I just stumbled across an article in the Danish newspaper Politiken, which give some recommendations about how to create strong passwords, which is all fine. However it also recommends that you test your password with passwordmeter.com (I actually expect… more »

Problems with the capture cards have continued, so in the end I had to unplug my Hauppauge Nova-T PCI card.Otherwise dmesg would show errors like:hub 1-0:1.0: port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2DiB0… more »

Some weeks ago I tried getting MythTV to run in a KVM guest without much luck to say the least. Today I set forth to install MythTV on the KVM host itself and get my Hauppauge Nova-T PCI card and Terratec Cinergy T5 USB stick to work.This lead me thr… more »

For a long time I've been sharing the Portage tree over NFS to my virtual servers. However NFS is not exactly firewall friendly and feels a bit dated. So I've been looking for other alternatives. Today I stumbled across GlusterFS and took it for a spin.… more »

The past few weeks I've been experimenting a bit with mapping PCI and USB devices to KVM guests, with mixed luck. With qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2 USB 1.1 works alright, but my DVB-T stick doesn't work with USB 1.1 as it needs USB 2.0.I had a bit more luck… more »