Nicholas turns one today!So far today he's had cake at day care, and taken delivery of his birthday present -- the Fisher Price Laugh&Learn Learning Home (which only took Daddy half an hour to assemble, but it is really cool). Party is on Saturday, and we're all looking forward to that!
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When does Shareware become crippleware? When a critical function is removed from the free distribution of a program, and only activated when you purchase it. I just wasted half an hour on a program called Audio Edit by mp3towav.org -- nowhere in the documentation does it say that you can't save anything unless you register!NO, mp3towav.org, I … Continue reading Crippleware BEGONE!
While debugging a problem with some C code, I came across this laugh-out-loud funny (in a very geeky way) explanation of one of the evils of the short-circuit evaluation of logical expressions.Stick with it, it's really quite funny. Mom (thinks in VB-ish): If kid.CleanTheDishes() And kid.DoHomework() Then we.GoToMovie you.PickMovie() End If Child (thinks in C-ish) … Continue reading She just doesn’t understand!
For all the regular readers of Crossed Wires, you should both be able to pick up normal RSS feeds now (at least my Cisco phone doesn't barf on it anymore).I have altered my previous practice of using multiple paragraphs in the first body section. Polarblog's RSS feed generator uses that field as the "description" field for … Continue reading RSS feeds fixed
I'm softening a little on MythTV. Last night I recorded a program and it looked quite good. I got a frontend working on the Mac, and was very impressed with image and sound quality -- although the two machines are connected via gigabit Ethernet, so bandwidth should not have been a problem!I still have lots of trouble … Continue reading Experiences with MythTV – part 2
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
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
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