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  • MythTV: how to start/stop recording

    When watching live TV in MythTV, press R to start recording. Now, I have yet to find a simple hotkey to stop the recording right then and there – pressing R again does stop it, but it also deletes the recording (or cancels it).

    To stop the recording, you first need to exit the watching mode by pressing Esc. Next, from the main menu, go to Manage Recordings and then Upcoming Recordings. From the list available there you can then select the program currently being recorded with the up and down arrows. When selected, pressing Enter finally gives you the choice of stopping the recording (again, selectable with up and down arrows and the Enter key).

    When I began to look for the solution for this problem, I was amazed (and truth be told, extremely frustrated as well) that Google didn’t have a direct answer to what seemed to me to be a pretty obvious question. However, it looks like the operating logic behind MythTV is based heavily on using program guides and scheduling instead of on what is perhaps a little old-fashioned way, controlling the start and stop of recording manually.

  • Ubuntu (Gnome): roskakori työpöydälle

    Quakenetin #ubuntu.fi:n wikin vastaavaa ohjetta suomenkieliselle Gutsylle soveltaen: päävalikon (käynnistä-valikon) kuvakkeen päällä oikean hiirennapin valikosta Muokkaa valikoita, siellä Sovellukset > Järjestelmätyökalut > Asetusten muokkaus -kohtaan väkänen. Sen jälkeen päävalikosta Järjestelmätyökalut > Asetusten muokkaus ja /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible -kohtaan väkänen.

  • Solved: Ubuntu: Miro 1.1.1 crashing on start

    This one was pretty easy, as the working solution for me was available directly from Miro Forums. After shutting Miro down (or rather, after it has shut itself down), do:

    cd ~
    rm -rf .miro
    rm -rf .gconf/apps/miro
    sudo apt-get remove sun-java6-plugin

    Obviously, this is not a good solution if you need to use Java on the web. For me it’s not a problem, since I like to have the Java plugin disabled anyway, for security and speed.

  • Super Lego Mario

    M. Hickox (via Shoutwire)

  • Ubuntu: combining Applications, Places and System menus under one Launcher

    Took me quite a while to find a way to do this, because the default Gnome menu bar is not very intuitively customizable (you can’t drag and drop System into Apps, and Places is nowhere to be found in the customization window), and yet that’s how I first conceptualized what I was trying to achieve should be done.

    But you’re not meant to be able to combine these launchers into one on your own; instead, you need to remove the entire menu bar from the panel and then replace it with the Main Menu applet (from the Add to panel window). The Main Menu combines all three menus under one launcher, visualized with the Ubuntu circle logo by default.

  • Notes and a workaround: Firefox 2.0.0.11 (Ubuntu) Segfaults at restart, & Stylish problem with userstyles not being applied

    I began migrating my Firefox extensions from Windows to Ubuntu by installing Extension List Dumper in Windows’ Firefox, and then working my way through the list generated by it in Ubuntu. However, at some point I discovered that Stylish‘s userstyles were no longer being applied, and that Firefox could no longer restart itself using the Restart button which becomes available after installing an extension.

    What’s worse, using the command-line to start Firefox I discovered that it did attempt to restart when told to, but it only resulted in a Segmentation fault.

    I initially suspected that there was some sort of a conflict between the beautiful NASA Night Launch theme and Stylish, but after starting with a new, clean profile and installing extensions one by one instead of en masse, I finally traced the problem back to Colorzilla, one of my favorite extensions. Without it, everything seems to be working, and with it, Firefox segfaults two, sometimes three times in a row before finally restarting. So the workaround to the problems listed in the title is to uninstall Colorzilla.

    The problematic version of Colorzilla I was using was the one currently available from Mozilla’s Add-ons page, 1.0. A new Beta version is available from Colorzilla’s official home page, which also mentions problems with Ubuntu and FC5, and suggests a solution which, if it works, should allow you to keep using the non-Beta version of Colorzilla. I haven’t tested either of these solutions.

    I haven’t come across these issues with Colorzilla under Windows.

    When tracking down this problem, the Restart Firefox extension turned out to be quite handy.

  • Solved: Ubuntu, Acer AL707 and “Input not supported”

    After installing Ubuntu 7.10 I could see it was still suffering from the annoying little bug all previous versions have: instead of the neat splash screen during booting, all I got was the LCD’s warning sign saying “Input not supported”.

    After finding rest of the shiny new OS very likeable I decided to solve this problem at last. It was safe to proceed on this bold assumption that I could, because in all Ubuntu installations I’ve done the problem has not manifested itself until the first booting into the freshly-installed system. That is to say, the live CD does not have this problem, but displays the splash with no problems, so I knew there must be a way to make it work.

    There was a helpful link on the Ubuntu Forums on how to fix a faulty splash screen. In the end, it was simply a matter of finding the right display mode -describing parameters for a couple of config files. As for the parameters, I initially tried to find them from the live CD, but apparently it’s using a different system from the one used by an installed Ubuntu (GRUB), so this path turned out to be harder than a simple trial and error.

    First I tried a full-blown 1280×1024 pixels with 16.8M colors, which is the display mode that the desktop starts in and works just fine, but that didn’t work – which I probably could have guessed from the fact that the other config file, usplash.conf, already had this resolution.

    Then I thought about the way Windows XP boots on this system: the logo looks a bit crude, as if with a lower resolution and color depth than on the desktop. So I tried 800×600 with a modest 256 colors – and already on the way down Ubuntu now displayed the splash screen! The reboot revealed final success: the splash screen now works.

    To be short but exact, what I did to make it work was:

    1. sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
      so that at the very end of the first kernel line, after “splash” , I added
       vga=771
      – this corresponds to the SVGA mode of 800×600 pixels with 256 colors.
    2. sudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf
      so that
      xres=800
      yres=600
    3. sudo update-initramfs -u -k `uname -r`

  • Scientology Google bombed

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  • Linux ratkaisi koulun rahapulmat Kauniaisissa

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  • Don’t DMCA me, bro!

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