November 18th, 2008 by acmelab68
[UPDATE] If your BIOS supports the AHCI standard, you may try to turn it on, and try to use the ‘hdparm -S1 /dev/sdn’ command again, or all the variants your distro suggests for powering down your hard disk.
BUT! Read here carefully about possible complications: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface. If you don’t have such an BIOS switch or it doesn’t work for you for other reasons, you may read ahead.[/UPDATE] Continue reading ‘How to spindown(sleep) a SATA hard disk drive after being idle (Linux)’
November 16th, 2008 by acmelab68
Panasonic HDC-SD100
This is a short story about my experience with these two cams. The Panasonic HDC-SD100 and the Canon HF100.
I had them two weeks for a thorough comparison. Well – I’m talking about a comparison for me, not the full blown comparisons and reviews like this one. I’ve studied the Internet article coming those days, but they all have been not really satisfying to my. I’m not that much of a pro regarding camcorders. But I know what I wanted. Continue reading ‘Panasonic HDC-SD100 vs. Canon HF100′
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November 10th, 2008 by acmelab68
cheese webcam application
I’m checking cyclic if the zero byte problem with the webcam application cheese is gone meanwhile.
So happened today, and no – it’s not. Since I really needed a stream badly today, I’ve looked again for a fix or workaround. But looking on the Internet for this bug reveals that this bug used to happen more often than one time. It’s sad, because I like this little nifty application.
And found only poor man’s workaround. Well, better then nothing. Continue reading ‘Poor man’s workaround for Cheese zero byte problem on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)’
November 10th, 2008 by acmelab68
[UPDATE] XMBC is now available as binary package for Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). Add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-intrepid/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-intrepid/ubuntu intrepid main
Perform an ‘apt-get update‘ before you install it via ‘apt-get install xbmc‘. If you intend to install XBMC manually (e.g. for development supporting reasons), go ahead reading. Continue reading ‘XBMC installation on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) x86_64 + short review’
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