To save my SSD’s on none laptop pcs, i use a cheap USB stick for my swap.
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SSD – how to use a USB Stick as SWAP
our new home
This has been a long road…. We got the call today, our offer was the higest and accepted so we now have a new home 
Its a but far from home but its in the Alps so who cares?
xbmc & mysql = multi-room sync
The primary reason I decided to use mysql is because I am always reinstalling my htpc for testing purposes. I am sick an tired of loosing all my watched flags, re-scraping with 20 threads still takes around 6 hours. I therefore use mysql and also store the thumbnails on a nfs share but now my laptop, tv and desktop xbmc look alike and one change is replicated throughout. I had a couple of issues hence documenting how its done.
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Run Ember Media Manager on Ubuntu
Ember Media Manager (aka EMM or Ember) is an open source movie and TV Show collections management tool which initially has been created to use with XBMC, but it contains Modules for a few media center application, moreover it should virtually support most of the other media center application out there. It empowers home theater enthusiasts to manage and organize their entire movie and TV Show collections. EMM will scrape movie and TV Show information (plot, cast, genre, studio, mpaa certification, etc) from various sites, together with posters, fanart, actor photos and even movie trailers. It also automatically extracts media meta data like resolution, codecs, audio and subtitle streams. EMM can also be used as a standalone movie organizer/cataloger, but the primary aim is to export all the data and images to a format which can then be imported into your favorite media center application. In order to achieve this, EMM stores all data and images in files which are saved next to the media files. Media center applications can pick up those files and import the information to their own internal database
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From iPhone to Android – Samsung Galaxy S i9000
Ok, so I did it. I went from my truly lovely iPhone (3Gs) to a Android phone. My choice is the Samsung Galaxy S i9000. So, how is the experience so far?
Android emulator on Ubuntu
I have been considering ditching the iphone for a while now, to get the SDK EMU working was a must to see if I can get all the stuff I use on my iphone working in android (exchange support, train timetables etc.)This is the step-by-step instructions for how to install the Android emulator on Ubuntu 10.04. Read more »
t60p ubuntu tweaks
A couple of things I do to get my clean installs back to the way I like them.
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Judder free perfectly synced playback on xbmc
Since there’s a lot of misinformation in the forum about how xorg display modes works, This is the right way.
First of all, modelines are not a the magic solution to all your problems. Modelines are only needed with tv’s that have faulty EDID information. Most TVs provide the correct modes for 29.97/59.94 Hz, but the modes are not used by xrandr by default, so XBMC can’t see that they are available.
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Automatic USB backup
Everyone has important files like personal photographs, bank statements, a life’s accumulation of porn and so and and so forth that would be hard or impossible to recover if that damn hard drive would fail.