One of the simplest ways to download Track, Waypoint and Route information from your Garmin GPS in Ubuntu is using gpsbabel. {adinserter 3} Install gpsbabel via apt-get sudo apt-get install gpsbabel Connect the gps via the cable provided to the serial port of the computer or via a serial to USB converter to the USB […]
Month: September 2009
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XBMC – No Cast Info from IMDB
Image via Wikipedia If you have been using the latest release of XBMC you might have noticed that XBMC does not seem to pick up the cast information of a movie from IMDB. The problem here is that Imdb recently made minor changes to its api and the infomation we are looking for is not […]
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Organizing Media With XBMC
Image via Wikipedia If you didnt know, I happen to have a huge media collection. Everybody has Giga bytes of music and maybe a few episodes of their favorite tv shows. I have that and about 80 unwatched movies on my comp at any given time 😛 For me one of the biggest problem was […]
Image via CrunchBase The HP Tx1000 series laptop has a unique problem with its Nvidia chip. Due to a really poor design wrt to the heat sink to the GPU, the chip reaches very high temperatures during operation causing the system to not boot properly. This problem is apparently very common and occurs within about […]