geexbox: home theater for you pc
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Building a Home Theatre: Part I – Equipments
October 6, 2008 - 3:54 pm
Tags: 1080i, 1080p, 125Mbps, 720p, a-110, adsl, adsl2+, airties, belkin, bravia, connectivity, divx, dvd, dvd player, h.264, harddisk, hd, HDMI, hdmi 1.3, hdmi 1.3a, hi-fi, high definition, Home Theatre, HTPC, hts6510, KDL-40D3550, living room, mpeg, networked media tank, podcasts, popcorn hour, progressive scan, pure-av, router, rss, rt-211, sata, seagate, sigma designs, smp8635, sony, surge, surge protection, Switch, wifi, Wireless, wireless access point, wmv, xvid, youtube
Posted in Tips | 1 comment
On one of my previous posts i mentioned i was building a HTPC. Plans have changed and instead of a HTPC i’ve built up a pure HT gadget network. In this series of article i’ll guide how to setup the Home Theatre.
First let’s look the equipments i gathered & connected while building the HT system.
Equipments:
TV-Set: [...]
crontab generator
http://www.htmlbasix.com/crontab.shtml is a crontab generator. Don’t mess with crontab -e, just use this tool
Automatic MYSQL Backups
September 19, 2008 - 3:32 pm
Tags: automysqlbackup, backup, linode, linux, mysql, script
Posted in Tips | 2 comments
As i’ve moved to my own Linode, now i do host my own databases which i need to backup. For now i’ve just implemented for MySQL but i also need to backup my files on the linode. That’s left for another word day anyway.
I’ve used the AutoMysqlBackup script which i’ve installed using this guide. We’ll [...]
Networked Media Tank: Popcorn Hour
September 15, 2008 - 1:24 pm
Tags: ht, HTPC, networked media tank, nmt
Posted in Life | 2 comments
After my Sony Bravia and Philips HTS6510, i ordered a Network Media Tank from Popcorn Hour;
Ordered it from http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/ for 264$.
I think it’ll arrive in 10-15 days and i’ll post a review here.
Specification :
Connectivity
Bonjour
UPnP SSDP
UPnP AV
Windows Media Connect
Windows Media Player NSS
SMB
NFS
HTTP servers: myiHome, WizD, SwissCenter, MSP Portal, Llink, GB-PVR
BitTorrent P2P
NAS access : SMB, NFS, FTP
Web [...]
Bought Philips HTS6510
September 15, 2008 - 11:55 am
Tags: home theater, ht, HTPC, hts6510, philips
Posted in Life | 1 comment
I had already got a Sony KDL-40D3550 and now i’ve bougth a Philips HTS6510 which is a HT system.
It got quite nice features but i still need to build a HTPC anyway. HTS6510’s sound is exceptionally nice where as it only supports 1080i but not 1080p.
You can read a user review here, find product FAQ [...]
Building a HTPC & High Definition World of Warcraft PC
September 5, 2008 - 11:14 am
Tags: 1080i, 1080p, 720p, bravia, hd, hdtv, high defition, HTPC, kdl-40d350, sony, warhammer online, world of warcraft
Posted in Gaming | 2 comments
As i’ve purchased a Sony Bravia KDL-40D3550, now it’s time to build up a HTPC & World of Warcraft station for it.
Purpose: Build up a HTPC with cool design, play 1080p High Def. videos and be able to play World of Warcraft and Warhammer Online on it which is connected to my High Definition TV; [...]
kernel development: setting hybrid development environment linux/win
July 17, 2008 - 9:44 pm
Tags: coremark, development, hybrid, kernel, linux, qemu, ulteo, virtualbox, windows
Posted in Development | No comments
So,you are a hobby kernel developer? You develop your code with gnu toolchain? But also use windows? Need to access your toolchain from windows? You compiled a cross-compiler gcc for cygwin but ld keeps warning about PE file format?
Then with following software, you can just run a hybrid development environment, full-featured with all tools avaible [...]
coremark: windows üzerinde gnu development
July 16, 2008 - 1:37 pm
Tags: colinux, coremark, gnu, linux, ulteo, virtual desktop
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cygwin gibi çözümlerde olsa, bir süredir colinux ile işlerimi hallediyordum. Son birkaç gündür colinuxın kısıtlamaları yüzünden yeni alternatifler ararken, colinux tabanlı andlinux ve ulteo virtual desktopı buldum.
Her ikisinide denedim ve ulteo virtual desktop neredeyse zero-configuration olduğu için seçimim oldu. artık çekirdek kodunu, linux boot etmeden, virtual desktop ile windows ile derleyebiliyorum. Hem böylece sevdiğim IDE [...]
undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail’
July 16, 2008 - 10:49 am
Tags: cflags, gcc, linux, ubuntu
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just add -fno-stack-protector to your CFLAGS;
CFLAGS =-g -ffreestanding -nostdlib -fno-builtin -fno-exceptions -Wall -fno-stack-protector
r8169 – strange wake-on-lan problem
With Intel’s latest boards, r8169 driver may have problems managing the realtek chip. If so;
http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/zenworks/desktop-management/zw-desktop-management-7x/zdm7-imaging-netware-windows-servers/310833-pxe-imaging-kernel-patches-r8169-link-down.html
“As of 27 May 2007, in kernel 2.6.21.3, you may experience the issues
with the r8169 driver if you dual boot Windows on some systems. Windows
by defaults disables the NIC at Windows shutdown time in order to
disable Wake-On-Lan, and this NIC will [...]
