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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Screen Scraping Amazon Album Art for MythTV

Sunday, September 23, 2007

I wanted to get Album Art for all of my (newly ripped) songs on my MythTV box. 
Thierry has a nice perl script which finds album art on Amazon and automatically downloads it, but unfortunately for me the music plugin for MythTV has upgraded their database schema and the script no longer worked.  I am [...]

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Saving a mms streaming video to a file using mencoder

Friday, September 21, 2007

Copying a streaming video to a file using mencoder.
I wanted to watch Randy Pausch's last lecture on my home media PC as opposed to my laptop. It has MythTV, which can be used to watch any file on the hard disk. Unfortunately, you can't just download the a file, as his lecture is hosted by [...]

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Join now to get 3 credits at Paper Back Swap!

Thursday, September 20, 2007

PaperBackSwap.com is a service that I have used for the last several months and find extremely useful. They give you credits for sending a paperback to other members, and allow you to use your credits to request paperbacks. They also provide an easy to print mailing label and you can pay them to add [...]

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Encrypted home directory under Ubuntu linux 7.04 & 7.10

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Using directions from Felipe Alfaro Solana, I set up an encrypted home directory in Ubuntu 7.04. I only had one problem, that exhibited an error message as follows:
Command failed: Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.08 (2006-07-17)(compat) and kernel driver
This was caused by the dm_mod module not being loaded. I fixed it for the session by issuing [...]

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Listing of Atlanta/Decatur Digital OTA Channels

Monday, September 3, 2007

A list of the channels easily avaliable with a small amplified Radio Shack antenna from the Decatur Area:

2-1 -WSB-DT – ABC
2-2 (Blank, no signal)
5-1 WAGA – Fox HD
5-2 WAGA – Fox SD
11-1 WXIA-D NBC-HD
11-2 WXIA-D (NBC Weather, All the time!)
14-(1,2,3,4) – Ion subchannels.
17 – WTBS-HD – TBS
30-1 – PBS
36- WATL-D [...]

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