jaunty Archive

  • Howto: Live migrate to software RAID 1

    Howto: Live migrate to software RAID 1

    Feel insecure about your data? Don’t trust your harddrive anymore? Use this howto to migrate your running Ubuntu Linux system to software RAID 1. Before starting off, I assume you have your running system on /dev/sda and your new harddrive is called /dev/sdb. Boot up your system and install the mdadm package. We now have to create partitions [...]

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  • Pinnacle DVB-T stick remote

    Pinnacle DVB-T stick remote

    Another post about that Pinnacle DVB-T stick? No, this one is about the remote! I wrote that the remote wasn’t completely working yet. Apparently, there is a driver for this remote or the stick that converts the buttons from the remote to “keyboard events”. Meaning I can type the number 0-9 with my remote for [...]

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  • Pinnacle DVB-T stick on Ubuntu Jaunty

    Pinnacle DVB-T stick on Ubuntu Jaunty

    Yesterday I decided to buy the Pinnacle DVB-T Stick (also known as Pinnacle TV Stick 72e) to watch some free-to-air channels. In the shop I searched on Google for Linux support, to make sure I didn’t have to return the product. The first few hits seemed positive (2 years ago), so I decided to take [...]

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  • Testing Ubuntu Jaunty with UXA

    Testing Ubuntu Jaunty with UXA

    I’ve been testing Ubuntu Jaunty for a few weeks now and after using it for a day or two, my memory filled up. Recently I found out that this was caused by Compiz. Apparently if you use UXA with the new Intel drivers, Compiz will start to leak memory. After only 8 hours of usage, [...]

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