This release has one feature that I have been longing for, an internal UPnP server. I have been using uShare, the MythRename.pl script, and a a few cron jobs to pipe the PVR content to my D-Link DSM-320.
Hans Verkuil, the developer behind ivtv, thinks that he may have found the source of the DMA problems that some have been experiencing. From the mailing list:
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The GPLv3 license is in the works. One of the provisions is to restrict software from using DRM. This, argues Linus Torvalds, is not the job of a license. He is against these new provisions. The article below goes on to defend the license.
I have been deeply against DRM for some time. Linus Torvald’s objection to the license really makes me think. He is the one who got the linux operating system going. I respect his point of view, and am not sure on which side of the fence I stand about the license itself. I am still against DRM.
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Many graphics drivers in linux are currently reverse-engineered. A lot of them only support 2d. Intel has open-sourced their graphics drivers for the 965 Express chipset family. Bravo, Intel. This will allow for computers with those graphics cards to take full advantage of the hardware.
Slashdot | Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers:
“Intel’s Keith Packard announced earlier today that Intel was open sourcing graphics drivers for their new 965 Express Chipset family graphics controllers.
The idea of using FastCGI first struck me on Monday. I had previously transitioned my server to use SuEXEC for PHP. Pages were loading slower than I would have liked. PHP was running as a CGI application. Each time there was a request for a page the server woud have to open a new instance of PHP. This on a VPS server is not always fast.
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Tomorrow I will write about how I was finally able to get suexec, php-5.1.4, and fastcgi working on a cpanel server. It took a lot of trial and error. The solution is not as perfect as I’d like it to be, but it does work.
I have written the post. suexec, php-5.1.4, fastcgi and cpanel
One of my clients recently complained that one of the servers was a bit slow at times. Upon checking the logs I found a string of attacks against that server. People from Russia, China, Bolivia, the US and many other countries were running scripts to attempt to hack into the server.
I investigated many potential solutions. Then I came up with a plan. This method seems to be making it much more inconvenient to try to guess at the passwords. This is what I did. (more…)
The article here: http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/05/how-to-safely-connect-from-anywhere-to-your-closed-linux-firewall/
Describes port knocking and how it may be used to increase network security while still allowing one to keep ports closed at the router.
Update: The author of IVTV has just released a patch that may resolve these problems once and for all
I think that I may have found a solution to this problem. The problem is detailed in this post. I made 3 recent changes to my system, and I am not sure which has led to everything working. (I made some other changes that I will not detail here at the moment; however, they did not resolve the problem. These are the only large changes that I have made in the past week.) The system has only been up for 7 hours 30 minutes with these changes; however, it has been rock solid. (more…)
Update: I have posted what may be a potential fix for this problem. Please see this post.
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I have posted some information here:
http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/ticket/48
I am putting this up because I’d like to allow anyone from the IVTV bug posting to contact me.
The problem is that after a period of time my capture cards stop capturing. When I check the output of dmesg I am greeted with many ivtv0 warning: ENC: (0) DMA Error 0×0000000b messages. (more…)