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The most visible part in any home environment is the media system. Ever since real fireplaces fell out of fashion, the TV or stereo system has become the focal point of most living rooms. The TV and stereo system are also the devices with which we spend the most time interacting. It is therefore essential that you understand the possibilities of these devices.
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You have to terminate the hung process and manually tag the file.
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You might also need the Win32 codecs package (w32codecs).
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It is technically possible to play tapes and records at higher speeds (using high-speed dubbing tape players or switching the record deck to 45 rpm) and compensate by pitch shifting in software. But isn’t really worth the effort or loss in quality.
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The same applies to Windows XP SP3, Windows 7, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows 2008 Server.
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If you’re a keen systems administrator, you can use Logical Volume Management (LVM) 2 to dynamically grow the size of partitions on your Linux system.
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The word server is used in this context to denote a physical piece of hardware, whereas a service is for elements of software that provide access to data or resources on a server. Confusingly, the most common name for these services are things such as e-mail server, web server, and so on.
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It even inspired its own term, tivoization, to cover any device that runs using free software but prevents you from exercising your rights to modify and reuse it through hardware chicanery.
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There are a few HDMI switch boxes now appearing on the market, but these contain only HDMI switching such as the one shown at http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/hdmi-matrix-switch-4x2.html. They are still hugely expensive, so realistically the choice now is either to have local processing of data or to distribute only a standard-definition version of the picture around the house.
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This is one of the prestated aims of the bluemon package.
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A complete list would be impossible here, but alternatives include http://tuxmobil.org/bluetooth_cell_apps.html.
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Goodwin, S. (2013). Media Systems: Incorporating the TV and the HiFi. In: Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5888-9_3
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