Good news everyone! I’ve got a stable beta of a Plex player for the RPi. I’m bundling up a complete distro and installer for it so that it is average-joe friendly. Using the XBMC Port of OMXPlayer, along with twisted matrix DirectFB, and SDL,and thanks to some good friends on github who created the initial infrastructure, there is now an avahi (bonjour) discoverable plex frontend service running on the RPi. You can find the code...
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X11 Is a pain in the ass Configuring X11 is often seen to be one of the most difficult and annoying things about using Linux. Many distributions handle this automatically, and a basic configuration is actually handled pretty well by simply running “Xorg -configure”, but for more complicated setups, it is often quite a pain in the ass. Nvidia and Ati include their own configuration utilities (nvidia-settings and amdccle), but there are no such tools...
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Why did I move It wasn’t long ago that I was extolling the virtues of Archlinux, particularly in comparison to Ubuntu. I have to say, most of those still stand, as I believe Archlinux to be a lightweight, highly customizable distribution. However, for me, Gentoo gives an even higher degree of customizability. It seems that even the Arch community agrees, as [this comparison on Arch wiki ][https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions#Gentoo_Linux] points out that Gentoo is more customizable, though...
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Is it even possible? I have no idea. But I sure hope so - I’ve spent a week on it. A little background I have always had an interest in HTPCs (Home Theatre Personal Computers). My first experience with them was a Microsoft Xbox 1.0. I contend that, this was and perhaps always will be the best product that Microsoft has ever produced. It had one major problem though - the software on it was...
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Finally back… After a very long break, my blog is finally back online and pretty much fully functionaly. I’ve been pretty busy with a number of projects, not the least of which being my new job at Invenia, which have prevented me from posting on here much. The old blog was also located on my home server, which presented several logistics problems… I now have all of my servers consolidated into the amazon cloud. What’s...
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