Tuesday 23 November 2010
Checking video codec information via the command-line
Here are a couple of commands to get he information about a video file in Linux (bitrate etc): -
ffmpeg -i foo.avi
mplayer -vo null -ao null -identify -frames 0 foo.avi
Tuesday 16 November 2010
VirtualBox piix4_smbus Error
VirtualBox 3.2.10 gives me the following error message when booting Ubuntu 10.10:-
This error is caused by VM having no smbus but Ubuntu always trying to load the module. It doesn't affect anything but is a bit annoying - to fix...
piix4_smbus 0000.00.07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized - upgrade bios or use force_addr=0xaddr
This error is caused by VM having no smbus but Ubuntu always trying to load the module. It doesn't affect anything but is a bit annoying - to fix...
Friday 29 October 2010
Serial connection to Seagate Dockstar via FTDI USB-Serial Cable
Here's a quick summary of how to use a FTDI data cable to connect to a Seagate Dockstar.
Connecting an Arduino to a Seagate Dockstar
Here's a quick summary of how to connect your arduino to a Seagate Dockstar.
Sunday 14 February 2010
Creating EFI String for Asus 8400GS Silent
There are a number of ways of getting your graphics card working within OS X (in order of difficulty) : -
- Adding "GraphicsEnabler=Yes" to Chameleon /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist
- Adding EFI string to Chameleon /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist
- Using an injector such as NVInject or NVEnabler
- Patching your DSDT file
Saturday 23 January 2010
Sunday 10 January 2010
Installing Torrentflux on the Viglen MPC-L
This is a quick guide to installing Torrentflux on my Viglen MPC-L.
Wednesday 6 January 2010
Pictures of Hard Drive Swap in Revo
Here are some pictures of swapping the hard drive in my Acer Aspire Revo.
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Saturday 2 January 2010
Windows 7 and Samba Shares
This is a quick guide to setting up Samba file sharing on my Viglen MPC-L server which is running Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS. The client is a Windows 7 machine – no changes to the registry or local security policy were needed. The following applies to the version of samba from the repositories - smbd version 3.0.28a.
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