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How to spindown(sleep) a SATA hard disk drive after being idle (Linux)

[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 [...]

HOWTO install My Media System 1.1.0 (MMS) on Fedora9

My Media System (MMS) is a slim, easy and free Media Center for Linux. After a very long release candidate phase (RC1-9), is MMS 1.1.0 about raring to go. I’m personally running my MMS 1.1.0 on a Fedora8, what hasn’t been easy in the past, since the main focus seems to be on Debian, or [...]

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HDTV (DVB-S2) with VDR 1.7.0 and a SkyStar HD on Ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 and CoreAVC (Intrepid Ibex)

First of all, there are good installation HOWTOs for Linux out there, which describe the set up of a HDTV capable VDR. I used this installation HOWTO and a satellite dish with the appropriate feeds. (look for HDTV channels here). I’ve played with VDR more than a half a year ago, and all was fine, [...]

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XBMC installation on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) x86_64 + short review

[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.

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