Darren Watt

I keep forgetting how to do this as I don’t use SVN often enough, and then when I do need to do it the SVN docs are fairly sketchy on it. Make a text file with the following type of content as ‘svnignore.txt’ folder1 cache uploads .project *.txt Then run this to update the SVN [...]

It’s got a silly name, I don’t know what an Ocelot is, or what Oneiric means but perhaps I’m just undereducated. With the new release of Ubuntu 11.10 I managed to give it a full week of release before going ahead and updating anything, which is good going for me. I went ahead and updated [...]

A few things I noted during the first few weeks of running XBMC Live installed on the HP Microserver: 100% CPU Usage Lots of old posts on various forums about this that can lead you down all sorts of dead ends. For me, I was running Nvidia Drivers 195 which came with the XBMC Live [...]

For some time now I’ve been wondering whether to chop my existing media centre PC in for something a bit more lounge friendly. It was a bit noisey, even with a low noise PSU and to be honest a Novatech Desktop box sitting in the corner of the room isn’t the most attractive room decoration. [...]

Again, there is a lot of information about this elsewhere but I drop this here as a guide for myself. This is written for Ubuntu, tweak according to linux distro. Install cssh with: $ aptitude install cssh Generate default configuration: $ cssh -u > $HOME/.csshrc Edit config file ~/.csshrc – editing clusters and set cluster [...]