From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Oracle version information

July 31, 2008

When making support requests it is always helpful to include version information about the product in question. Rather than just stating ‘version X’ I like to get the software to display the version information and just copy and paste it - this way there can be no confusion, and there may even be extra useful [...]

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Media center with MythTV

July 23, 2008

Last November I upgraded my desktop PC. Recently I’ve repurposed it as a media center running MythTV (and also for print serving/file serving etc).
The hardware is as follows:

Sonata III 500 W case
Gigabyte GA965P-S3 motherboard
Core2 Duo E6550 CPU
Gigabyte 8400GS Nvidia video card
WinFast DTV1000 digital tuner card
320MB SATA disk
Kingston 1Gig DDR2 800MHz memory

Since then, I’ve added a [...]

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