http://www.welham.net technical things Sat, 24 May 2008 19:49:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To get a V+ set-top box remote doing volume and mute on a Hitachi 42PD9R10 (42" plasma) follow the V+ instructions and use the remote code 0173 http://www.welham.net/archives/75 Someone recently gave me a Mac Mini (1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 with OS X 10.4.11 Tiger) and this is just as well because I'm in the process of reinstalling my main PC. I've hooked it up on the 2nd input to my main PC monitor and have an old Logitech ... http://www.welham.net/archives/73 Want to sort a list of IP addresses by octet number? Try this: # sort -t. -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -k 4,4n http://www.welham.net/archives/72 The following line of config, when added to Muttrc, will ensure that all Maildir directories in ~/Maildir are available to browse via the Mutt userinterface (using "c" or TAB): mailboxes `echo -n "+ "; ls -ad ~/Maildir/.* | sed -e "s/^.*Maildir\/\([^\/]*\).*$/+\1/" -e "s/ /\\\\\\\ /g" | xargs` http://www.welham.net/archives/71 Yes, the title says it all. This is dull... but if I don't write it down I'll scream when I need to do it again in 5 years time. So, till now I have been running an IMAP server on OpenBSD using dovecot. I was using fetchmail to pull in some ... http://www.welham.net/archives/70 I've been diagnosing TCP performance issues lately and playing with the very clever NPAD tool (using the ever-so convenient NPToolkit LiveCD). These are respective projects from the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC) and Internet2 End-to-end performance initiative. Anyway I had issues compiling the diag-client.c on Solaris 10 x86: cc diag-client.c -o diag-client Undefined ... http://www.welham.net/archives/69 Last week I installed a modchip in a friends Xbox. I had bought him an Xecuter 3CE chip as a Christmas present because I was so impressed with the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software which I installed on my Xbox. Now the Xecuter 3CE is a fantastic modchip and was ... http://www.welham.net/archives/67 Whilst working through labs for the BSCI CCNP exam (using the fantastic Dynagen / Dynamips) I came across the need for a multicast traffic generator. Googling showed me there was "MINT" but further investigation showed it didn't do Windows, a little more faffing about with hping, nemesis and bittwist got ... http://www.welham.net/archives/66 I never intended to blog about much except a few notes that would be a useful reference for anyone googling a techie problem that I had managed to solve. Certainly this was a noble cause but I soon lost interest and months have passed without a blog entry. Recently however I ... http://www.welham.net/archives/65 This is quite funny in a rather depressing way: C:>ping www.google.com -t Pinging www.l.google.com [64.233.183.104] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Reply from 64.233.183.104: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=244 Reply from 64.233.183.104: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=244 Request timed out. Request ... http://www.welham.net/archives/64