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Sunday, 27th November 2011

Installing CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha 3 on my HP TouchPad

Posted by root at 14:16 in CyanogenMod

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I have just finished installing CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha 3 on my HP TouchPad. Its gorgeous. I cant say I ever become a fan of WebOS, unlike some I've talked to it never grew on me and the rare times when I did want to make use of it the App Market was far too over priced and in my experience limited, but now with Android the device 'sings'

Thursday, 24th November 2011

Normalize XBMC media volumes with ALSA on-the-fly

Posted by root at 10:03 in Linux

One problem with my ever growing collection of movies and tv is the volume wars between formats. Add in music video downloads from iTunes and Amazon and the variabations become extreme. With a little creative searching I found an addon that can be added to the ALSA sounds system on my Ubuntu installation to this work on-the-fly

Friday, 8th July 2011

Installing XBMC for Ubuntu Natty 11.04 from APT Repository

Posted by root at 10:01 in Ubuntu

Recently I was trying to install the incredible XBMC on a new Ubuntu Natty 11.04 installation, but found some problems after following the instructions on the XBMC Wiki. This is the extra step I had to follow to get everything working the way I would have expected.

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Wednesday, 4th May 2011

Do I need an Anti-Virus on Linux?

Posted by root at 14:46 in Linux

I was recently ask by a new Linux convert now they should go about acquiring an Anti-Virus application and whether I would recommend McAfee of Norton. Without going into my own opinions about which might be better or worse I aim to clear up some of the confusion surrounding Linux Anti-Virus applications and what they are actually intended for.I was recently ask by a new Linux convert now they should go about acquiring an Anti-Virus application and whether I would recommend McAfee of Norton.