Working semi-regularly for Microsoft, I’m now even more aware of when people criticise the company. Sometimes it is justified, sometimes it’s not. Here’s a very funny critique of what Slashdot readers make of the Xbox360 and it’s backwards compatibility. Funny. Rude, but funny.
XBox360 Backwards Compatibility
By Howard | Published December 14th, 2005Scripting
By Howard | Published December 7th, 2005I needed to rename over 3000 files across several thousand directories the other day, and sure as hell wasn’t going to do it by hand. This was to change the name of the file used to show the cover art for my albums from “cover.jpg” to “folder.jpg”. For my benefit, should I need to do…
Tivo Now Playing RSS Feed
By Howard | Published November 16th, 2005Yes, I am a geek. Here’s the now playing list from my Tivo presented in all it’s RSS glory inside Safari on the Mac: Download the code and installation instructions. I had to learn TCL to make this work. That’s a whole new language for me. Neat.
tivostatus for WordPress
By Howard | Published November 1st, 2005Some time ago I wrote a script to query my tivo for status and display it on this page. It was presented as an iframe on this site which called an ASP page hosted on my home network on an IIS box. It was an inelegant solution and I always intended to rewrite it in…
Streaming TiVo to the VideoLan Client
By Howard | Published September 20th, 2005Goal: Stream the contents of Tivo’s “Now Playing” to any machine on the network (wireless too!).
Tools needed: A network enabled Tivo (telnet, FTP, Tivoweb), the Tivo vstream binaries. A copy of VLC for your OS of choice, the tystream plugins for your version of VLC.
Bonus Settings: Configure “1-click” playback from your browser (IE on Windows).
SpeedswitchXP
By Howard | Published September 14th, 2005I’ve blogged about this guys stuff before (when I had an Inspiron that overheated) but now he’s saving me grief on a different Dell. SpeedswitchXP allows you to force the speed of your processor to high-speed if speed-step, or Windows itself insists on running it at half speed. Very useful if your 1.8GHz machine keeps…
Virtualise this!
By Howard | Published September 13th, 2005Now this is frickin’ genius. I’ve been using VMWare for a while for building test environments – little ring-fenced domains for testing AD and GP and the like, but I’ve just discovered the VMware P2V Assistant. This clever boot-cd will take a physical machine – perhaps running legacy software – and turn it into a…
TiVo Status!
By Howard | Published January 22nd, 2005I had a spare half hour, so I knocked together a script that will parse my TiVo’s Tivoweb info page and consolidate the recording information into a little status display, like so: The information is cached and will be updated once every fifteen minutes so as to not overload the TiVo itself. It’ll appear in…
TiVo Video Extraction and the 4:3 problem
By Howard | Published January 8th, 2005As some of you will know, I regularly “rip” TV shows that have been recorded by my TiVo so I can archive them to DVD. This has been a pretty hit and miss affair over the years, until fairly recently when I stumbled across a way to 100% reliably get the data off the TiVo….
Speed Up IE’s HTTP requests
By Howard | Published January 3rd, 2005This is one of those handy tips that I first found out about around IE 4.something, and keep forgetting to write down anywhere – so every time I want to do it again on a new machine I need to Google for it! So here it is in permanent blog form. To comply with current…
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