Archive for the ‘Varia’ Category

Stream dreambox video to PC via VLC

 
This ultra-small tutorial explains how to watch dreambox satellite TV on your PC using the latest version of VLC. If you have problems getting it to work try the comments section, maybe I can help.
 
Setup:
 

Firefox 3.5.7
VLC 1.0.3
Dreambox 7000s / Enigma 1 / PLI JADE 2 (other setups not tested)

 
Parameters in [...]

False positives after update Avast (fixed!)

UPDATE: THE ISSUE IS RESOLVED / FIXED : updated version: 091203-1
Continue reading at the bottom of this post for info on the fix
What was going on:
The latest Avast virusdatabase update came with a serious bug. In version 091203-0 various files* are being marked as “Win32:Delf-MZG (Trj)”. These are all false positives and should
be ignored. [...]

PC-based DVB-S2 satellite receiver part 1

Please continue to the updated post.

Twitter spam phishing continues

There is a new Twitter phishing scam making the rounds, and this one is spreading quickly via direct message, wrote by Ben Parr on Mashable.com in October.
Indeed, when using Twitter, I have noticed a lot of DMs in my inbox containing weird messages accompanied by a short URL. Twitters @SPAM acount wrote a few [...]