Home Theatre PC

My new HTPC is making progress:

Hardware

• Sapphire PI-AM3RS785G motherboard


• AMD Athlon II X2 250 cpu


• 2 GByte RAM


• Samsung 750 GByte HD HD753LJ


• Samsung DVD writer


• Auvisio remote control VRC-1100 (Vista MCE Remote Control)


• Compucase 7K09B-FP25U black case


• Asus VW161D TFT monitor

Software

• Ubuntu 9.10 amd64


• XBMC 9.11

Thanks to Klaus Hertle for support!

Notebook upgrade

The upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 on my Medion Akoya P6620 took 2 hours without any problems.

Presentation at DOAG Conference

Today I gave a presentation about Application Express in teaching "APEX in der Lehre" where I shared my experiences with APEX in various courses.

You can download the presentation here.

Arnoldshain IX

The ninth Arnoldshain Seminar takes place at the moment in Montevideo and Punta del Este in Uruguay - we have near live coverage with pictures due to wireless LAN and my Netbook ;-)

Ju 52

Heli-Air-Show Phalsbourg

Nice, well organized event ;-)

Anspach & Hahnweide

You can find pictures from Taunus-Flugfest and Hahnweide Oldtimer Meeting here:

Hahnweide 2009

Taunus-Flugfest

Multimedia remote control

Just bought a Auvisio remote control VRC-1100 (Vista MCE Remote Control) from Pearl for my Xubuntu-based HTPC, it works out of the box as remote for the Listen music player!

Upgrading

Two old Athlon-based systems of mine were in desperate need of an upgrade - this kit Biostar Mainboard 8100M2+ SE AllInOne Athlon 5200+ X2 incl. 2GB RAM from Pearl worked perfectly. Windows 7 RC and Ubuntu 9.04 are the new operating systems.

As time goes by ...

Hard disk upgrade again for the Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo 7424 notebook: WD 320 Scorpio GB, works without problems.

Air Classics Gelnhausen

Spent a few hours with aviation at the weekend: See my pictures from

• FRA,
  

  FRA 20.06.09



• the Airlift memorial

  Berlin Airlift Memorial

  
  


• and Air Classics Gelnhausen
  
  

  Air Classics Gelnhausen 2009

at picasaweb.com/aelsas

Bluetooth

Bluetooth stick FreeTec BlueUSB04C from Pearl works perfectly under Xubuntu 9.04.

FFH Airshow Langenselbold

On June 13th 60,000 people visited the first FFH airshow at Langenselbold glider airfield. Highlights were the Royal Jordanian Falcons, Pioneer Team from Italy and a spectacular nightglow with fireworks.



See more impressions at picasaweb.com and youtube.com

Nokia E71

Just got a Nokia E71 - nice little machine, which fulfills all my communication needs. Works perfectly with Google Maps and GMail.

For synchronizing the calendar with the Google calendar I use goosync.com.

Upgrading

Upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my DELL Inspiron 8600 with Broadcom WLAN failed. A complete new install from CD worked perfectly.

Xubuntu 9.04

Today I installed Oracle XE on the new Xubuntu 9.04 - it worked ;-)

Minor problem was that XE forgot the passwords given on installation for SYSTEM and SYS, so it was impossible to login to APEX.

Solution was:

su - oracle
sqlplus /NOLOG
connect / as sysdba
ALTER user system identified by new_password;
ALTER user sys identified by new_password;

:-)

Home theatre again

New equipment:

• PS3 80GByte
• 16:9 screen Framestar 260 (260 x 146 cm)

Now I will try out fuppes as Linux-based media server: http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-a-linux-playstation-3-media-server-with-ubuntu8.04 worked great as a starting point, also on Intrepid.

Compatibility check

Just had the time to check XE on Ubuntu 8.10 and Mythbuntu 8.10 - no problems ;-)

XDB

While developing a new Apex application, suddenly the browser asked for XDB credentials instead of showing the pages. I am not sure what caused this problem, but the solution was to unlock the users SYSTEM and ANONYMOUS which suddenly were locked.

Upgrade again

Just upgraded from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 RC - no problems with Oracle XE. The same without RC ;-)