I had no network connection during the installation of XBMC Live, and this is why it was disabled at runtime. It was not very difficult to fix: Edited /etc/network/interfaces and added the ethernet interface -- I do not need the wifi (wlan0) and didn't add it. # Loopback interface auto lo iface lo […]
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XBMC Live, HDMI Output
XBMC Live is based on Ubuntu and can be installed permanently just the same. In the future, OpenELEC might surpass the official XBMC build, but it is not there yet. It worked just fine; however I ran through a weird issue with HDMI sound output that I wanted to document here. By default, even if […]
Cleaning duplicate files
I went trough the cumbersome exercise of cleaning up my Pictures library, which consists of more than 20 000 images. Needless to say it's completely impossible without a good tool. I usually use fslint under Ubuntu, but there are not so many options. Under Linux, one can do quite powerful tools in a […]