It’s been a while.  I’ve revisited the AVRDUDE patches I made to the Bus Pirate to make sure everything actually works with the version 5.11 AVRDUDE that comes with the Arduino 1.0 IDE.  I’ll also be gradually updating all my GoogleCode stuff to make sure that it works with the Arduino 1.0 IDE.

SElinux is a major security feature in CentOS (and Red Hat).  By default it’s in Enforcing mode, which means it enforces all sorts of security restrictions on what processes are allowed to do.  On my Microserver, I’ve intentionally been running in Enforcing mode so that I can get used to dealing with it, as well as for increased security.

I’ve either tested or used for an extended period of time several different media center products for the PC, so I thought I’d write some opinions I have about each one of them.  Take this with a grain of salt, since everyone’s requirements and aesthetic tastes are different.

Well, I gave MythTV a good go, but in the end I had to ditch it.  I had endless problems getting my USB tuners to come back up reliably after sleep, and I also had some strange crashes and other issues.

As discussed earlier, I’ve been rebuilding my Media Center with MythTV running on Fedora 15.  I’ve been having a number of … issues … with it.  Fortunately I’ve gotten a lot of them finally nailed down.

By default, Windows 7 will not allow access to the C$ administrative share, so you’ll have trouble getting BackupPC to work.  To solve this, run up Registry Editor and set the following registry key;