LAN + Networks

Just saw this - looks great!

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18270

With MythTV moving to QT4, which has a wider range of functionality on various devices, plus a whole host of improvements - I think things are definately on the upswing for MythTV.

I have several Gentoo Linux machines set up for various purposes - and I've decided to get them all up to speed for programming / version control / backup. Stage one: install various apps like PhpMyAdmin for direct database access.

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I've spent a fair amount of time setting up a Zabbix system monitoring system to monitor the functioning of the LAN computers - Gentoo and Windows. Other than Zabbix 1.1.7 being a little tedious to set up, including the various add-on scanners I've configured, its fairly easy.

However, monitoring computers outside the LAN has been tricky, as I want to do it securely. Zabbix sends its info (at least in this version) through clear text, and I'd like to have in encrypted.

After several attempts at configuring AutoSSH (over several months :roll: ) I made some progress - first this article had some handy steps for testing:

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I've been looking at having the MythTV 'Videos' area have some useful information gatered from the internet - say for movies and such.

So, I've gathered up a couple of scripts, and done some extra work to customize them for my needs:

• a script that goes through all the sub-directories of the /Videos/ directory, and create thumbnails of the videos as needed. These look great and really make for a more visual MythTV experience
• a script that goes through the 'tv' sub-directory, and look up the TV related information, such as plot, running time, etc.
• a script that goes through the 'movies' sub-directory and looks up the movie information from IMDb, the Internet Movie Database. I haven't used this one yet, so we'll see if it works out-of-the-box for my scenario.

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Really, this is a test of crossposting - also tho it is a record of an issue I've been having recently on the LAN - until about mid-may all computers on the LAN would show up on the Network Neighbourhood Window - like this picture:

Now however only a handful are showing up - although they can still be accessed via 'map network drive' - you just have to know the right name. I think the culprit is an WinXP patch update I did a while ago, although that doesn't explain why some of the linux comps are no longer coming up.