Lair of The Phœnix.
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CentOS 9 MythTV 35
MythTV 35 for CentOS 9
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Unable to save files from Linux Chrome
I had a problem after upgrading to Fedora 41 where Google Chrome would not save files. I’d had to use Chrome, which I keep lying around for odd use cases, as my credit card company saw fit over Christmas to start rejecting Firefox (although that finally seems to have been resolved), and then I found…
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Customising powerline for bash
I prepared this as an answer to a Stack Overflow question, before realising at the last moment that the OP wasn’t using powerline at all, but bash-it (a more basic alternative). So instead of losing the write-up, which I think is handy due to the dearth of practical examples of tweaking powerline, I thought I’d…
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Controlling Sonos via a Google Home and Google Assistant
I just bought a Google Home Mini to play with while they’re on a Black Friday offer. They don’t connect to Sonos by default yet, so I thought I’d try to do something about it …
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Fixing TV screen size via nVidia HDMI for MythTV
A bit of a brain-dump to record what I just (re?) did having bought a new telly and finding that the HDMI output of my MythTV PVR was overscanning so I was losing a large margin of picture around the edges.
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XFCE4 port of Hardware Monitor Applet
Just a quicky today: I’d briefly adopted the GNOME 2 Hardware Monitor Applet, only to find GNOME 3 dropping support for such applets. However, all is not lost!
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Ode to Amazon’s automated systems
A week or so ago I received a parcel from Amazon. It was addressed to me, but inside the only thing was an HP inkjet cartridge (I own a Canon printer) and the receipt was someone else’s (their name, address, etc., nothing to do with me). Turns out, Amazon can’t cope with this sort of…
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Adding a guest WiFi connection to a Technicolor broadband router
I recently had to switch out my older router to the latest PlusNet “stock” router as it was playing up. The old one had a “guest” WiFi capability which I liked, and so I set about trying to add it to the new one.
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HDMI Audio in Scientific Linux 6
I had expected that this was going to be a long post with excruciating detail on what I had to do to get audio out of my new PVR’s nVidia card HDMI output. But like all correct solutions, the answer was simple.
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Migrating from Visual SourceSafe to Subversion
We migrated from VSS to SVN some years ago, but the question of how to do it still crops up every now and again, so I thought I’d post my notes on the conversion process that I happened to use.
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