Little bits of information someone might find useful, or not
As part of the ongoing TV streaming project i’m working on, I tried a new DVB-T tuner (the August DVB-T210). Whilst it is supported by the Linux TV project, support is only available in kernel version 3.14 and newer. At the time of writing, Kernel 3.14 is so new that it only received a stable release a week ago. Naturally, no Linux...
I recently had an interesting request from some relatives – they wanted to be able to watch TV in the kitchen. A simple task I thought, I grabbed an old analogue TV, digital set-top box and internal aerial. Unfortunately, despite the post-switchover boost in transmission power, the signal received was just slightly too weak to be useful, resulting in only...
Note: This will likely work for other similar ASRock boards too (e.g. E3C226D2I), however as I’ve only got the E3C224D2I I cannot verify if it does or not. Due to the method, it may even work on other boards too. Proceed at your own risk! I recently bought the ASRock E3C224D2I motherboard for a new Home NAS build. It has an integrated IPMI controller,...
I often end up doing various bits of technical support for my relatives. Recently however, I came across an interesting issue – a relative said that their Windows 7 laptop was displaying no text whatsoever – no text on the desktop icons, no text in most applications and if you clicked the start button, nothing would appear. Connecting remotely, I...
After getting a bit fed up with OVH, I recently moved my personal server to Online.net. Like OVH, they are a French-based provider of low price, but high performance servers – great for my needs of a powerful box for all my experiments and personal web, voice etc hosting. Unfortunately, getting IPv6 working with Online.net is somewhat more involved than...
