Have you ever imported movies and TV show episodes into your Apple iPad and have them show up as generic videos, not movies or TV shows? Worse, these videos show up without a preview image, just a totally black square? And are the episodes nicely grouped under the TV show’s…
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It was quiet, peaceful Tuesday night when I attempted to log into my Ubuntu Linux server as the root user. Permission denied, I got back. I tried it again. And again. Access denied. What the heck? I’m sure it was the correct password. I then tried all the passwords that…
3 CommentsRecently, my trusty 2.4Ghz wireless G router (a Netgear WGR614) died after many years of service. I went looking for a new router and found that the information on which router to get was not clear or conclusively. The routers that people agreed were the best cost easily over $100.…
Leave a CommentIf you have ever wanted to post a movie on your website (instead of using Youtube and other similar services), the steps below might help you get started. I will provide instructions for converting a movie AVI file from my digital camera into a Flash Video (FLV) file for posting…
Leave a CommentIn this post, I will outline the steps necessary to compile the VLC Player for Android devices. As a pre-requisite, please see my post about installing Eclipse Indigo for Android Development on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Prepare Your System for VLC Compilation: Download the latest Apple Xcode development tool…
4 CommentsI decided to install the latest version of Eclipse, Indigo, and configure it to do Android application development. My specific final target is to build the VLC Player for Android. Below are my notes for installing such an Eclipse configuration for Android development on a clean Mac OS X Snow…
1 CommentI recently bought an iMac for my sister. While setting it up, the Software Update would keep aborting due to network disconnects. While testing, I noticed my wireless G connection would start off fast, then drastically slow down, then pause for a minute, disconnect/reconnect, and finally just unable to connect.…
Leave a CommentI was asked for help to transfer a cassette tape to an audio CD. I found a great webpage, How to transfer a tape to a CD using Audacity, which provided most of the info. (Audacity is a free audio editing program.) The basic idea is to record from cassette…
1 CommentWe decided to migrate from a virtual OpenSuSE Linux server running on my desktop to a dedicated server hosting company. Unfortunately, I missed the OpenSuSE selection as an operating system choice and ended up choosing Ubuntu 64bit. Below are the initial steps I took to setup our development environment on…
Leave a CommentRecently, I had to setup a LAMP environment on a temporary CentOS 5.6 Linux server. (CentOS is the open source equivalent to the Red Hat Linux operating system.) Pleasantly, using Yum (Yellow dog Update, Modified), which is the CentOS and Red Hat RPM package manager, makes the task super simple.…
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