In my initial impressions, I noted that the “Planner” page of the MySky interface wasn’t that great. So far, this is what has annoyed me most. Continue reading “MySky Interface”
Author: tonyandrewmeyer
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MySky Playlists
More MySky Loopthrough
A comment here indicates that for loopthrough to work one needs a SCART-SCART cable, and not SCART->component. That would explain why it doesn’t work – and also makes the feature pretty worthless since there must be about 3 TVs in all of New Zealand that have SCART input.
MySky Loopthrough Problem
Another MySky update: I moved everything about yesterday, removing the VCR from the lounge. The MySky manual mentions a “loopthrough” feature, in which a single AV channel on a TV can be shared between MySky and another device (e.g. a DVD player or PlayStation). The manual says to have the SCART output labelled “TV” go to the TV’s AV port (unsurprisingly), and (surprisingly) have the other SCART output (input?) go to the other device (e.g. DVD player). Then pressing the “AV” button on the remote will swap between Sky and the other device.
This would be useful for me, because unfortunately the TV in the lounge only has a single AV channel (and only one set of plugs, at the rear), so I could plug both the DVD player and MySky in (rather than the current setup, which has the DVD player plugged in, and Sky through the RF leads, which isn’t as high quality).
However, this just doesn’t seem to work. The “TV” SCART seems to output the MySky signal or (if “AV” is pressed) no signal at all. The other SCART constantly outputs the MySky signal (as with non-PVR Sky, it’s an output, not an input). The other video connections are all output as well.
Something else to ask about as well as the broken series link feature, I suppose.
Initial MySky Impressions
It’s been about 48 hours since I had my MySky box installed, so I thought I’d note down a few initial impressions. Continue reading “Initial MySky Impressions”
Getting MySky
emlx Files
For the moment, I’m using Apple‘s Mail as my primary email client (even though it’s bafflingly slow at displaying messages at times (they’re simple text files!), gets stuck updating at times, and won’t let me tell it that ihug‘s SSL certificate is ok (which is partly ihug’s fault for buying some cheap one instead of something that programs would recognise) it does have some nice features, and beats any of the other mail clients I’ve tried).
As of Tiger, Mail stores messages in individual emlx files, scattered through various folders in the ~/Library/Mail folder. For use with SpamBayes‘ test setup (as well as others, like the TREC one), I need messages in individual files in plain RFC2822 format.
What I needed was a simple export script (much like the existing Outlook export script – except hopefully faster and including attachments) that would create RFC2822 copies of the emlx files in the standard SpamBayes format (ham and spam directories containing a reservoir directory containing messages as individual text files).
I had thought that this might be quite difficult (take a look at the Outlook export script!) since emlx is a proprietory format. Thankfully, I discovered that the first line is the size of the message in bytes (as text), followed by the RFC2822 message itself, followed by a plist containing various Mail information I’m not interested in (flags, sender, etc). Nice to see that Apple can keep things simple.
So the SpamBayes distribution now contains a simple export_apple_mail.py script that will do the job.
Tools
(Moved over from my Massey site.
Future entries will be separate, but in the Tools category).
These are the tools that I regularly use, and which I would obviously recommend:
2nd November 2005 Python-Dev Summary
The second November Python-Dev summary is now out. This took a while (even though the summary was actually finished a while back), but is the first summary that I’ve actually been able to publish on the pydotorg website myself, without Brett’s help. This should mean that future summaries are quicker to get out.
(Steve and I are working on the December summaries now – end-of-year tasks delayed the first December summary).
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Obscurity
Weird.? I migrated some of the content from my Massey site here today (so that it doesn’t vanish when the Massey site does), and this (completely unlinked, apart from one from there) blog suddenly gets found.
HawkWings found my quoting tutorial (prepared for the Written Communication for Information Sciences paper at Massey), which has been on my website since the 27th of October last year (about 13.5 months).? Go figure. Continue reading “Obscurity”
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