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 for a card that had the following characteristic:

I recently upgraded the hardware of my desktop and here is my experience with the new hardware. The upgrade consists of:

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.

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.

Finally, my HTC G1 Dev Phone running Android OS has arrived!

After the recent upgrade in ArchLinux of xorg-server from 1.4.x to 1.5.x my thrusty Logitech Marble FX trackball did not work entirely. The trackball does not have a dedicated scroll wheel, but by pressing a button, and using the trackball, you can scroll both vertical and horizontal.

Some handy command line tools to burn CDs/DVDs and work with .iso files:

I use both the zsh and bash shell, and most of the time I run them in screen. This happens in my favourite terminal: urxvt (aka rxvt-unicode).

We had a problem with the nagios check_mailq plugin at work, it kept timing out. So I wrote a simple bash script (instead of 610 lines of perl) which is “compatible” with check_mailq (supports the same arguments) which uses “exim4” and is very quick. Just drop it in /usr/local/bin/check_mailq_simple.sh and adjust your nagios conf to use that instead of check_mailq