Mar 27, 2011 Posted by andrewb

CLI burn dvd

CLI burning of a DVD. Having just purchased a MacBook Air, I no longer have a dvd burner to burn stuff onto disks (which is really needed given my new limitation of 256Gb). I do have a media centre running Ubuntu and I thought that it was about time to brush off my old CLI skills to write stuff to disks. This information came... read more

Mar 27, 2011 Posted by andrewb

Installing Ubuntu 10.10 on Mac Air

This is a quick article to document the process of installing ubuntu on a MacBook Air. The reason that I'm writing this is because I've had to pull information from multiple locations in order to get this installed. First, the specifications …. MacBook Air purchased on the 26th of December 2010. 2.13Ghz, 256Gb SSD (Apple's equivalent, guessing at about the equivalent of 11k SATA), 4Gb RAM USB CDROM (You... read more

Mar 27, 2011 Posted by andrewb

convert to iPAD format using ffmpeg

This is a quick post that documents how to use some basic script fu to recursively go through each directory and convert all files of a certain type into a format that iPad can use. I found the original settings somewhere on the web and if I can come across it I will attribute correctly. I hope that this helps anyone else but please note that your mileage may... read more

Jun 3, 2009 Posted by andrewb

loaded vmware fail

For once this isn't a technical post - it has to be close to the only one in this blog! I just like to be proved right every now and then ... I'll set up the situation for you - I was running ESXi3.0 on a dual CPU server with 4Gb of RAM and all of the other kit that you normally associate with server grade equipment. I wanted to run SQL server 2000 and a linux LTSP on the machine. I created a Linux... read more

May 30, 2009 Posted by andrewb

modifying multimedia keys

This is a quick post because it's taken me the better part of 3 days to work out how to remap multimedia keys under linux. The problem that I encountered (and very quickly) was that keys such as the mute or volume up/down keys would trigger the correct event in gnome (volume would mute or raise and lower) but all of the descriptions of how to remap keys using xev didn't seem to remap the keys. Following... read more