We have a new digital flat panel at home hooked up to an Ubuntu box running MythTV. I can get the box to drive the display at 1280×720 (720p) but the manual says it can be driven at higher resolutions. I suspect I’ll be tinkering with modelines over the coming days.
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2Wire 2701HG gateway
Vic’s company supply her with a broadband connection and a 2Wire 2701HG gateway. The router is an ugly, chunky piece of kit, but it does most things more or less. It doesn’t have any support for DynDNS, I’ve had to install ddclient on Ubuntu to manage that for me. The manual for the router is [...]
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Invisio G5
I have a new bluetooth headset, kindly donated by Vic who doesn’t really like it that much. The manual is here, it’s a complicated little beast.
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Etymotic 6i Isolator Earphones
I took possession of a set of these headphones this week. Once you work out how to fit them into your ear - tip, wet them and slide them in until they feel a little uncomfortable, then tug your earlobe, seems to do the trick for me - the sound is amazing. And [...]
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Getting pidgin working with gtalk
After installing version 2.2.2 of pidgin I couldn’t connect to gtalk with it, due I believe to firewall restrictions here at work. I kept getting a disconnected error. Changing the following advanced properties sorted it for me.
Change the port to 80
Set the doman to talk.l.google.com
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Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard
I recently built a new machine to run MythTV on. It’s based on a Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard. The manual for it is here.
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Sony KV-28LS60U
My television is not what I thought it was, the manuals that came with it all those years ago are the wrong ones. According to the details burned into the back of the TV it is in fact a Sony kv-28ls60u and here’s the manual for it.
To access the engineer’s menu, to change the screen [...]
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Spread this number
Apparently this number is copyrighted by the MPAA
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Who knew numbers could be copyrighted? I quite like the number 34, perhaps I’ll stop people using that.
Oh and if you want to decrypt your HD-DVDs that long hex number should come in [...]