Technical Jottings

A recent reconfiguration of our living room caused a problem. The HDMI cable from the DVD player was not long enough to reach the television...

Amazing what just over a ton will get you these days - 4 TB of disk. I know it makes me sound old but I remember having a 10 MB disk and bei...

My music files are stored on a server; sometimes I want to copy a selection onto sn SD card for playing in the car. The steps are: Make a...

Firstly, let's be clear. There *is* no way of editing symlinks. All you can do is delete them and recreate them. However, there is a way...

There's a nasty little bug in Debian Squeeze which means that if you update the kernel, IPv6 stops working.  The reason this is so anno...

Although checking a ext2/3 disk from the command line is easy, there is surprisingly little concise info out there.  Here's what I did w...

I use squeezeslave to listen to music from my Logitech Media Server (LMS; previously known as Squeezebox Server).  The LMS has a pretty goo...