As I’ve just got a new Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB SSD for my work laptop (HP ProBook 6360b), I wanted to try switching from BIOS booting to UEFI. SSD setup Using gdisk I created two partitions: Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 206847 100.0 MiB EF00 EFI System 2 206848 [...]
Read more ›Although the instructions for upgrading the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc (not the new S version) are pretty detailed there are some twists that are not documented: You need to upgrade to the latests official Sony Ericsson rom (currently “4.0.2.A.0.62 Generic Global World” ), you can find links in this xda developers thread, else the phone will [...]
Read more ›My ADP1 has been running Android 1.6 (Cyanogenmod 4.2.x) for quite a while now, and I was exited to see that it would be possible to run Android 2.1 on it thanks to Cyanogen :) This guide is a digest of information found on Cyanogen’s wiki, like: ADP1 Firmware to CyanogenMod, please consult the wiki for up [...]
Read more ›I had the chance to test AnySee’s USB based DVB-C tuner with MythTV, and I can confirm it “just works”. To setup the AnySee E30 C Plus just follow my Terratec Cinergy C PCI HD + MythTV guide, the setup is exactly the same. The only thing I noticed is that the signal strength is [...]
Read more ›Since Xfce 4.6 I’ve had the wallpaper autorotated on my Xfce desktop with the help of a small script and cron. But after an update of some component (probably libxfconf / xfconf) my script did not work anymore and I got this error if I tried to run the script from a console or via [...]
Read more ›In the middle of December 2009 danish cable TV providor Stofa made most of the channels in its DVB-C network available unencoded. This prompted me to replace my analogue Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 TV tuner card (yes the links goes to my old PVR-150 page) with something that could record the digital signal from DVB-C. I looked [...]
Read more ›I recently upgraded the hardware of my desktop and here is my experience with the new hardware. The upgrade consists of: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (Product page) CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 810 Processor 2.6Ghz AM3 socket (Specs) CPU cooler: Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Cooler (Product page) RAM: Corsair 4Gb DDR3 XMS3 DHX PC10600 1333MHz (Product page) I [...]
Read more ›We had a disk failure on one of our Xen servers at work last week, and what we thought would be a quick disk replace, turned into a small nightmare. Our setup is fairly “simple”: 2 x raid1′s consisting of sda1/sdb1 (/dev/md0 mounted at /) and sda3/sdb3 (/dev/md1 with LVM on top of it). mdadm [...]
Read more ›I’ve been putting off upgrading my ADP1 in fear of that I would brick it, but after reading that there now are official update images available I decided to give it a try. Here is a short walk through: First download the following (you can skip download of the JesusFreke images if you don’t want [...]
Read more ›I have been playing around with my Android Developer Phone (ADP) for about 2 weeks now, and this are my thoughts on it so far. Wireless connection (Wi-Fi/3G) The Wi-Fi range is a bit limited, with my laptop I get about 80% signal quality in my living room, but the ADP only gets “fair” or [...]
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