Posts by Sandman

  • Vu+ Ultimo - mini review

    Quote from thijss

    still a bit confused with the picons and VFD picons can they be used at the same time or not because everytime i download the one from TS panel
    the other one stops working. or do we need a file that update's the two kind of picon's at the same time ? (great job on them Sandman)


    Strange! The regular picons go in your 'picon' directory...the VFD ones go in your 'piconlcd' directory!


    It should be that simple...I'll get one of the guys to check the download in TSpanel...the directory may be incorrectly named!


    Do you know how to FTP? You could download the VFD picons from my thread (about to update it actually!) and upload the content over FTP!

  • Vu+ Ultimo - mini review

    Quote from phonix

    It still early days for the Ultimo im sure when more people get the box me included there will be more support and tutorials about


    if you are a seasoned E2 linux box owner it should not be to hard to find your way round


    VFD aside, the Ultimo is essentially the same as the Duo thijss so you can follow any of those tutorials!


    It'll be nice to have a VIX expert (is that you phonix? ;p) get theirs setup as there are a fair few difference and a lot of VFD issues (with my picons & VIX lol)

  • Vu+ Ultimo - mini review

    Quote from pem1

    hi sorry to hijack the thread but i have had a duo and now have a ultimo and the picture is better on hd and sd plus the pip works spot on and very fast throught the menus ? but on the down side way over priced and i dont see £200 differnce ? this is just my view


    Hijack away! The more opinion the better :)


    My PIP just stutters and flashes and plays in slooooowwwwmmmmooooo when watching HD channels - does yours work fine on both SD & HD channels?

  • Got my Vu+DUO, where do i start ?

    Quote from wozbwfc

    i have put image on box installed hard drive. but when flicking through optoins and that on box loads wrighting comes up saying problem with software and says rebooting. is this cos i dont have dish or motor installed yet..


    Is it in a green screen loop? Take a picture of the message if you can and paste it up!

  • Vu+ Ultimo - mini review

    Quote from mathiaskt

    Hi Sandman,


    It is a couple of weeks you have had the box now. How do you find it? How about the picture quality? I am not sure if you have used the TM800HD but they do have some pretty decent picture quality. Can the Vu+ Ultimo match? Do you find the remote control key sticky (as the TM800HD is). How responsive is the box?


    Thanks,
    Mathias


    Mathias,


    The box is going great! Unfortunately I have only ever had a Vu+ Duo and this Ultimo so can't tell you if the picture is comparable!


    I have my box plugged into a 50" Pioneer Kuro screen and the quality is superb!


    I would say the overall responsiveness is similar to the Duo, I don't use any 3rd party plugins like YouTube, Project Valerie etc so I probably don't put the box under much load!


    The remote was put back in the box after a few hours...I didn't like the responsiveness of the buttons but apparently they soften with use...I use various Harmony remotes so it wasn't really needed!


    I really have no complaints, other than the fact the Duo now 'looks' so pale in comparison :snicker:

  • Oscam log to big!!!

    Quote from drfs

    Hi, I'm running cccam/oscam on a Dreambox500 s and on tmp is creating 2 log (oscam.log and oscam.log.prev) the oscam.log.prev is always a file with more than 1mb which is to big as 500s has a small memory. In oscam.conf i have disablelog = 0.


    What can i do to solve this.


    Thanks


    To disable the log you set the value to '1'


    If you want to keep a log but limit the size - 'maxlogsize = 512' (1/2 MB)

  • freeup unused RAM

    Quote from cazuela

    In a word: NO ,,I havent noticed a difference, I found this info while looking for some way to free up the flash as there´s something amiss:


    all suggestions welcome ;)


    ah ok...your flash and ram are separate...


    If its a totally clean image then its very strange...Any time I've had a full flash it was something i had installed!


    One time though, a BH beta was using nearly all the flash for no reason so I removed it and waited for the latest release which was fine....you look like you're using 1.7.0 so it could be a bum install :-S

  • freeup unused RAM

    Did you notice a speed improvement? I would have thought dropping the cache would actually slow things down!


    I have next to nothing free on my Ultimo but have no speed issues -


    root@vuultimo:~# free
    total used free shared buffers
    Mem: 275108 270964 4144 0 10132
    Swap: 262140 0 262140
    Total: 537248 270964 266284
    root@vuultimo:~#

  • Virgin to double broadband speed

    Virgin Media’s chief executive Neil Berkett said: “We're now in the position we should have been in 15 years ago...we've wasted some serious time trying to get ahead of the game without actually managing to get anywhere so we'll maybe start streaming full HD movies sometime after 2030"


    I had NTHell/Virgin back in the day when I lived in town...I kept waiting for them to whoop Sly and destroy pretty much every other internet provider...good job I'm still not waiting!!

  • Want to Set up linux pc server need newbie info!

    Quote from canford

    That sounds alright but out of Curiosity how do these people who charge you a monthly fee are able to provide 100,s of clines.


    20-30 is conservative ;) I was playing safe lol


    They would use optimised servers and likely have multiple cards load balanced etc etc...


    They also don't really care about quality so drop outs and freezing would be the norm!