Deciding to resurrect my Mythbox I can a quick sudo mythfilldatabase and then checked mythweb to see what was in the listings. Not surprisingly I was greeted with a rather plain error page indicating a server error occurred while trying to process my request. Oh well, at least something was ...
I've installed Ubuntu so many times now and seen the process improve so much over the past few years that I thought replacing Windows 7 with Ubuntu 12.10 would be a piece of cake. Sadly I was wrong.
The issues I encountered were related to the discrete NVIDIA ...
The bios flasher utility for my Acer Aspire laptop requires a windows or dos installation to run.
Having just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 I wasn't keen to go back so I did some searching and found that the FreeDos USB disk can be used to run the flash ...
With my SSD still working despite the taped up data port it's time to do some tweaks to squeeze out the most performance I can.
First up we modify the mount points to disable access time writes and enable TRIM
Edit /etc/fstab and add noatime,discard ...