Reuben Crane

Dell Service Tag from FreeBSD CLI

By Reuben Crane August 26, 2014FreeBSDNo Comments

To display your Dell's service tag, log in as root and run: # dmidecode -s system-serial-number No more trying to find the label! Source: http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/kcs/kcsarticles/articleview?docid=389572

Goodbye Free Dyn DNS

By Reuben Crane April 10, 2014PHPNo Comments

I have a home server. I don't direct the general public to this server but I do need to occasionally SSH to it. I know where that server is on…

Internet Explorer 11 has issues with ASP.NET 4.0

By Reuben Crane November 27, 2013ASP.NET5 Comments

A intranet web application that I administrate suddenly was not working. From only Internet Explorer 11 the Report Viewer would never finishing loading and the rendered menu control had arrows…

Mythweb Video Cover Art

By Reuben Crane July 19, 2013MythwebNo Comments

I am currently running Mythweb on Lighttpd for remotely scheduling all my programs. I rarely use the MythTv front-end for anything except playback. (I have a separate front-end from back-end…

Transcoded MythTV Not Playing on Samsung TV

By Reuben Crane April 26, 2013MythTVNo Comments

The transcoded MythTV files I have been creating using my cut script do not play on my Samsung TV (uses an external USB HDD). Older files created from MythTV lossless transcode…

WordPress Comment Textarea Missing

By Reuben Crane April 26, 2013WordPressNo Comments

I just noticed the textarea for comment submission is screwed up on my blog. Upon inspection I see a iframe not a textarea and I cannot add any comments, atleast…

PHP Error Handling

By Reuben Crane April 17, 2013PHPNo Comments

I recently became extremely frustrated with certain host and the lack of features they offered on the Windows plan. I prefer Linux or FreeBSD but I couldn't change the website…

Ellipsis in WordPress Causes Random Quote Marks

By Reuben Crane March 18, 2013WordPressNo Comments

I recently found that an ellipsis (...) in a WordPress (3.3.1) post/page would cause random quote marks to show up around the words surrounding that ellipsis. I noticed this behavior…

MythTV Commercial Cut Script

By Reuben Crane December 31, 2012Bash, FreeBSD, MythTV6 Comments

I have been using MythTV to record OTA Broadcast television since March 2012 on my FreeBSD server. I recently updated to version 0.26 and found that the mythtranscode utility no longer…

Screen Command

By Reuben Crane December 26, 2012FreeBSDNo Comments

SSH is great for accessing my home FreeBSD server. Unfortunately, sometimes an install takes too long and I need to disconnect from the session without stopping the current process. Screen…