Tag: linux
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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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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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Using multiple fetchmail instances for instant gratification
For various reasons I have 10 email accounts spread across various servers for the family and me, and have always used an instance of fetchmail to round-robin connect to these and download all emails locally (see my previous post about cloud email). But this means I might have to wait 5-10 minutes to get new…
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Pain with grub2 when upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16
I meant to blog this when it was still fresh in my mind, but frankly, it was such a nightmare upgrading my Fedora 14 box to Fedora 16 that I just wanted to put it all behind me and get the basics working again.
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MythTV and the UK Digital Switchover
We had part one of the Digital Switchover in our area on Wednesday, so I finally had to bite the bullet and do a proper DVB channel re-scan on my MythTV box.
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Removing the large resize grip / button in GNOME Terminal
I like to have my GNOME Terminal scrollbar on the left (it reminds me of xterm then). But in GNOME 3 there’s a fugly triangular grip/button that sits in the bottom right obscuring text!
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Fedora 16 issues – part 2: Empathy
Finally seem to have gotten the GNOME IM tool “Empathy” partially working. What a pain in the jacksie that was.