Monthly Archives: February 2009

Debian Lenny 5.0

Installed Debian Lenny 5.0 onto my AMD64 machine. Seems to run alright. I immediately got VMware Workstation installed and this operates nicely too. Operating system managed to pickup my native resolution correctly, of course currently only using an unaccelerated video … Continue reading

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Mythtv and PS3

As per Simon Rumble I found the PS3 to have a reasonable good UPnP client too. Although the PS3 wouldn’t play back recordings that had obivously had some modifications done. ie. cutlist changes etc. Once the recording goes into nuv … Continue reading

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Lack of customer service

Let me set the scene. My wife and I have owned a Topfield PVR for a number of years, so of course we recommended it to family and friends. Unfortunately the unit my mother purchased suffered a hardware failure within … Continue reading

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New car arrives

Saturday was the big day, the new car after arriving a week earlier, was finally available for pickup. So my wife and I managed to get everything sorted so that we could go pick it up. Snap below from iPhone. … Continue reading

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Bit of a warm one.

Well the weekend was certainly a warm one. No doubt about that. It was too hot to really do anything, so spent both days inside with the A/C on. Looking forward to some cooler weather, especially since I plan on … Continue reading

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The joke that is Bigpond Tech Support Email

Back in December, when I was having issues with connectivity. Which oddly enough was a problem for most ISP’s, although everyone else had routed traffic over alternate links. Bigpond on the other hand made uses suffer for some 2-3 days … Continue reading

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Interesting iPhone Applications

In the last few days I came across the following two iPhone Applications, which I must say are pretty cool. I actually bought both of them too. CubeCheater iShoot The second application can be downloaded as a Lite version for … Continue reading

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