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Encrypted USB Drives for Linux and Windows
I played with 2 options: TrueCrypt and FreeOTFE TrueCrypt has a Windows and Linux GUI making it pretty easy to use cross platform. It also do some pretty cool encryption of the boot drive to secure the whole computer, but I haven’t messed with that yet. FreeOTFE has cool because it has a WIndows GUI and can automount under linux if you encrypt a whole partition as opposed to a volume (file) stored on a partition. I really wanted to go with FreeOTFE for the automounting, but ran into a deal breaker issue. Windows can only mount a single partition from a USB drive, so I couldn’t have a small partition to run FreeOTFE from (so it was portable to any Windows computer) and have a 2nd large encrypted partition for the data. Configuring FreeOTFE and Linux see http://emcken.dk/weblog/archives/164-encrypted-usb-drive-in-ubuntu.html. My notes just in case the above link ever goes away: sudo apt-get install cryptsetup sudo modprobe dm-crypt ## If you haven’t rebooted sudo cryptsetup –verbose –verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sdb5 sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb5 sdb5 # Based on fat32 or ntfs sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/mapper/sdb5 -n “tpearsall” sudo mkntfs -f /dev/mapper/sdb5 sudo cryptsetup luksClose sdb5
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Building SDLMame
You need to spoof the user-agent to get the source with wget Code: wget –user-agent='Mozilla/4.0' http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/sdlmame0118.zip
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Ubuntu LIRC Setup
Good Instructions https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallLirc/Gutsy Command I keep forgetting: sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc
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All In One URC 6131n
Most of this is pulled from http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ Install Modules Code: yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER yum install lirc Check if eveything is there: Code: $ rpm -qa | grep lirc lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc4.at lirc-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4-0.7.2-48.rhfc4.at lirc-0.7.2-48.rhfc4.at lirc-lib-0.7.2-48.rhfc4.at modprobe.conf Code: ## TSP For Serial Port 1 alias … Continue reading
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HD Channels
Tuning HD Channels Scan for Channels atscscan us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 store results to chan.conf Tune Channels azap -r -c chan.conf {channel number} cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | mplayer -vo xv -ao alsa – OR cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | mplayer -vo xv -ao alsa -vid … Continue reading
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Programming the All In One URC 6131n
These are the steps that I followed to get my remote to work. 1. Copy the lircd.conf file to /etc/lircd.conf. 2. Load in the lirc modules and start lircd. 3. Decide which button to assign on the remote for MythTV. … Continue reading
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Ubuntu Sound Muted by Default
amixer set Master 100% unmute amixer set PCM 100% unmute
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Show Import Utility: mythnettv
http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/ Samples sudo ionice -c3 mythnettv –nocommflag importlocal The.Office.S05E19.avi The.Office The.Office.S05E19 The.Office.Season.2 sudo ionice -c3 mythnettv –nocommflag importmanylocal ./ ".*.avi" "Fifth.Gear" sudo ionice -c3 tsp/mythnettv/mythnettv –nocommflag importlocal "Curb Your Enthusiasm – 3×02 – The Benadryl … Continue reading
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