The word according to me

Ever since i upgraded to WM6.1 i have always found the threaded text messages a problem when writing a message to someone. Its extremely useful if your trying to reply to a message but i always thought that it did not show enough lines of the text i’m personally writing.

When i had my HTC Vox (or Orange SPV E650 as orange themselves would like to call it) this was no so much of a problem. I could type so quickly on the keyboard I had no need to keep reading back through the text i had previously. Now with my HTC Touch Diamond texting takes a lot longer so its nice to see the last sentance or two that i have written.

Thanks to this thread i have now successfully changed the size of the field that is provided.

Details are as follows:

1. Go to the windows directory on your phone
2. Find file threaded_sms.htm
3. Find line: <Inbox:content id=”COMPOSESUBJECT” width=”98%” height=35
4. Change the height=35 to whatever you like.
5. Save and soft reset your phone.

I have changed mine so it looks like <Inbox:content id=”COMPOSESUBJECT” width=”98%” height=50. This gives me 3 lines of the text im writing rather than two.

After coming across a 250gb hard disk I had forgotten about I decided to replace the existing noisy 20gb hard drive in my TV server. Rather than doing a fresh install I tried to do a side to side copy of the system… did not go to well.

In the end I did a fresh minimal install of ubuntu 8.10. On my initial boot I came across a grub ‘error 18′. After some investigation i realised the boot partition was bigger than the size supported by the motherboard. Did another install but this time added in a small 300MB boot partition. Now the system boots happily! Happy days!

The next issue is related to groups. I installed vlc-nox and placed my init script back into its home on the new install. I tried to run it but it failed horribly with VLC complaining about unable to open /dev/video0. After trying a few things (i installed the vlc package amongst other things) i decided to check out the permissions of /dev/video0 and that is where the problem was. The device has permissions of 660 with a owner of root:video. So I added my user to the video group. Rebooted and tv server was back to normal!

So reminder to self: Check permissions first. Then anything else!

At home I have my virgin STB connected up to a old 450mhz server. I then use this machine to forward the picture onto which ever machine I am using at the time.  I found that adding the following line to a script that is run at startup (mine runs within my vlc init.d script) solves all the problems i was seeing with the pvr-350:

v4l2-ctl –set-ctrl temporal_filter=0 –set-input=5

Once this line is in place the ghosting issues i was seeing vanished. The set-input of course tells the pvr to use the scart input.

This post is mainly for a reminder in the case i ever rebuild this box. However there is possibly some chance someone might find this useful!

I have finally found the time to get my blog operational again. So happy new year everyone!