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Following on from my post about building Debian virtual machines with libvirt, I’ve now got automated installations of Debian Lenny using the preseeding method. Coupling this with using virt-install, I can have a Debian virtual machine installation in only a few minutes. No questions asked.
The virt-install command contains an extra-args argument, where you can fill-in [...]

A plugin for ABC iView on XBMC has been released. See this page for progress of ABC iView on XBMC.
I just rewrote the iView plugin for XBMC.. and it’s far more robust. There is still lots to finish, but it kinda works. This was spurred on by someone actually trying it out, and then me [...]

A plugin for ABC iView on XBMC has been released. See this page for progress of ABC iView on XBMC.
Following on from the last post about using rtmpdump to grab ABC’s iView programs, I’ve made a start on an XBMC plugin.. with the hope of eventually working on a Boxee plugin also.
To start with, you’ll [...]

A plugin for ABC iView on XBMC has been released. See this page for progress of ABC iView on XBMC.
I’ve done a little bit of work since my last post on this, and a couple of people have asked for my stuff. Here goes.
Firstly, you can use RTMPdump to download the iView stream on your [...]

A plugin for ABC iView on XBMC has been released. See this page for progress of ABC iView on XBMC.
I think it would be really neat to use ABC’s iView on the Xbox Media Centre (XBMC) and/or Boxee. Honestly, who really wants to watch TV on their computers? Haven’t we evolved from that now?
I’ve got [...]

The aim of this was to use the standard CentOS/RHEL Xen Dom0 tools to boot a Debian Lenny DomU.
I found plenty of instructions for doing CentOS DomU under a Debian Dom0, but not the other way around. So, this is a little how-to documenting the little things that need to be overcome.
I also wanted the [...]

It’s actually more difficult than you might think. From the bit of googling that I did, it seems that you can’t just ‘clone’ and LVM logical volume, while it’s running.
One method I found was to use the ’snapshot’ feature of LVM to create a ‘frozen image’ copy of the logical volume, which is then suitable [...]

MythTV is a wonderful project, which I’ve been running for nearly 12 months. In the AFL season 2007, I was downloading the Geelong games from the internet. Unfortunately, you’re at the mercy of whomever was encoding the game, in terms of quality. By Geelong winning the premiership last season, most of the games were broadcasted [...]

I had everything working quite well on my Macbook Pro (Core 2 Duo) with Ubuntu Feisty, but due to some badness from the shitty, shitty ATI fglrx driver, I couldn’t use Gutsy with everything working.
The new kernel in Gutsy moved from the SLAB allocator to the SLUB allocator. (Btw, I have no idea what that [...]

I splashed out a bit, and bought myself a new toy. It’s the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, running Linux.
I’m still getting used to it, but it seems quite good so far. More to come..