Monthly Archives: March 2013

We took Crystal up to my parents for the Easter weekend, primarily to give her a…

This is MY Chaiir We took Crystal up to my parents for the Easter weekend, primarily to give her a break from the hassling she gets from Chester. As you can see she settled in very quickly and decided that … Continue reading

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I’ve been very happy with Ubuntu for quite some time – moving through its various…

I've been very happy with Ubuntu for quite some time – moving through its various versions before settling on Xubuntu for my laptop because I loath Unity and Gnome was getting as bad, and Kubuntu seemed to have apps crashing … Continue reading

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No wonder there was a large lump in the bedding

Comfy Cat No wonder there was a large lump in the bedding View this post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog for WordPress.

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Forked-Daapd not quite as stable as it should be

Two of the Android Apps (DAAP and SharePlay) are quite able to crash it. Luckily I can just ssh onto the server and restart it and with the db_rebuild level set to 2 it only takes a few minutes (as … Continue reading

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Forked-Daapd Success!  Well its now working I think – 4 levels of DB rebuild from…

Forked-Daapd Success!  Well its now working I think – 4 levels of DB rebuild from completely rebuild every time to do absolutely nothing every time (handy for totally static collections). Right now I'm doing a complete DB rebuild as I've messed … Continue reading

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Well I thought it had paid off

it hasn't. I  can have the DB do a complete rebuild at start or just do a rescan but the other options for the moment don't work. This is because its dispatching processes and so my flag variables are getting … Continue reading

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Well the crash course in Git and some head scratching as I tried to remember what…

Well the crash course in Git and some head scratching as I tried to remember what little C skills I have has paid off. I've now got a modified and working Forked-Daapd server running and its all stored in GitGub. … Continue reading

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Went mad and decided to try to fix some of the problems in the now unsupported forked-daapd…

Went mad and decided to try to fix some of the problems in the now unsupported forked-daapd application in Ubuntu 12.0.4 C is not my forte and trying to work out what is going on in code using GCD concepts … Continue reading

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