Blogger Wiki

At least this blogger should allow you to post stuff as in a wiki.
With certain tags to make text bold, link to other blogs, blah blah blah.

Screw blogs!

A random post

Yo folks,

Just a random post because I felt like it.

Been working all weekend in my garden, been stressing (so it seems) the last couple of weeks.
The company I worked for had some problems. They guy who's supposed to manage me lost it and wasted my time.
I've bought some land thousands of miles away.

These things start working on your nerves, even if you're trying to do what's right and attempting to keep the Buddha nature in mind.

So anyway, that's what's happened.

In the mean time, work, or so I call it, has been keeping my mind occupied.
I've been looking into Electronics, Handworks like putting up a fence, and of course the standard passtime, fucking around with linux and stuff.

Let me give you some final things:
- Ubuntu is a good linux distribution.
- For basic electronics tutorials, go to epanorama.
- Do some physical work but don't overdo it. It's good to use your body.

Stay well.

Hotbird and Astra on a monoblock LNB finally working

It's been a long struggle to get the monoblock LNB to see both Astra
19.2 and Hotbird 13 E.

When I first bought the kit, it looked simple, point it to one, and it
will see the other.
After experimenting it was never showing me both at the same time.

I either pointed it at Hotbird or at Astra.
Just now it came to me through a forum somewhere, I felt I needed to
look for it again.
A friend told me to look for certain info about a cam and go to this forum.
When I entered the forum, couldn't see anything, registered and there
it was: how to see both Astra and Hotbird with a monoblock LNB.

Here's the stuff you need to be aware of.
Point it to Hotbird, the other part (when you're behind the dish, the
LNB on the lefthandside should be in the middle of the dish, the one
on the righthand side should be right, not in the bracket) will
automatically point more or less to Astra.

And here's the trick:

Go to your settings of your LNB, choose Univeral for the type of it.
Make sure you have Astra 19.2 and Hotbird in the list (well, Hotbird
should have worked if want this to work).
Go to DiSEqC Port when Hotbird is selected and assign it, in my case, Mini A.
Then select Astra 19.2 and assign it Mini B.

That's it, it worked.

My pointing must have been pretty good.

HTH (hope this helps)