themoviedb.org, helping XBMC and other media centres
I signed up for an account on themoviedb.org this evening when I couldn’t find a movie through the XBMC lookup. XBMC uses themoviedb.org as one of the movie lookup sources. It turns out the movie, Stone Cold, existed in the database as Jesse Stone : Stone Cold, but lookups didn’t find it. So I added [...]
Playing mp3s and DVDs in Ubuntu Linux
One of the things we do most on our systems is play music and movies. If you buy a computer without an operating system and then install your own operating system one of the details you normally have to take care of is installing codecs to play mp3 files and DVDs. Despite the scary name [...]
What you should know about inexpensive notebooks
It’s back to school time (when this was first drafted), and some retailers are hoping you’ll go out and buy a new notebook/laptop/netbook for the event. There was a time when buying a notebook meant laying out at least $1,000. Now there’s a very large variety of sub-$1,000 notebooks and a significant amount of sub-$500 [...]
Changing a Windows XP password remotely
I needed to change my Windows domain login password recently. It’s a very simple process sitting in front of the Windows workstation, but I recently I disconnected my Windows workstation from my monitor, keyboard and mouse, leaving only the network cable and power cabled plugged in. I was sick of trying to catch my KVM [...]
New conky configuration
After a lot of frustration with the weather portion of conky I finally learned that the weather.com script that’s part of the script I was using won’t work anymore because weather.com has decided to commercialize the service. And the cost isn’t cheap – an entire years service of Myth TV listings is basically the same [...]
