It’s not as easy as I thought, mainly due to the total lack of a working rarp/tftpd setup – NFS can be bodged. A list of what I did is available should anyone else want to try.
Of course, it’s not fully working yet in that the tftp stage was causing me problems last night, but [...]
Whilst I’m in a posting mood, has anyone else played with distributed programming/development from the ’sharp’ end ?
I’ve been looking at packages such as Horde and PHPGroupWare, and they are fascinating – immense amounts of effort have gone into them, and I’ve simply no idea if they work as-is for real work, or if each [...]
Ok, I’ve decided that it’ll be easier to cut over to b2 and worry about missing data from the last site than wait until I’m 100% sure that it’s all transferred
Other stuff like the posting page and any sort of b2 housekeeping areas are yet to be modified into something approaching my design, but then [...]
win2k/sonic mydvd
There will be some details here, just as soon as I can stop screaming at the memory of it all…
win2k/tmpgenc
The answer to the AVI capture limit was simple: move to Windows 2000 and NTFS, and capture until my hard drive ran out of space. This was good, in that it worked fine, plus the move to MPEG files rather than AVI meant that there wasn’t really a limit anyway. The O/S was far, far [...]
beos/hauppauge wintv
Hmm, well that was nice. It’s a wonderful OS, bringing elegance and slickness to the desktop of even ’slow’ machines, if you can find a selection of hardware with the correct drivers. It can do multiple video and audio streams that even today’s O/S have trouble with, and the default versions even came with [...]
Thought it might be nice to have a break from monochrome
Not that I dislike white/grey/black of course (and it is in keeping with the rest of the site), but a random dose of colour in a subtle way makes things more amusing. It also helps to see if you are stuck behind a transparent [...]