While recently incapacitated, I took some time to get MythWeb set up and running. It was no sweat – just installed apache with PHP support on my Myth box, and installed MythWeb. gentoo makes it all easy as pie.
The icing on the cake is to install VLC on the client. (continued…)
sqlite is a sweet little answer to database storage for stand-alone applications. CppSQLite is the best C++ wrapper I found (NOTE: there are many). I didn’t find any quick instructions to get the C code statically linked into a Visual Studio 2005 C++ app, so here they are. At the end, I had all the code wrapped nicely into my application with a size increase of 132kb – and no dependencies! Whoop.
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From the “hard drive killer” department…
I was pretty excited to see that VS2005 has an embedded profiler – Micro$oft had to come up with a new name of course – “performance analyzer”. I threw HangTheDJ at it, going with all the defaults, and was served up with this gem before HangTheDJ even finished loading (as I happened to only have 8GB free at the time):
Performance automation returned the following error: : Error VSP1369 : Out of disk space: this scenario requires roughly 63073172 KB of disk space.Yes, that says 63GB. Oh, to have the box of a Micro$oft developer…
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Burned by not following my own instructions, I forgot to reinstall ivtv the last time I updated the kernel on my MythTV box. It was down for a couple days until I re-figured out that I needed to reinstall both nvidia and ivtv following the kernel update. A MythTV update is so easy if you just follow the instructions. :>
I’m reviewing database storage in my little app after several years of dealing with M$’s calculated disregard for older technology (DAO in this case). (continued…)
