So I run MythTV, and when I rebuild/transferred all my recordings to my new server I gave it an extra 0.3TB space, giving it a total of 1.3TB. Well a few months on I’m regretting my decision. So looking into deleting recordings, and then freeing the space seemed like a massive job, so instead I’ve …
Category: Technical
Aug 19
Allow Cisco iOS Outbound PPTP Through NVI NAT
Howdy all, it’s been a while but I found this and figured it was well worth sharing. I can’t say I found the answer to this issue online, and once I got it it seemed easy which might be why. To explain the title further, this is a home or small branch office internet connection …
Dec 28
Adaptec RAID controller on VMware ESXi 5.x without a custom build
I’ve built an VMWare ESXi Hypervisor server and my research showed the Adaptec 6805 RAID card as compatible but once I have finished building the system I got to the storage configuration my hard drives failed to appear. Not happy. So my initial Googleing showed that I needed to create a custom installation media, figuring that …
Mar 25
Channel 7 Perth Reception Problem
Absolutely no way! My MythTV server has been running for 5 years perfectly. I gave it a de-dust and rewired a couple of drives on the weekend, and then channel 7 was gone. Figuring it had to be something I’ve done, I shutdown, reseated the tuners, confirmed wiring connections, removed tv surge protector and still …