Ozzy’ Stuff

I previously posted my fix to get a partial fix to the weather page in MythWeb, but the doppler radar image wasn’t there… after further perusing i found a fix…

sudo ln -s /var/www/mythweb/data/ /var/www/

Seems this one was actually throwning a nice error in the Apache2 error.log…

[Thu Mar 05 05:02:58 2009] [error] [client 192.168.0.269] File does not exist: /var/www/data, referer: http://tv/mythweb/weather

Wheee… MythWeb weather works for me now (Mythbuntu 8.10)

Just installed Mythbuntu and was playing around with the MythWeb feature, really sweet. But, the weather page was only showing a horizontal rule.

Did some poking around with the module code. In the file /var/www/mythweb/modules/weather/handler.php It read:

// Get configured WeatherScreens from the database
$sh = $db->query(’SELECT screen_id, draworder
FROM weatherscreens
WHERE hostname=?’,
$_SESSION['settings']['host']);

Changing the last line to the following like I found in a similar section in init.php to:

hostname);

actually showed me my current conditions and three day forcast… the doppler radar image is missing though.

Hope it helps someone out there.

Tired of waiting on the timer when installing a Firefox extension? I was, so I typed in about:config into the address bar and added the following preference with a value of 0:

security.dialog_enable_delay

Hurray, no more delay :)

DiscSpan allows you to backup a directory of files to multiple DVDs on the Linux platform. If you had 20GB of photos, it would prompt you for 5 DVDs. It performs the backup at the file-level, meaning that a complete copy of each file is stored on a disc.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/discspan

NirSoft web site provides a unique collection of small and useful freeware utilities

Create panorama images from many smaller images with Autostitch. Written by Matthew Brown and David Lowe at the University of British Columbia, this software makes it east to create panoramas.

I was doing some spring cleaning and using Windows’ find file function, there was a problem though. Windows insisted on finding files inside of compressed zip files. I found a solution, NoFindInsideZip v1.0.

This small utility when ran allows you to de-select zip and/or cab files to be searched in. The changes are easily undone by simply running the tool again and choosing your preferences.

Just downloaded the Slackware Linux 12 DVD. I use Ubuntu as a dual boot to Windows XP which unfortunately I am still stuck with. So I broke out Microsofts VirtualPC 2004 (which is free nowadays) and proceeded to install Slackware… all went flawlessly, until I typed startx… KDE popped up.. but the mouse was inoperative.

After lots of googling i discovered there is an issue with the 2.6 kernels and some virtual software, bummer… During my search i say reference to something called VirtualBox, a GPL virtualization product. COOL.. i prefer to use FOSS (free and open-source software) anytime im able to.

So, i installed VirtualBox, preceded to load up Slackware, and bingo, 100% flawless install.