Okay, I'm an ungrateful whinger. MythTV so far has been an exercise in lost sleep and disappointment. Don't know if it's my TV card, the card's drivers, DVB (particularly HDTV) support in MythTV, or just the general stability of MythTV itself, but I'm far from happy.I've been holding off on buying a TV card for years, partly … Continue reading Experiences with MythTV – part 1
Author: Vic Cross
I was getting this error when trying to build a lot of the DVD ripping and transcoding software I was trying to use. Could not find any real resolution to the problem anywhere. Tonight I got the same error compiling MythTV, so I figured I'd have to try and work it out -- and a quick Google … Continue reading Can’t find a register in class GENERAL_REGS when reloading ‘asm’
Our man the star! At a local charity baby show today (for the Cerebral Palsy League), Nicholas collected six prizes in total, including the top prize of "Champion of the Day". Needless to say, we're all really proud!His six prizes included two firsts (including the CotD), two seconds, and two thirds. He won "Brightest Eyes" (no surprises there!), … Continue reading Nicholas wins Champion Of The Day at local baby show
My experiences with XBMC are still happy ones. I'm learning to live with its lockups (usually caused by me making vicious, unprovoked attacks on it by doing things like pressing buttons on the remote)... No, that's too harsh 🙂 In seriousness, I'm very impressed -- almost as impressed with it as I am with how much disk space … Continue reading More on XBMC — ‘Lets go to the movies!’
In spite of the fact that she never usually touches anything I set up without a cheat-sheet and at least a brief instruction tour, Susan managed to navigate through XBMC's menu to play some music. Not to detract from Susan's initiative and skill, but kudos to the XBMC team for making it easy enough to use … Continue reading Susan operates XBMC without training
It was probably the hottest day so far this year, but that didn't stop us meeting up with some out-of-town relatives (and some in-town ones) at the Roma Street Parklands.My Aunt Marion and her grand-daughters Jessica and Kaitlin visited my mum for a couple of days. Mum organised a day out in town, and invited the … Continue reading Our family day out on Sunday
Fun for young and old! Seriously, if you've got some time to kill (and potentially an XBox to kill as well!) you can take the opportunity to stick it to ol' Bill Gates up in Redmond and hack his little console machine. Depending on the application it can be a pretty cheap way to get the … Continue reading XBox modding
Only a couple of weeks after going all gooey over SqueezeBox and SlimServer, I've found another way of doing media streaming at home. I've now joined that rebel group known as "XBox-modders", and have a machine at home now running the XBox Media Centre.XBox Media Centre requires a modded XBox to operate, though as I found … Continue reading XBox Media Centre
Christmas 2004, already! Best wishes to everyone! Here's hoping that Santa brought you everything you wished for. Nicholas is rapt with his presents (a sit-down musical learning piano from Mummy and Daddy, a lovely soft puppy-dog toy from Aunty Berni, and a set of Baby's First Blocks from Uncle Roger) -- even though he doesn't really understand … Continue reading Merry Christmas to All!
Sometimes you find the absolutely coolest things completely by accident, proving my theory of "Zen Internet Navigation" (you rarely find what you want, but you often find something you needed to see). Last night I found SlimServer, a music streaming server that has to be about the coolest thing I've seen in ages (yes, even better … Continue reading SlimServer ROCKS!
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