random notes, guides, and thoughts…
May 12, 2014
With the release of OpenELEC 4.0, XBMC 13 (Gotham) is now available! For those of us driving a media center with a Raspberry Pi, this is great news (there’s significant performance improvements on the RPI).
May 12, 2014
As discussed in the last post, I adjusted my dial plan to the following;
May 7, 2014
Picked myself up a Cisco SPA112 to replace the wonky built-in VOIP capability of my router. However, I seem to have some unusual behaviour. Namely, when I take my cordless phone off the hook, I only get about 4 seconds to start entering numbers before the ATA switches over to the “off hook alarm” mode and rejects any further digits. Unfortunately, the phone’s built-in dialer waits a few seconds before starting to dial, so it’s pretty random whether you can dial or not.
February 10, 2014
Edit 25th Feb: Discovered a bug in the logic, apparently UNION order isn’t guaranteed. Reworked the script so it does the right thing now.
January 26, 2014
So, I have two computers with three monitors each - my home setup (3 x 2560x1440 monitors) and my work setup (3 x 1920x1200 monitors). I want to have a collection of surround (ie, 16:3 aspect ratio) wallpapers and also to tile three regular 16:9 or 16:10 wallpapers so that one appears on each monitor.
December 26, 2013
Be warned! As of Christmas Day, the CyanogenMod nightlies for the GT-i9305 series have changed over to CyanogenMod 11.