(source flickr, no it is not me)

In a recent post I joked about willy (this site) former hardware being the oldest server on the net. Well, it turned out that it might have been one of the slowest, but not the oldest. At least, there is actually a C=64 serving webpages with this ethernet board and it can be found on http://www.c64web.com/.

And yes, it seems it is actually running on a C=64:

krokodil-boerland-home:~ bert$ telnet www.c64web.com 80
Trying 58.6.118.18...
Connected to c64web.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Contiki/2.2.2 http://www.sics.se/contiki/
Connection: close
Content-type: text/html

So do not be surprised when I move this webserver over to my old C=64 running Contiki. :-)

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As you might know, I am a big fan of using EyeTV as well as Plex on my mac mini hooked to my telly. Plex is the best mediacentre for the mac, EyeTV a way to view live TV on your Mac with EPG and much more.

Sometime ago I posted about integrating them, watching live or timeshifted TV on your mac within Plex on this post. Though the code is very rough and far from finished and seems to be orphaned already, I would like to suggest a cool feature.

Wath EyeTV in Plex and have Plex look in to the EGP and searches for tweets about the program you are watching, live or timeshifted. I do not watch much TV let alone live TV, but part of the joy of watching TV is seeing what others have to say about this via twitter. And watching this on a TV with live tweets updates about the program you are watching sure sounds something that TV's will have in half a decade.

BTW: follow me on twitter on @bertboerland.

I finnaly moved this website from my 15 year old pentium 166 with a load over 20 to some better iron, some decent 3 year old hardware. The new machine had a newer PHP version and my /ancient/ Drupal install was fine with that. However, I was unable to log in. Took me some time to see if this was caching or Cookie related but found it, adding
register_shutdown_function('session_write_close');
to the sessions.inc did the trick

So this website should be more stable now, and faster. I will get a new ADSL line in a couple of week upgrading to 20Mb so should be even faster in some time. With some downtime however, I will get a new IP address as well and need to change my zones when I know what this address will be.

Thank you bas for giving me "havenmeester" (aka tug) 5 years ago. Even at that time dated hardware but served me well. It is just that the fan of the CPU makes an enormous amount of noise now.

shutdown -h now.

We salute you Tug, the oldest webserver on the net :-)

Since a couple of weeks I have a nice Mac Mini (unboxing) hooked up with EyeTV to my telly so I can record, timeshift, commercial skipping and do all the other PVR stuff from my chair. Yes, I have been using MythTV the couple of years, but the box was more under maintenance then in production. So I went the easy way and went Apple, like I will do for all my client computers (still using Linux for servers!). The Mac mini is cool and I use other standard apps as well, especially Plex. I like easy and it integrates with my iPhone so I can watch recorded and live shows on my iPhone as well (picture).

Plex, iTunes, iPhoto and EyeTV make up 99% of the programs I use on my mini. And in fact, since iTunes can be access from Plex, as well as iPhoto can, I should only use EyeTV and Plex. If you do not know about Plex as a Apple user, shame on you. It is the best thing since sliced bread, including an appstore, modules, themes and a /beautiful/ user interface. And free as in open source as well.

Still, watching TV and switching between applications does not give the right usability to my girly (and to lesser extend :-), my kids). So I would really like to see EyeTV and Plex integrated. There has been lots of talk about integration, for over a year or so. But no code was ever made available. Up to a couple of weeks ago!

Yes, there is actual Open Source code that you can use to access your EyeTV recording and live TV within Plex! Read this thread at the plexapp forums!

Not that the code is very alpha and does not have any EPG integration yet. But still, this is so cool!

Here is a short install howto from the forum pages (not complete

1) Ensure Snow leopard is up-to-date - 10.6.2

2) Ensure Plex is up-to-date - 0.8.5

3) Ensure EyeTV is up-to-date - 3.3

4) Ensure Xcode is up to date -3.1

5) Ensure iPhone streaming is enabled under EyeTV>Preferences

6) Install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/

7) Once Installed -normall diskimage- , run Terminal from Utilities>Terminal.app

8 ) At the prompt "sudo port install ffmpeg" (without quotes)

9) Typ your password

10) ffmpeg takes long to install about 30 minutes to d/l and install each component.

11) Install Imagemagick from Macports using similar command in the same Terminal "sudo port install imagemagick" (without quotes)

12) This can take another 15 minutes to install after supplying system password

13) Installed the EyeTV/Plex Plugin 0.2 (se link above) OR LATER!

14) when the plugin is installed, a cytv.app(a modification) should be opened together with eyetv. in the dock click on cytv to have this app active. then in menubar click on "EyeTV - CyTV-Install Plugin".

15) Right click (ctrl+click) on cytv in the dock, and choose "show in finder". then right click on the app and choose "Show Package Contents". navigate to Contents - Resources and rename ffmepg_custom to ffmpeg_custom_old and ffmpeg_custom_0.5 to ffmpeg_custom.

16) Unable to rename these files? Pressed Apple+I, in the Info screen at the bottom of this window is the Permissions option, change the permissions of my user on these files to read+write, I was then able to rename both files.

17) change rights with the following 2 lines in terminal (use your username instead of $USER):

chmod a+x /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-ins/EyeTV.bundle/Contents/Helpers/*

chmod a+x /Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-ins/EyeTV.bundle/Contents/Helpers/CyTV.app/Contents/MacOS/*

This should do the trick. But if you are not that good with Unix best to wait until this is beta or production code. All I need now is an asterisk integration and I will never leave my TV :-)

When you visit the DrupalCon Paris and have an iPhone you need to pack more then your suitcase and laptopbag. Do not forget to fill up your iPhone with some goodies. I shopped around and I do think that these apps are worth putting on your phone: (from left to right, up to down)

• , including integration with Google Maps and SMS services about delays
• , one of the best independent TV stations, in French and English, free app. (note: Do disable data roaming on your phone and watch this only when on WiFi).
• , information, maps, districts (arrondissements) information, photo's.
• , same as above but too expensive, don't buy.
• , Offline maps, handy.
• , Paris City Guide from Lonely planet. Expensive but good.
• (Skiping French, I should be able to order a beer or two in French, something like "deux biere s'il vous plaît")
• , if you are from Burma, Liberia, and the United States or some kingdom and you are not familiar with kilometers, euro's, celcius and liters, you might want to use this free app.
• Next on the list is a must have if you a free (aka jailbroken) iPhone, the ability to capture video n first and second generations iPhones. Just look for cycorder in cydia.
• , where to? is a great application to find restaurants and other places if you hav a GSM on your iPhone.
• , Flight Track pro is a great application for making sure you catch your flight.
• , Flickup is a flickr uploader from your iPhone.
• , Twitterrific is a handy application to keep track on your friends and follow tags. I hope the wifi will survive the 1000+ IP enabled devices on the DrupalCon.

At the conference the official tag(s) to used will be given out for your tweets, flickrs and other social networks contributions, but I do think i will be dcp09 so you might want to use that when twittering about the Druaplcon before day 1.

A word of warning. Please disables your ssh deamon on your jailbroken iPhone unless you think it is funny to walk around hunderds of nerds with a default root/alpine giving someone full control on your iPhone. And no matter how friendly the community is on many con's (in the city or even at the conference) hardware has been stolen, mine 3 years ago as well. So do keep an eye out on the security of your systems, both software and physical wise. Also make sure you now what the costs are of roaming and if you dont, disable data roaming on your phone!