February 13th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jaap
Create a gzipped tarball containing all files that were modified today, in a given directory:
find . -mtime -1 -type f -print | xargs tar -czvf myarchive.tar.gz
List all files in the gzipped tarball:
tar -ztvf myarchive.tar.gz
February 1st, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jaap
During the holidays, I finally decided to order the Antec Fusion Remote Black. With my Logitech Harmony working, I felt I had to finally put it all together. Doing so also enabled me to reinstall the entire software system and set it all up properly. Here’s the pros, but beware: there’s cons also!
One of the major problems after putting all components into the new case, was the system kept on rebooting. Having spent hours and hours, one of my friends finally noticed an extra spacer that caused the short-circuit. Removing it was the key to a stable system. Software could be installed now!
Read more…
December 26th, 2008 / 2 Comments » / by Jaap
Now that I have got the Harmony working, I am reviewing my installation. Having seen some screenshots of XBMC, especially the Aeon Theme, I became enthousiastic immediately. I thought it was an Xbox-only programme, but it’s much more than that: packages are available for Mac, Linux and Windows. Here’s a report of the tries: although they have Ubuntu packages available, it appeared quite hard to install. Read along to find the key issue.
December 18th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Jaap
This post i a follow up to my previous post:
My new best friend: the Logitech Harmony 555 . After having played for several days with my new toy, and convincing others to buy the same, I figured it was about time to make the next step : hook up the remote to the mediacenter! While searching the net, I found some different stories. The official LIRC site stated:
… it’s technically not possible to use USB IrDA dongles …
… which was enough for me to not-buy a USB IR receiver. On the other hand, it should be possible to use an MCE receiver. Especially the 2005 edition is said to be easy to set up. Philips, producer of the official MCE 2005 receiver, have created a new receiver: the Vista version. The ‘problem’ with this one is, that it
… only works with Vista …
Maybe on Windows, but also on Ubuntu? Guess again…
