Hmm I’ve been tinkering with my Gallery and I think it’s time for a reinstall due to the fact that it’s the original one from like 3 servers ago so quite a bits changed since then.
Good God….
Just going through a cupboard looking for something and it made me realise how much I.T stuff I still have, I need to have a serious clearout as I think a lot of it would be destined for the rubbish heap but also found a couple of things that I can sell.
Gallery Compression
After a quick look at my Gallery i’ve noticed some of the files are to large and one album is 1gig which I know in real terms is not a lot but it does make backups etc more painfull so I think i’m going to have a play to get the size of it down.
Total Control Remote
After the boy resetting my Total Control Remote for like the fourth time and giving up using the search facility of the remote which involves prssing a button like 100’s of times until you find the right one I decided to scour the web for the right code. After some digging I found out that the Wharfedale DV832B Freeview Box is actually a Goodmans GDB3 Clone so I entered the code for Goodmans freeview box 1307 and low and behold it worked!. I quickly wrote down the code for furture reference but also wanted the code for my TV without entering all the ones for Panasonic again to find it and that’s where the ‘Blink Back Function’ comes in….
Press TV
Press and hold SETUP until POWER button blinks twice.
Enter 990 (POWER button blinks twice again).
Press 1 (number of blinks is first digit of code – eg. zero blinks means first digit of code is zero)
Press 2, and count number of blinks for second digit of code.
Press 3, and count number of blinks for third digit of code.
Press 4, and count number of blinks for fourth digit of code.
And voila found out my TV is 1964
Sky One
Good news after much battling Sky and Virgin have finally reached an agreement meaning Virgin customers now get Sky 1, I noticed I had it yesterday.
Virgin Update
Funnily enough the now Virgin owned http://www.cableforum.co.uk/ previously NTLhell is now offline, it was working fine 15mins ago I suspect they’ve taken it down themselves.
Virgin TV Down
Well @ 12:26 today my Virgin Tv died. Only terestrial channels are working with all the others saying ‘not currently subscribed’ tried reboot of box and no change, date on box says 1st Jan which is bad. After a bit of digging (with no help from virgin as all their status pages are down) I’ve found out that it’s a NATIONAL problem and all the computers at Virgin are down. Emails are down as well, they hope to have it fixed in about a hour. Also apparently it’s a power problem affecting the ex-Telewest areas.
Users in Wolverhampton, Bradford, Birmingham, Essex, West Lothian have all reported loss of TV but it appears broadband is still working ok (mine is as awell)
Firefox 2.0.0.17 Is Moody
After running this for a couple of days I found after a couple of hours use it would crash then when restarted using restore or fresh it would load and then immediately crash again. Thus i’ve rolled back to 2.0.0.16 using this link and disabled automatic updates until the bugs are ironed out. I should probably upgrade to v3 but I don’t like the look of it.
Zombie Strippers Review Coming Soon….
Well I will do it when i’ve finished watching it, got an hour way through then switched it off.
Hmmm windoze
Having spent most of the evening playing with an old Logitech Quickcam Express in Centos i’ve finally admited defeat. While I did get it working and displaying images/stream with the software having a CLI only the configuration is an absolute nightmare. Ive been trying to get an ‘all in one’ machine however it’s just not working. Despite having working wireless on Centos I feel like just ditching it for Windows 2000 and setup my NAS/Cam server etc on that.