http://www.englishteeth.co.uk ... the weblog of Ian "English Teeth" Robinson Sat, 30 May 2009 14:39:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At this point this all file types and HD-DVD/blu-ray should be working. This is a clean blank set up and I should (though I never do) back up/take an image, whatever.. Everything OK - Media Center Set-up -sort out the guide listings. Scan for channels Do a manual scan on 10714.00 H, 22000 for ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2009/05/30/vmc-setup/ My last hardware update was bubbling under for quite a while. My graphics card was good, but I wanted better, more efficient HD playback. An article be Jeff Atwood on just that "Easy, Efficient Hi-Def Video Playback" was the final push necessary. In it Jeff decribes a great solution, using a magic ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2009/05/30/vmc-software/ So everything is put together and connected up... Install O/S - blitz main partition/primary drive. (If this is a re-install you're fine, because all you media is on the second drive.) Nothing to say about this bit. Follow the prompts and make a brew in between. Start up and deal with any primary ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2009/05/30/vmc-os-and-drivers/ My hardware desirements currently consist of: Silverstone LC14MC Case Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H, AMD 780G AMD Athlon 64 X2 5050e, Socket AM2 2GB DDR2-800 PC2-6400 LG GGC H20L Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Rom Combo Drive BlackGold BGT3540 DVB-S and DVB-T tuner card Media Center IR Receiver 2 Hard Drives I prefer two drives, but this is not essential. I like to separate the operating ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2009/05/30/vmc-hardware/ I wanted to put together a set of instructions for a Home Theatre PC destined to fit into the living room and be accepted as part of the TV as opposed to a computer. There are a couple of little tricks that are outside the install wizards that I think make ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2009/05/30/vmc-setup-instructions/ Something that felt like forever to track down… A test running problem free on the test server was throwing a transformer error locally: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Had IO Exception with stylesheet file: C:\jboss-4.0.3SP1\server\default\conf\documentservice\pmi\include.xslt at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.processFromNode(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:126) ... On the surface, it looked like there was no difference in the environments; same deployed war file, same JBoss version, ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2009/02/20/jboss-xalan-and-me/ I'm a fan of the DVD Library functionality built into Windows Media Center Edition and Vista Media Center. I prefer it over something like My Movies purely because of it's slickness and simplicity. Though I have no idea why the ability to enable it is not a core configuration option, the ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2009/02/12/vmc-dvd-library/ It's been a while since I posted, it's been a busy few months. However the inertia is certainly partially down to me feeling that I needed to post about the site attack by some phishing scam towards the end of last year. All of a sudden traffic to the site peaked ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2009/01/27/gone-phishing/ Todays challenge.. Security! Hardly a challenge at all really, the JSecurity Plugin - Quick Start takes you through everything you need to do and there's also a AcegiSecurity Plugin, if that's your bag. There you go, post done. Well... unless you want/need to use JEE role based authentication at the application server ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2008/10/22/grails-security/ So it seems that every month or so I am able to blow the dust off my little Groovy on Grails project and progress it a little. A little frustrating, since the elapsed time of this belies the gains in using grails. I have a working application. It has a few ... http://www.englishteeth.co.uk/2008/10/17/deplyoing-a-grails-application-to-jboss/