Some weeks ago I wrote about capturing video with an old Pinnacle DC10+ card on Ubuntu 10.10. Since then I have had varying success capturing hours of video from both Hi8 and VHS sources. Often lavrec will exit in the middle of a recording with somewhat unknown error messages such as: # dmesg: DC10plus[0]: jpg_sync [...]

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Like probably many people, I have a lot of old analog video recordings on HI-8 and VHS tape I just have forgotten to keep up to date with technology. I guess it’s time to start capturing video. Soon… First, the camcorders charger is broken, and buying a new one is kind of difficult, but luckily, [...]

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If you need more disk capacity for your Windows installation in VirtualBox you can make a new virtual disk in VirtualBox with the capacity you want. The new disk must be larger than the old one. Then use System Rescue CD with the partitioning tool GParted to copy the original disk over to the larger [...]

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If you already got a PHP installation setup, you may need another extension/module from the PHP source tree. You can build and install that single module from the source while keeping the rest of the PHP installation intact, but the documentation of building shared PHP modules is poor. In my case I needed the tidy [...]

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If your application is failing with a ClassNotFoundException of the class com.google.android.maps.MapView, then the uses-library tag might be misplaced or missing from the application manifest XML. When adding Google Maps to your Android application, make sure that the <uses -library>-tag is inside the <application>-tag of the manifest XML. This might be obvious, but I got [...]

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If you have a Hauppauge PVR-500 card and recently upgraded Ubuntu to latest 10.04 Lucid, then you might have had problems viewing live TV. The quick fix might be to just install the package “ivtv-utils” and to reconfigure the video input/sources with mythtv-setup. I also had a problem with disconnects and warnings of wrong protocol [...]

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I am novice on Android application development, slowly starting to understand the architecture. I particularly like that communication between applications and data storage are resource centric. But anyway… If you have been developing mobile applications for Android you have most likely seen some exceptions in the Eclipse debugger that you don’t understand, maybe not the [...]

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Apache Solr is a very powerful index and search engine. Unfortunately it does have some flaws, at least I think this issue is somehow not “by design”. If you are going to use a field to sort on, make sure you use one of the native data types in Solr, and don’t enable any tokenizer [...]

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Cowboy coding seems interesting, and it might be just that I have been doing when developing Madcow, a PHP web framework. However, it is not the same as Scrum. Many projects tend to fail using the Scrum methodology, possibly because of the lack of clearly defined roles, and then fall back to something looking like [...]

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Ok, so I have been debugging a Perl application that I wrote about six months ago. Basically it creates some meta data and copies files to other user accounts using SSH. For file transfer it uses File::RsyncP and for remote control it uses Net::SSH::Perl. Some times I get the error message Could not dupe: Bad [...]

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