October 2009

Show the architecture of installed rpm packages

Posted by Ryan on October 6, 2009 in ComputerInfo, Linux

rpm -qa –queryformat “%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH}\n” | grep <package_name>
Check out the link below for additional info.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-display-rpm-package-architecture/

Upgraded MythTV setup!

Posted by Ryan on October 5, 2009 in ComputerInfo, Entertainment, Linux

The hardware in my MythTV setup I previously mentioned is no more!  Why?  Well two reasons really:
I kept finding myself processor bound when trying to watch HD, let alone recording SD or HD at the same time (that was a lost cause)
AND
I was getting very odd I/O errors in the mysql/mythtv logs.  I found many [...]