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My Electronic Woes: LCD TV

I think I could consider myself really unlucky with electronics this year. I bought my mother an EEE PC netbook which, after 9 days had a noisy fan and the store didnt want to have it replace or refunded.. But thats a different story.. This is about my LCD TV problems. I got an HSBC credit card for 2 reasons. 1: the Caltex rebate and 2: the MyScreen LCD TV. You could scroll down and skip this back story and head to the "Testing the TV: Here Comes the Bad Part" if you're not particular with my reasons in buying the TV. If you're interested with why I got it, carry on. Reasons The MyScreen MYS-22 (22 inch) TV is priced 11,500 pesos thru the promo of HSBC. With that you get 1080i, and HDMI port, an audio out, an audio in, VGA in, RCA in, Component in, a remote, and pretty much thats about it. You could read the full specs here . I did my homework, Ive read reviews and so far, and a positive feedback was given by SonOfKratos in his review in TipidPC. You could read his r...

Adding Start Up Service With Webmin

We all know that Webmin is like a swiss army knife for Linux SysAds, but again, there are some programs you want to start running as your machine boots or to shut down the program when you invoke a shut down command or a reboot. I personally use this during power failures when the system wakes up, I want all programs to be up and running. As an example, ive downloaded and compiled inadyn, a dynamic DNS updater for Linux. First important thing to know is the directory where the program is located.. When logged in in your shell, go to the directory where the program is located and type pwd (that is print working directory) and it will give you your current location. In my case the result is: /root/inadyn/bin/linux/ Then you should know if theres a proper shut down command for the program, in inadyns case, theres none. Also, take note of the program name.. In my case the program name is inadyn and I run the program using ./inadyn Theres a trick here, since if you run it, it will be just ...