James Whitt's Blog

Sound on Dell XPS L702X in Linux

James — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:10:25 +0000

After getting the sound working on the laptop, I was still running into issues with distorted sound and the sub woofer not working. The sound chipset that is in it is Intel, as can be seen by: 00:1b.0 Audio device: …

Accessing your eBook collection managed by Calibre without Calibre Server

James — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:53:49 +0000

This post is about how I’ve been going about enabling access to my eBook purchases that are managed with Calibre without actually using the built in Calibre Server. All of this is running on Linux, with my eBooks and Calibre …

Subversion diff from url to local directory working copy

James — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:11:20 +0000

For some reason there is some bad information out there on comparing a local working copy in a branch to that of a subversion url. In this case, I really wanted to know how far off this branch code that …

My IOIO for Android is here

James — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:30:19 +0000

The IOIO for Android that I recently purchased has shown up!!! I haven’t had time to play with it or even know much about how to start playing with it, but I will be figuring it out quickly. If you’re …

DVR Software So Far

James — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:20:09 +0000

I am no where done tweaking with the software and trying to get everything working perfectly. This is just a post to document what I have done so far. Until I have a better internet connection, I will not be …

Streaming Windows Media Center DVR Shows to the iPad

James — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:30:08 +0000

I had started this article out about how I use all these different applications, such as using MCEBuddy to convert videos to a non-drm stream on a nightly basis, save to a separate location, and then using Air Video Server …

Ubuntu 10.10 Grub Update for OS X

James — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:30:21 +0000

This article builds upon Triple Booting Windows 7, OS X (Chameleon), and Ubuntu 9.10 (Grub2). I recently updated my desktop to Ubuntu 10.10 and noticed that the grub commands have changed ever so slightly. With the new installation, I just …

OTA DVR Equipment Build

James — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:07:59 +0000

I’ve decided to drop cable / satellite, and create a DVR that will record programming from over the air. This first entry is just going to outline the what I wanted out of the DVR and what equipment I purchased …

Triple Booting Windows 7, OS X (Chameleon), and Ubuntu 9.10 (Grub2)

James — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:52:18 +0000

So wouldn’t you know it, my video card died and I decided to get around to installing Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 at the same time. Of course, installing Windows 7 took over the booter, then installing Ubuntu 9.10 took …

OS X and Truemobile 1940 Issues Fixed

James — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:00:16 +0000

I currently picked up a $21 Dell Truemobile 1490 wireless card to put in my MSI Wind instead of the Realtek that’s in it. It install just fine, I got it working in Windows and Linux with no issues, but …