I have been having odd problems with a Mach Speed Viper K8M8MSr2 motherboard under Linux. All of my other machines, at this point in time, happen to be the same brand, make, and virtually the same model: those are the “r1″ or revision 1 boards. The problem I am seeing under Linux is: I cannot [...]

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Because we have DirecTV with the RCA satellite receiver, there is one key script for managing the most important item with the set top box: changing the channel. From the site http://www.pdp8.net/directv/directv.shtml, I pulled down the following SetTopBox script script, and it worked beautifully. However, one thing didn’t work with the standard “./directv.pl setup_channel” command: [...]

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