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Two MythTV systems on the same LAN

I have an aging MythTV frontend and separate backend that I need to upgrade. The plan of attack is to create a new system, get it running smoothly and work out a migration strategy. Then once the new system is working correctly switch over from old servers to new. All well and good except I… read more…
Backup and restore WordPress

I run WordPress on Apache 2.2 on RedHat. A WordPress instance, is just a bunch of PHP files, various image files and uploaded files and a database – that’s pretty much it. So to backup and restore you need to back up one directory tree and a DB. This post details what I did to… read more…
A block of a good time

We hadn’t really watched earlier seasons of TV3’s “The Block NZ” but when Josh was captivated by Australia’s “House Rules” I suggested he watch The Block NZ — as they say the rest is history. When the time came for the open home on October 25th 2014 we were in. We caught an early train… read more…
MythTV with HDHomeRuns on VLAN

My kit for this exercise is: SonicWall: TZ 215, (SonicOS Enhanced 5.9.1.10-1o) SonicWall setup This section creates the SonicWall stuff that takes the VLAN from the VMware ESX host and connects it to a SonicWall interface port. To keep everything simple because we are using the SonicWall interface “X2” we will call the zones “HDHomeRunX2”… read more…
New Train Driver At Manukau Live Steamers

Manukau Live Steamers, https://manukaulivesteamers.co.nz/ at Centre Park on Robertsons Road Mangere are a great place to go for some fun out for the kids. This club “was formed in 1980 to build a ground level track so members that were building miniature locomotives would have a track on which to run their locos.“ Adults and… read more…
Creating a Weaver Slider in WordPress

As a user of the Weaver WordPress theme I have moved to using the Weaver sliders in my posts. This is how to create a slider. Click on “Add Media”: Then: select the images you want, remember if you want to select multiple images use <ctrl><left click> Select “Create Gallery” and then click on “Create… read more…
Date Problems Converting A Dictionary To JSON

If you want to convert a dictionary object to JSON you would use something like: myJSON = json.dumps(myDict, indent=4, sort_keys=True) read more…
Reduce audio noise without video loss

I have a Nikon Coolpix S7000 compact camera that I use for most things. Its showing it’s age and it would be nice to replace it – one day. The other day I learned a painful lesson, this camera has terrible audio, specifically it adds a lot of hiss to recordings. I was using it… read more…
Replacing a system disk in Open Media Vault

Fortunately Open Media Vault, OMV, emails warnings when disks are failing. This is also true for the system disk. I have been getting warnings my old system disk is failing and this is what I did to fix it. First shutdown the PC and disconnect the RAID disks – just to ensure you don’t do… read more…
Persisting Azure Pipeline Variables

Azure pipelines are great, but a frustration is how to persist variables through phases in build and release pipelines. For two tasks running in the same agent phase you can pass variables a number of ways. If it is a Windows host you can do it through PowerShell or the O/S, otherwise you can drop… read more…