Technology – Page 10

We will miss you Russell

This Thursday, the 19th of February 2015, saw the passing of my father in law and Josh’s grandfather Russell. He was 82. Josh and Russell always got on and we will all miss him. At heart Russell was a family man leaving behind 6 children, 14 grandchildren and wife Pat. The core of his life… read more…
Fixing moiré patterns – text mixed with images

You will may have read the post removing moiré patterns using GIMP which describes how to remove moiré patterns from images using GIMP. This works well but you major headaches when you have an image that has a mixture of text and images. The problem is that if you apply a fourier transformation to text… read more…
Scanning tips – stop the reverse side shinning through

When scanning booklets, in particular, you can occasionally get images from the back of the thing you are scanning as above. Sometimes this is barely visible sometimes it is incredibly obvious and really annoying. The simple answer is to place a black sheet of paper or cardboard directly behind the page you are scanning: You… read more…
Fedora, Linux, IR Remotes, LiRC and MythTV

This post is mostly focused around getting a Microsoft MCE, Media Centre Edition, infra-red remote working with a MythTV frontend. However I will be covering as much as I can about about generic issues. My setup has Fedora 16 running with a hard drive install of Fedora LiveCD and I did this work in May… read more…
Segmentation faults uploading images in WordPress

When I tried uploading images I started getting a “HTTP error”. Not all images but quite a lot and it wasn’t just big images or even the biggest images. I noticed this just after the automatic upgrade to WordPress 4.0.1, but having said that I hadn’t done an upload since I had to rollback my… read more…
VMware vmci.sys error

When starting up a VM in VMware player you get the following popup: The solution to this is posted in numerous places but look for the *.vmx file associated with the VM you are running and look for the string: vmci0.present = “TRUE” You need to change this to: vmci0.present = “FALSE” read more…
MythTV, EPG, Terrestrial and HDHomeRun

Recently we switched our MythTV system from using satellite to terrestrial reception using the HDHomeRun by SiliconDust. Unfortunately what had been a perfectly working EPG under satellite turned into a one day wonder under terrestrial – I could only see one days listing. I should point out that we live in New Zealand and the… read more…
YankIt – Extract from Oracle using JDBC including blobs

This mini project is designed to allow you to extract and import data from an Oracle database using simple JDBC. Nothing even remotely startling about that, this is designed as a very simple command line tool that can be called from Ant. From what I can see there really isn’t anything out there that works… read more…
Gnome Schedule – a GUI to CRON or AT

If you want a recurring job or task to run on a Unix/Linux box the standard has been CRON. To add extra jobs or tasks can be done from a command line but I tend to be a lazy fellow so I look for a GUI front end that makes my life easier. At the… read more…
Cron job to check and if needed restart MythBackend

I am running MythTV 0.25 on Fedora 16. The problem I have is that sometimes the backend stops responding for reasons I have not figured out. Until I resolve the problem I want a mechanism that will restart the backend when it stops responding. The solution I took was to create shell script that would… read more…