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working 32wlt68 tv control solution

Here we go! First of all, my lirc configuration for the toshiba TV power button, manually adjusted to the proper NEC timings: begin remote name Toshiba bits 16 flags SPACE\ENC eps 25 aeps 100 header 9…

The TV saga continues!

I've been experimenting with the IR blasting TV control option. With IR blasting you don't (normally) get any status back from the TV, so you need what is called a "discrete code" - an IR signal that…

HDCP and the Toshiba 32wlt68 LCD TV

In which I investigate tv control and accidentally stumble over the HDCP protocol. I've been investigating controlling my tv from my media box recently. There are three four main possibilites: 1. IR b…

Ofcom consultation about BBC DRM

Interesting, see this link on the reg Ofcom are asking people if the BBC should be allowed to apply their proposed programme listing DRM. Whether responding will do any good, I don't know, but it can'…

Today's good deed

Wheee, at about 12am last night I decided that I really just had to port tigervnc to the latest 1.7.x xserver. It hadn't been done previously because there were some fairly massive cleanups in the key…

Lake District

On the way to Wrynose Pass Originally uploaded by adq\uk Photos from our trip to the Lake District . I can see why people fall in love with the place: the colours, man, the colours!

Android auto-phone backup part 3

This evening I finished off my rsync script. It now uses the "--link-dir" feature to support proper incremental backups using hard links. The system works pretty well; wander into the flat, wifi auto-…

Android auto-phone backup part 2

So, at the end of my previous post, I had rsync compiled and runnable on the phones via ssh. Some playing about and chatting later, my friend Colin suggested adding the backup into one of the dhcpcd h…