Archive for November, 2008

NetBSD TV: The Streaming Video Client

Monday, 10th of November 2008

For quite some time I’ve been looking for a streaming video client that would allow me to watch the video files that are stored on my NetBSD server on the TV in the sitting room. I thought that my requirements for such a client were pretty basic: Decent analog video (preferably via a SCART connector) [...]

Queen + Paul Rodgers at the O2

Sunday, 9th of November 2008

Last Friday Silke, me and over 10.000 other people had a really good time in The O2 arena in London. That was of course due to our hosts, Queen + Paul Rodgers. The concert was brilliant, just as I expected. Brian May‘s mastery of the guitar is just breathtaking. Roger Taylor is looking a bit [...]

The Exorcism of my Mac

Sunday, 2nd of November 2008

After I updated my Power Mac G5 to Mac OS X Leopard the system seemed to work fine at first. But over time I experienced an increasing number of kernel panics. They all looked like the kernel panic described in this thread on one of Apple’s mailing lists. Reading this e-mail exchange two causes of [...]