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Display Year In MythTV Recordings

If using the “MythCenter 1.4” theme for Myth Frontend then when looking at PVR recordings it only displays the “Short Date”. The short date is just the day and month, it does not include the year. Thus it looks like: So in the above case for “Asterix and Obelix – Mansion of the Gods” the… read more…
ESX boot hangs – stuck on Initializing IOV

I got the following error when booting ESXi 6 from a USB key but I believe the same problem is possible for other scenarios. So what I am talking about is you start ESX and it does the initial phase with the progress line along the top and then it floods the screen with yellow… read more…
Enabling SSH access to Debian live USB

This is just a short post describing how you can USB boot from a Debian Live USB key and from this enable SSH access to the box. I do this often and it can be quite handy. First create the USB key using the instructions in the post Create a Debian Live USB flash drive.… read more…
Setting up notifications for Open Media Vault

My reason for setting up a NAS server was to have a simple and reliable storage mechanism on my network. Choosing a NAS server and setting up a mirrored drive gives me this, but it loses an awful of its appeal if a drive fails and I don’t know about it. If notifications don’t work… read more…
Backing up Open Media Vault

Backing up OMV can be a challenge as it doesn’t have any backup functionality. While there are solutions like Clonezilla and rsync the simplest is “dd” or “dcfldd”. You should read the article Installing Open Media Vault which explains how I suggest you do it so you don’t have to backup a 250GB hard drive.… read more…
Open Media Vault

Having lost a drive recently I have decided to use take old HP SFF desktop and chuck in 4GB of RAM and run up an Open NAS box of some type. I did the usual hunting around reading reviews looking at specs and came to the same conclusion, FreeNAS was the best but was too… read more…
Vlogs

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How to get the mod_jk connector for Apache

If you want to run Tomcat from behind Apache as many people do then you need to find a method of sending requests from Apache to Tomcat. One of the popular mechanisms is to use “mod_jk”. The problem is that Apache or httpd does not generally come with mod_jk. I had this problem when I… read more…
Easter Holiday with my Dad

One day at Easter time I went to a farm up North with my dad. The farm belonged to my Dad’s ex boss. The farm was in Warkworth. First we went in the house. Next we went outside to ride the pony called Richard. I rode him down the driveway outside. Then we went back… read more…
How do I find the version of Subversion used by my SVN server

Overview You connect to an Subversion server that you don’t manage yourself – perhaps a company one or open source project, and you want to know what version of Subversion is it running. Resolution 1. Login to your Subversion repository using Firefox or a variant of Firefox like Waterfox 2. Select: Tools | Web Developer… read more…