Escape from boredom

@Update: See post 2011/01/17/what-really-caused-my-svn-checksum-mismatch-problem for final solution

Have been struggling with svn checksum mismatch problem which is annoying, but no show stopper due to the problem being possible to solve by workarounds as described in this blogpost glob.bushi.net.nz/…/subversion-checksum-mismatch-easy-workaround/

But still, I needed to figure out what the root cause was, and it turned out that the Perl search/replace was the sinner.
Issuing the command

perl -pi -e ‘s#ojdbc14_10.2.0.2.jar#ojdbc6_11.1.0.7.0.jar#g’ `find . | grep jdbc.xml`

then verifying the change by looking at the file using VI. But when issuing

svn status

svn was not able to see any changes. Then I added a xml-comment describing the change, saving and then svn commit I got the checksum error. After doing the workaround and then editing the file all manually, not issuing the Perl-command…voila, no problem. Have not been able yet to figure out why svn don’t like Perl search/replace changing the file…not sure if the -pi -e could be causing the problem, but I’m quite sure it has been accepted before.

Last week I had some struggle trying to enable NRK Nett-TV. The patchstick I had used installed XBMC 9.11, and I found the plugin described in this thread on freak.no. Could not get it to work, suspecting the mplayer-version causing the problem.

So I restored the box using factory restore, then created a patchstick by using the magical piece of software created by the guys behind atvusb-creator. A lot of cursing at first, since none of my usb-sticks would load (Kingston 8Gb), and also another stick of unknown make. Got to borrow a stick from Lars Tormod, one of many of a unknown make he had been handed at some event – but it did the trick. Patch booted, and now I’m running XBMC 10.0. In the list of video addons there is an addon named NRK…installed it and now out the box, we have NRK Nett-TV on our tv using the Apple-TV.

Also – remember to install Nito TV, then goto Settings –> Install Software –> Smart Installer. Thanks to http://www.todaywasawesome.com/enable-usb-on-the-apple-tv/ for reminding me by providing the post found when desperatly searching for help when my usb hard drive was not found. Note, you do not need to download up front, Smart Installer fixes that for you.

Just needed to post this one as a reminder to myself. Once in a while I need to update text between double brackets, often values of parameters like the case now

password="thepassword"
...
password="yetanotherpassoword"

Having a lot of this makes it annoying to update it manually, but by using Notepad++ which also have a regex-search-replace option it is easy

password=".*"

did the trick for me.