Discovered the Songbird music player supporting DAAP protocol to connect to our media server (Firefly) on the QNAP NAS. I just installed it, but it seems to exactly provide what is needed, it plays music!
Our home PC, an AMD64 with 8Gb, now has Windows 7 Home Edition installed to become our Media Center. At first the installation from DVD did not seem to start properly, but did after the Virtualisation option is disabled in the BIOS. After the problems to start the installer the installation is very smooth. Read more…
QNAP provides a NAS with Marvel Kirkwood processor supported by Debian ARM distribution (kernel 2.6.30). The NAS comes without a HDD, and is perfectly designed for a single SATA disk. I added a Western Digital 1TB SATA disk.
The first impression is fantastic, with a very ordered internal design of this system.
is great software for a GPS navigation solution using a regular PC and PDA. I use a HP iPAQ 214 with a 4 inch touch-screen on our sailing boat. OziExplorer comes in a Windows version for on the PC and a Windows Mobile version (OziExplorerCE). A new version of OziExplorerCE is available with a 3D View and Course-up (version 2.31).
The end of July is a good period to pick Blue berries (blåbär) in Sweden. We found a spot close to our summer house. In about one hour we picked two liters of Blue berries. Read more for the location.
In Sweden 3Connect offers a 3G broadband connection with pre-paid subscription. A stylish Huawei HSDPA Modem is provided inclyding USB connector. Unfortunately the original software did not work on my laptop with XP and SP3. I installed the update version 2.0 of 3Connect on the modem and reinstalled the PC software. The update can be downloaded from the 3 site. The 3G connection is working fine now (when there is coverage)!
After finding the car of choice it must be bought and imported. Hereby a description of how I imported our new car from Germany into Holland.
Tips for buying in Germany can be found on www.mobile.de. The required documents, checkpoints and some do’s and dont’s, which helped me in the process of getting our new BMW.
The Windows 7 RC1 can be downloaded from the Microsoft site for evaluation purposes. You need to registered for the download and the product key. The installation iso is 3Gb. I installed Windows 7 with 4Gb of memory on a 10Gb disk as virtual machine in Virtualbox with Debian AMD64 as host system.
After the installation the harddisk space was low, next time I would recommend using 20Gb minimum. There was a problem with the sound installation, which is solved with downloading the Realtek AC’97 driver for Windows 7 64-bit (installed using the device driver installation).
The website Mobile contains a large number of occasions in Europe and is good place to search for German BMW occasions. The search capabilities facilitate to exactly find the car you’re looking for. And e-mail notifications will keep you posted on daily updates.
Additional tips and information are available on what is needed to buy a car in Germany. I found a car to export to Holland.
For hosting virutal machines on the Debian Lenny installation I installed Virtualbox from Sun. I followed the installation procedure via including the Virtualbox source in the apt-get source file (virtualbox-2.2). This does require the apt-key installation. Next step will the installation of a Windows XP virtual machine and the RC1 of Windows 7.
As part of the setup the VirtualBox driver kernel module (/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup) must be compiled with the proper kernel version headers (amd64 & common). On my installation the wrong sources had been downloaded by the initial installation.
Additional the memory is increased to 8Gb to support Windows VM’s.