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On February 7, the SBS digital television channels in Melbourne (Mount Dandenong transmitter) moved from UHF 536.625 MHz to VHF 184.5 MHz. SBS now use the old analogue VHF channel 7 that was made available when all the analogue stations were finally switched off late last year. Currently the only station remaining on the UHF […]
Recently I’ve been evaluating Elementary OS, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Precise (12.04 LTS). Despite the Elementary desktop looking like they’ve cloned parts of the Apple OS X desktop a little too well I appreciate what they’re trying to achieve.
With Ubuntu itself, after about 10.10, their desktop environment started heading in […]
Using the SQLite Integration 1.4 plugin on a newly-installed WordPress 3.6.1 site, if I post a new article with the following text:
Between foo and bar.
The text of the post is deleted (eaten) after I click Publish.
It is saved as a Draft post, with a title but no text.
Other articles are […]
About four years ago when I ran Windows XP on my main desktop PC I used a small bit of software named Middle Mouse Button. It reassigns the middle button of a mouse to act as a left double-click (or right double-click if you use a left-handed mouse). On modern computer mice the middle […]
I’ve belatedly switched my blogging software from Pyblosxom to WordPress (with a SQLite backend). Pyblosxom is elegant in its simplicity but WordPress makes it much easier to add or update posts remotely, among other things. Prior to Pyblosxom I used the original Perl-based Blosxom.
I’ll be manually migrating old […]
A short addendum to my previous post…
I forgot to explain the reason I decided to write my own scheduler. I could’ve used cron or atd, but those daemons aren’t the most user-friendly to quickly set schedules for. cron may be standard on Linux and BSD systems but the format is arcane, error-prone and non-intuitive. […]
Recently for various reasons my blog has become a very low priority, but I should belatedly fulfil a promise I made in the last post where I mentioned a Python script for recording digital television in Linux.
To run the script the only system requirements are a working DVB device (eg. PCI or USB tuner) that tzap can […]
About two years ago I switched operating systems from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux on my main desktop PC. One of the things I wanted to do was watch digital free-to-air (FTA) TV using this setup. I have a Twinhan Alpha USB DVB receiver which is recognised by Ubuntu automatically, so it was just a […]
Back in August 2007 podcast pioneer Dave Slusher requested a method to take an Apple iTunes Music Store (ITMS) podcast link and translate it to return the standard XML feed of a podcast. It didn’t take long for me to write a quick and dirty Python program to do the work, but […]
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