So after building the new HTPC and installing mplayer, I noticed Mplayer2 was installed, this lead to some problems, including horrible video pixelation. After digging around the forums I finally ran across a write up from Andrew Strong over at … Continue reading
Well it’s been another year, and another Lustre User Group meeting. There were many interesting discussions which took place. Though in general I found the most useful session to be after the LUG was completed. The developer meeting, for me … Continue reading
One thing that’s been constantly bugging me, as well as my wife is the fact that in general, Samba (SMB) connectivity from our Windows 7 machines is spotty at best. In general we can connect, and transfer data to and … Continue reading
As an update to my earlier post Juniper NCSVC and Linux 3.19 I can confirm that the 4.0 RC6 kernel resolves the connectivity issues I was experiencing earlier. Likely earlier kernels in the 4.0 line have fixed this issue as … Continue reading
So recently I decided to add one of these dimmers to my kitchen lighting, which is on a standard 3-way (double switch) circuit. The folks at home depot, as well as all of the available documentation (including the box it … Continue reading