I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 and installed the Win2-7 theme. This comes with a Windows 7 style grouping of applications on the taskbar. This annoyed me and I tried to ungroup it. Unfortunately, this was not possible.
After a bit of googling, I found this old post. It no longer applies to the current code, so I worked around it using that post. Here is what I did:
I needed a quick multicast streamer, so I tried to install vlc from the ports. Here is the mess that my monitor got filled with:
For a demo I was looking into the possibility of using a Vista MCE Remote controller to navigate a web portal. I found out that the arrow keys are the same as a keyboard arrow key and the “ok” button equals the “enter” key. So, now I needed to find a way to use the arrow keys to navigate.
Using Windows Media Player as the mediaplayer of your choice is tricky at best, if you are trying to access a multicast stream. I have done some research and found that it is very difficult to receive a multicast stream which was not generated by a Windows Media server. So I had to revert to VLC mediaplayer.
I recently installed FreeBSD 8.2 on a compact-flash disk for my home-build CPE project. Previously, I would use a laptop, a CF-adapter and boot a FreeBSD installation CD. For my latest project, I thought of a new way. Using Qemu, it is very easy to install and configure the OS prior to mounting the CF into the device.
Recently, I was faced with a challenge. I needed a CPE which was able to receive multicast over PPPoE session and send it to a client behind NAT. To the best of my knowledge, no commercially available CPE can perform this task. Yes, I know that dd-wrt should be able to do the trick but I did not have an old Linksys laying around. So I decided to build my own CPE based on a Soekris net5501.
In fact,