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Month: February 2010

Building a HTPC with Mythbuntu 9.10

2010-02-21 / Jay2k1 / Leave a comment

So I decided it’s time to build a HTPC so I can record TV and also use time shifting when watching live TV. I’ve tried several products, be it software packages or whole linux distributions, including Windows Media Center, Apple Front Row, vdr, c’t-vdr, yavdr, freevo and mythTV. That last one I liked most by…

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Why Macs may have trouble with fonts from SMB shares

2010-02-03 / Jay2k1 / 7 Comments

The problem Did you ever want to install a font on your Mac that’s on a SMB share, for example on a Windows/Unix server? Did you experience the font was broken somehow, being displayed in the finder as “unix executable file” with 0kb size? We had this issue here often, finally I figured out why…

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