EAC with my new Pioneer BDR-S06XLB

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

The tray of my old HP DVD-ROM writer drive sometimes did not response. I was afraid that my CDs might get stuck in the drive, so I have replaced it with a new Pioneer Blue-ray drive.

After installing the new drive, I have also updated the EAC drive options. The steps can be found here. I had used a Clannad CD to performed the offset correction test. For other CDs that can work with EAC, please see this list.

The CD ripping speed seems to be about the same to my old HP drive. But comparing the BDR-S06XLB with my old earth-quaking spinning HP drive, the Pioneer drive is so smooth and so quiet!

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installing Sophos on Centos

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

If Sophos complains about Talpa modules right after the installation, try update it first. Usually the problem can be solved.

 /opt/sophos-av/bin/savupdate

Besides, if there is new kernel release, make sure Sophos has already supported it before apply it to your system.

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Squeezebox Duet Controller problem after upgrade

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Early this month, I updated my Squeezebox Duet Controller to firmware 7.6.1 r9482. After the update, the controller could not restart properly – it kept rebooting itself. This was the first time I hit this situation after updating its firmware.

To fix it, follow the instructions on the Logitech page and reset the controller to factory default setting. After the controller resumed, I had then installed the Android fonts for CJK language support.

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perl-5.8.8-32.el5_6.3 and squeezeboxserver-7.6.0-1

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Recently I had updated my perl RPM to perl-5.8.8-32.el5_6.3. After the update, the Squeezebox Server could not start up. It complained about:

weaken is only available with the XS version of Scalar::Util

After doing some searching, I fixed that by:

#perl -MCPAN -e shell;
cpan>force install Scalar::Util
cpan>quit

FYI, my server is running CentOS 5.

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NVidia GT440 and XP boot up problem

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

I was using a NVidia GeForce 8600 display card. After I hit the “blue screen” a few times, I decided to replace the display card and hoping that the system will become stable again and also gain some performance boost.

After replacing the display card with a new NVidia GT 440 card, I rebooted the system. However, no matter whether I started my Windows XP in normal mode or safe mode, the system simply got stuck at the Windows XP boot up screen – the progress bar animation keeps moving but it simply refused to proceed any further.

After a couple hours of tests, the problem was solved by disabling the “Memory Remap Feature” and “ASUS C.G.I. Function” from the BIOS.

If you are facing similar problem with a new NVidia display card, try fiddling the BIOS setting before give up.

Cheers.

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