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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.

Friday, 15th April 2011

Ubuntu Ubiquity Installer Failing on RAID Remnants

Posted by root at 09:55 in Linux

While trying to install Ubuntu on an old hard drive I started encountering problems using the Ubiquity installer. I was able to complete the installation using the alternative CD with dmraid (SATA or Fake RAID) disabled. After tracing the problem to the old drive having once been used in a BIOS RAID Array I next had to search for a means to removing the RAID information from the drive meta-data with out losing or destroying any data.