Digital TV is coming. Everybody can buy a dish and receiver to watch satellite TV. It isn’t issue. But an ordinary receiver cannot give you desired flexibility and fuctionality. How you can record a channel stream? How you can watch one channel and stream another? How, how, how. The answer is to use PC to build yourown personal video recorder (PVR). But to do that […]
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Howto grant to RT3 user needed rights
After installation RT it needs to get right permissions for each user or for specified group. This tip explains how to allow to users change password or modify personal information. Login in RT as root. Go to Configuration –> Global and then Group Rights or User Rights. Now choose user name or user group and add permission ‘ModifySelf‘. Don’t forget to save your changes.
Upgrade home PC
Recently we bought a new monitor. It’s 17” LCD monitor Samsung 740N. I made a comparison between HP L1702, Sony SDM-HS75, IBM ThinkVision L171 and Samsung 740N. As result I chose Samsung because it has very good characteristics: 600:1 contrast ratio 300cd/m2 brightness 160/160 degree viewing angle 8 MS response time Also, I bought and installed a new hard drive because I’m going to use […]
GNU Gnash Flash Player
As I know Macromedia refused requests about support 64 bit architectures in the Flash Player. The reaction of open source community was simple: new opena source flash player should be created! The old project GPLFlash was reanimated. Now it joined with Gnash – GNU Flash movie player. Let’s see how Macromedia will concurent with it.
Skype is a small change
Skype adds Intel-only calling features. I’m not regular user of Skype but I think this is not a good idea. Intel loses a competition with AMD. And Skype grows very fast. So, it seems Intel decided to use Skype as a small change to strike a blow to AMD. It reeks!
How to profile mod_perl applications
One of the serious limitation in Perl is an absence of a possibility to make code debugging and profiling in case mod_perl applications. For example PHP has very good development environment – Zend Studioâ„¢ developed by Zend which includes realtime profiler and debugger of web applications: It’s useful to find some bottle necks in the web applications. Perl dasn’t have such tool. Hovewer, there at […]