fedora 16 since updating from Fedora 14, and which took me some digging to sort out. At least I …...
View ArticleFedora 16 issues – part 2: Empathy
Finally seem to have gotten the GNOME IM tool “Empathy” partially working. What a pain in the jacksie that was. Why Empathy? I've been happily using Pidgin for ages, but only really use it for my...
View ArticleRemoving the large resize grip / button in GNOME Terminal
I like to have my GNOME Terminal scrollbar on the left (it reminds me of xterm then). But in GNOME 3 there's a fugly triangular grip/button that sits in the bottom right obscuring text! There's no...
View ArticleMythTV and the UK Digital Switchover
We had part one of the Digital Switchover in our area on Wednesday, so I finally had to bite the bullet and do a proper DVB channel re-scan on my MythTV box. When I first set up DVB on my … Continue...
View ArticlePain with grub2 when upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16
I meant to blog this when it was still fresh in my mind, but frankly, it was such a nightmare upgrading my Fedora 14 box to Fedora 16 that I just wanted to put it all behind me and get … Continue...
View ArticleUsing multiple fetchmail instances for instant gratification
For various reasons I have 10 email accounts spread across various servers for the family and me, and have always used an instance of fetchmail to round-robin connect to these and download all emails...
View ArticleHDMI Audio in Scientific Linux 6
I had expected that this was going to be a long post with excruciating detail on what I had to do to get audio out of my new PVR's nVidia card HDMI output. But like all correct solutions, the answer …...
View ArticleXFCE4 port of Hardware Monitor Applet
Just a quicky today: I'd briefly adopted the GNOME 2 Hardware Monitor Applet, only to find GNOME 3 dropping support for such applets. However, all is not lost!Omega Phil has created a brand spanking...
View ArticleFixing TV screen size via nVidia HDMI for MythTV
A bit of a brain-dump to record what I just (re?) did having bought a new telly and finding that the HDMI output of my MythTV PVR was overscanning so I was losing a large margin of picture around the …...
View ArticleControlling Sonos via a Google Home and Google Assistant
I just bought a Google Home Mini to play with while they're on a Black Friday offer. They don't connect to Sonos by default yet, so I thought I'd try to do something about it ... It wasn't an...
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