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- August 29, 2010 – 12:47 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Boxee, you have a lot going for you and I’m pulling for you to win the race for the living room (with new arrivals from Google and an Apple iTV on the horizon). I use you as a centerpiece of my home media setup after ditching my cable plan. My family and myself have fully embraced the whole “TV over internet” model. But we need to have a talk. The most positive thing that you have going for you is that are an open platform. Developers can write plugins for you, with the only restrictions being the developer’s own ability and dreams. This is a good thing, as it allows infinite development of your platform – and I believe this is where boxee should be focusing its time on: enticing talented developers and content producers to write apps for your interface. With the latest release of Boxee you’ve added an….
Categories: Site Updates
Tagged: apple, boxee, content, Google, Television
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- August 16, 2010 – 8:34 am
- Author:
- By Dave
A forum that I am an adminstrator for has been clamoring for an iPhone theme (style) for a long time now. In the past, I hadn’t seen any usable iPhone template for phpBB3, until now.
View this entire post to view my modifications to a theme switcher for mobile devices, so that the end user can disable a mobile theme for their login if they should choose to do so.
Categories: Code Samples,PHP,Software
Tagged: iphone, PHP, phpbb, theme
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- June 18, 2010 – 6:05 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
We received a tip from blog readers Christian and Michael for alternatives to the command to delete all directories older than a certain period of time. These both work in bash and can be used in scripts to clean up old backup directories or any situation where you need to delete old directories from the command line. From Christian: find /home/backup/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -exec rm -r {} \; From Michael: find /home/backup/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -exec echo “Removing Directory => {}” \; -exec rm -rf “{}” \; The first one works quietly, while the second one will display what is being deleted. These are probably faster than putting it into a for loop, so feel free to use whatever works best in your particular situation!
Categories: Linux,Shell,System Administration
Tagged: bash, oneliner, tips
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- June 7, 2010 – 10:29 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
It had to be back in 2005 or so when I first started talking about device convergence. I said that within a few years (I originally said 3 years, so I wasn’t too far off) that we would have a mobile device convergence of cell phones, mp3 players, and cameras. You could see it coming even if the current technology in 2005 wasn’t up to the quality of each individual device. Now that the iPhone 4 takes 720p video at 30fps we have a worth competitor which crosses the finish line. There is still some room for improvement that Apple and the other phone manufacturers should take note of. The first phone I noticed which actually started this convergence was the Sony Ericsson Walkman phones (W series, W580i, etc). The problem with these phones was the interface, which was horrible. You could listen to a lot of music due to….
Categories: Site Updates
Tagged: iphone, obligatory
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- May 20, 2010 – 1:59 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Just watched the Google IO stream regarding the release of Google TV. My thoughts: Good: The platform is open. This is the way to go, and will allow developers to go hog wild and develop things that even the Google engineers couldn’t envision. TV/Web Integration. The Google TV platform appears to have great web and video integration, including live TV. The overlays look beautiful and web/TV switches effortlessly. But that basically makes it WebTV. Working with hardware partners. This gives the platform a much better chance of seeing the light of day. It appears they are working with Sony, Dish, Logitech and other hardware companies. The Android market. Integration with this means you already have tons of apps at your disposal on your system. Search integration. Will make it easy to find both local and online content. Bad: Needing an existing cablebox to bring in live TV. This is an….
Categories: Other Technology,Television
Tagged: google tv, googletv, htpc, iptv, Television
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- February 23, 2010 – 5:41 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
My professor sent us this little one liner (ok, I had to format it to 2 lines to fit in this blog. You know what I mean) which prints out the current directory tree: ls -R | grep “:$” | sed -e ‘s/:$//’ -e ‘s/[^-][^\/]*\//–/g’ \ -e ‘s/^/ /’ -e ‘s/-/|/’ What’s going on here?
Categories: Code Samples,Shell
Tagged: bash, sed
