For a while in MythTV 0.22 I was getting an error with MiroBridge saying Miro was not set up properly even though Miro worked just fine and I triple checked all my config files. I waited until upgrading to MythTV 0.23 to fix it because there was a much easier one button install option in …
I know what you are thinking, “how did my wife create that amazing (r)evolution commercial?” I would like to take a couple minutes to share with everyone how she made it, and what software I used to help her edit it. First of all here was the setup. She started with a piece of poster …
May 17, 2010 – 09:15
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By Rothgar
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Posted in How-to, Linux, Personal, Projects, Software, Thoughts, Video
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Tagged Contest, How-to, Open Source, palm, Software, Video, webOS
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Occasionally you need to get something done on a remote computer (or a clients computer) but the computer doesn’t have an easy way for you to connect to it. Luckily, if you have admin rights to the remote computer, you can still connect without needing to turn on remote desktop before hand. To do that …
AuthenTec, a company that makes fingerprint scanning devices, worked closely with Microsoft to enable fingerprint authentication without third-party software for Windows 7. Unfortunately, the settings to set up the fingerprint scanner do not always show up in the Windows 7 control panel. To set up the fingerprint scanner you usually can navigate to Control Panel …
This is a continuation of Part 1 and in this video I just walk you through a Mythbuntu installation and what options you want to use. The next parts will be about configuring the software past the initial installation. Sorry for the sound quality. I had to use my digital camera for video (which is …
I have been working on my MythTV box for some time now and finally got around to editing the first part of the how to I recorded when setting it up. The first part is just about setting up the hardware (not much new), but the second part (and probably third and forth) is going …
Just like my other two posts here is how you can modify your default user settings in Linux. This is similar to OSX but instead of “/System/Library/User\ Templates/English.lproj” being our template directory. It is “/etc/skel”. The skel directory stands for skeleton and it is where the default files and settings come from when you create …
After my post on modifying default user settings in Vista I thought I should follow up with how to accomplish a similar thing in OSX. For OSX there is only one way to accomplish this, and that way is the manual way. Just like with the manual way in Vista set up two user accounts, …
In Windows Vista and Windows 7 there are two ways you can create a modified default user profile. One is automatic and the other is manual. The automatic way is the recommended way according to Microsoft. However, you may run into some problems using this way so I will explain it the manual way too. …
If you set up a user account in Windows and you want to allow the user account to have a blank password you may find it a little difficult. In order to accomplish this you probably need to change a couple settings in Windows. The error message you probably got is: The password does not …
May 14, 2009 – 21:06
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By Rothgar
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Posted in 7, How-to, Vista, Windows, XP
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Tagged 7, How-to, Password, Security, vista, windows, XP
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