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MythTV 0.22 Upgrade

13 Nov 2009 11:21:0$ +0000

Version 0.22 of MythTV was release last week and I just had a go installing it on my Fedora 11 system.

Site Redesign

20 Oct 2009 23:09:06 +0100

I have been working on an alternative design for HyperDrifter.com for a while. Up until the 15^th of September 2009, the site was running on the Joomla CMS software and, although it provides practically everything you could need for a website, I wanted faster load-times for pages and also to try to simplify the process of writing content. I also did not want to have to worry about keeping the software and its extensions up-to-date. This post summarises my work on some software to help me do this.

Mad Men: Original Score Volume 1 (2008)

19 Jun 2009 13:56:13 +0100

The first release of David Carbonara's original score for the television series Mad Men features music from a number of key scenes in the first and second seasons.

Rio Bravo (1959)

19 Jun 2009 12:30:29 +0100

Rio Bravo (1959) is an enjoyably low-key story about a sheriff's struggle to keep a murderer locked up in a small town jail until a federal marshal arrives.

Links for 09 June 2009

09 Jun 2009 11:47:00 +0100

A list of links that I came across over the past few weeks.

Fixing Floating-Point Errors with the GCC Compiler

05 Mar 2009 15:39:00 +0000

Depending on your machine architecture, you may experience some variability in the results of floating-point-based operations in C or C++ code. For example, the expression sin( val ) == sin( val ) may evaluate as false on an Intel Pentium 4 processor if the variable val holds a floating-point value with double precision. This page highlights a solution for this problem which is provided by the GCC compiler.

tidy-cache - a YUM Plugin to Tidy the Cache of RPM Files

13 Nov 2008 16:56:00 +0000

This page provides documentation and other information on tidy-cache, a plugin for the YUM software management system found in many Linux distributions. It helps to control the size of the cache directory by deleting old RPM packages files.

tidy-rpm-cache - a Script to Tidy a Cache of RPM Files

02 Oct 2008 13:27:00 +0100

This page provides documentation and other information on a Python script to tidy a cache of RPM package files by deleting those that have become obsolete. This script may be useful if you wish to minimise the disk space usage of locally stored update packages.

Links for 18 September 2008

18 Sep 2008 17:41:00 +0000

A list of links that I came across over the past few weeks.

Links for 02 September 2008

02 Sep 2008 13:19:00 +0000

A list of links that I came across over the past few weeks.