Year: 2007

  • Robots.txt 2.0

    Since the introduction of google maps streets view two days ago, people are going crazy in trying to zoom in and find hidden gems in those captured images. If you don’t know about this click on the link above and you’ll see what I’m talking about, or you can just go to maps.google.com and zoom…

  • How to use a custom DNS name with blogger

    So I finally broke down and registered nerdlogger.com with easydns.com. I’ve used their service for my own ayromlou.ca canadian domain, so I figured, why not. Under ayromlou.ca I was doing all kinds of redirects to get www.ayromlou.ca to point to nerdlogger.blogspot.com (which is the standard addressing scheme for blogs on blogger). Now, here is how…

  • Screencasts of Installing MythTV Via MythDora 4.0

    MythDora 4.0–Fedora Core 6.0 plus MythTV costumizations–is out. It is designed to format your hard drive and install everything needed for a fully functional MythTV System. MythPVR.com has created a three-part screencast of the installation process covering MythDora installation, configuration, and MythTV setup.

  • The Perfect Beer

  • You wanna be a star??…….

    Well now that the dl.tv guys are doing it, I guess everyone will want to know. Yes, you can go to these websites and “ITube” yourself…..LIVE!!!! Well, go on then, there is a world of people waiting to see you pick your nose on the net :-) http://www.ustream.tv/ http://www.stickam.com/

  • YouTube….Better!!!

    Okay just came across Stage6…..and one word….WOW. I think we finally have something that will compete directly with TV (SD or HD) that is actually flexible enough for artists to create custom frame sizes in (think 2.35 aspect for your youtube movies with divx codec). Very nice….. Check it out at: http://stage6.divx.com/

  • Getting HP IPAQ Bluetooth Folding Keyboard to work with Nokia N800

    Okay this was relatively simple….. Make sure you can either ssh and become root and/or run xterm and become root on your N800. Ssh to the N800 and become root (either through sudo grainroot or something similar) Goto kbdd‘s website and download kbdd.tar.gz onto your N800. Extract it to root’s home directory using tar -zvlf…

  • Streaming DV with VLC in Linux…..

    Thought this might be useful for someone: Install the libraw1394 and libavc1394 If you want to be able to stream from a DV camcorder, then you need to install the libraries libraw1394 and libavc1394: If you use a Fedora Core distribution then you just need to install the libraries using: %yum update %yum install libraw1394…

  • HDHomeRun: Multicast

    Using hdhomerun_config command you issue the following (after tuning into the channel ofcourse): 1) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/target none2) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/channel qam:a) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/streaminfo3) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/program4) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/target MCast Address is in range of: 224.0.0.0 –> 239.255.255.255

  • HDHomeRun: Ports and LED layout

    Front: Single LED – Power. Window – left to right:– Ethernet link.– Tuner 0 streaming video.– Tuner 1 streaming video.– IR detector. Back: Looking at the back – left to right:– Power.– Ethernet.– Tuner 1.– Tuner 0.