Category: Geek

Making XBMC work on Mint 12, with HDMI Audio Passthrough and LIRC

December 11, 2011 - Computers , Geek , Home , Home Automation , Linux - by admin - No Comments

I’ve got a Dell Optiplex 755 hooked up to my Yamaha amp and surround system, and it was about time XBMC was installed on it. It uses a low profile Nvidia GeForce 8400GS for VDPAU acceleration and HDMI audio. These are some rough notes I took whilst setting it up. […]

Setting up the Squeezebox Receiver

November 30, 2011 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Technology - by admin - No Comments

I’ve got a variety of Squeezebox Receivers dotted about the house, playing synchronized music and audio on demand. Due to the lack of a remote control requirement (using the Android controller), I opted to get the receivers on their own. However, the setup procedure is highly dependent on the remote […]

Making OpenDAB, FEC and the Psion Wavefinder work on x64

November 7, 2011 - Geek , Internet , Linux , Radio - by admin - 3 Comments

I’ve had a Psion Wavefinder for a while now, and it’s never really worked that well due to the rather bad combination of poorly written amateur radio related software, out of date build environments (see the previous argument), and the fact that most amateur radio enthusiasts seem to use Windows […]

Bifferboard powered weather station

November 6, 2011 - Geek , Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

So, I’ve been busy hacking bits and bobs together. End result is a VPN endpoint with a weather station attached to it. Win! http://lodge.glasgownet.com/tech/remote-bifferboard-powered-weather-station/

Checking time over SNMP

November 3, 2011 - Geek , Linux , Windows - by admin - No Comments

Not content with watching clocks drift on servers, I thought it might be prudent to keep an eye on such things. We already monitor our NTP server drift with Nagios, so why not extend it to all of our Linux servers? The only catch here is that not all servers […]