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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: IR blaster The service port on the TV DDC/CI CEC 1 – will work, but I’d like a finer degree of control2 – I have theContinue reading “HDCP and the Toshiba 32wlt68 LCD TV”

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’t do any harm… Note that as they’re not proposing DRMing the *content*, just the programme guide (by restricting knowledgeContinue reading “Ofcom consultation about BBC DRM”

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 keyboard code from 1.6.x->1.7.x which changed a lot of things. A couple of hours later, and I had a workingContinue reading “Today’s good deed”

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!

Lamplight in the Evening Originally uploaded by adq_uk

Lions Head IR Originally uploaded by adq_uk

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-connects and phone backs itself up automatically. No user intervention required whatsoever. Here’s the finished rsynchero script:

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 hooks. The idea being that whenever the phone connects to my flat wifi and successfully gets an IPContinue reading “Android auto-phone backup part 2”

I’ve been looking for a way to automatically backup my HTC Hero android phone. All the solutions on the market seem a bit lacking – either unable to backup everything, or only backing up to the SD card and so on. My total flat backup system is fully automated and based around rsync and rdiff-backupContinue reading “ARM rsync binary for android”

View across the ForthOriginally uploaded by adq_uk