I just wasted a few hours experimenting with DVB applications for Linux as I thought I’d like an alternative to Kaffeine that I currently use. Guess what? None of them worked despite tuning fine using w_scan, scan or their internal scanners. Totem and gnome-dvb-control use gnome-dvb-daemon as their backend which just coredumps almost instantly, the frontends just spawn a load of python errors whenever you click something. The CLI favourite “vdr” just kind of sits there doing nothing instead of displaying a menu.

My 2Tb Western Digital Caviar Green is dying – 1305 unfixable sectors! Off to RMA land for that, when it comes back its being relogated to “backup in the cupboard” drive. I’ve spent the last 12 hours or so trying to back up the 1.2Tb of data to other drives – luckily I still have an unused 1Tb WDC Caviar Black in the cupboard (the last RMA!) and some free space on my 1.

I just bought a short domain sej.me which by default redirects to my main website, but for certain URL’s it goes elsewhere, for instance: sej.me/plus goes to my Google+ page; sej.me/eid3 goes to page 394 of a forum thread whose link would otherwise be 98 characters long!

I’ve been playing with compiling Cyanogenmod7’s fork of Koush’s ClockWorkMod Recovery 3.0.2.7 The github source is here and of course Gerrit for the latest code under review. First you compile CM7 for your target platform as usual. This is needed to create some supporting libraries and the actual recovery.img file, including the kernel for your phone of course: . build/envsetup.sh && brunch blade``` Then you create the signed flashable zip: ```bash TARGET_PRODUCT=cyanogen_blade make recoveryzip That results in out/target/product/blade/utilities/update.

I spent most of last night (bit sad innit?!) backing up my computers – well it started off as I thought I should clone my Mac Mini (in case I decide to buy OSX Lion) which I’ve never done before. Booted Ubuntu 11.04 from a LiveCD, and dd’ed an 80Gb disk image to the 1Tb NTFS drive over USB. Ubuntu 11.04/Unity is a bit better than Fedora 15/Gnome Shell. Did the same with the laptop, 160Gb image that time, but its XP+Fedora, did the 80Gb desktop the other day and the other 64Gb desktop a while back.