Spurred on by the successes of a couple of guys at work, I've been going through the process of setting up a Linux-based PVR.I've had a tuner card for some time, but my first attempts at getting it to work with MythTV under Gentoo a couple of years ago were less than successful. The final prompter … Continue reading MythTV
Santa came to Nicholas' day-care centre today. All the Junior Kindy kids were very excited about Santa being there -- until it was their turn to sit with him! Nicholas' reaction was (I have to say, even though it's terrible to do so) hilarious... He was joyously watching the other kids getting their presents, but when his name … Continue reading Nicholas’ visit from Santa
I'm sure you've heard people say that they were never concerned about "whatever" until it touched their life in some way. Our family had a first-hand reminder of that last night -- my mum was mugged last night on her way home from work. I'm sure she would have liked a less violent way to get her … Continue reading Safety?
I had a funny problem with my Cacti installation the other day -- all the graphs were missing the last hour. The system was doing updates correctly, but new data was being entered onto the graph at "T-minus-one-hour".The first thing I thought of was a problem caused by daylight savings (the state of Queensland doesn't observe … Continue reading Timezone in PHP
Susan and I celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary yesterday. Yay for us!
For ages I've toyed with running Linux on the ex-lease Sony Vaio I've got. When I first picked it up, Centrino was a dirty word as far as Linux was concerned, so it's been a Windows box all along. But now that the lease is over and it's all mine, I decided to take the plunge.The announcement … Continue reading Edgy comes to visit
Susan bought a new desk the other day, one she'd had her eye on for quite a while. She bought it from one of those modern flat-pack furniture shops (no, not the Swedish one) and paid a tidy sum for it. To say we're disappointed with the result is a mild understatement -- but the whole experience … Continue reading How much should you have to pay for quality?
My TOE last week showed clear -- no PFO! So now the guessing-game continues as to what (if anything specific) causes me to have these heart issues. While it's a bit tedious that the testing has to go on, it is good to know I don't have a hole in my heart!
I saw the cardiologist during the week. While the outlook is far from grim, there is a chance that I have one of the "hole-in-the-heart" conditions. I'm to have a test next week called a transoesophageal echocardiogram or TOE (TEE for American readers, since oesophagus starts with 'e' up there).A TOE involves me swallowing an ultrasound transducer … Continue reading Health update
The GCC/glibc update on the desktop system did eventually finish. At each point it had stopped, I noted what it failed on so I could go back later. Once I fixed the dependency that was causing everything to fail, I could re-emerge those packages that failed first time around.In case you're curious, the reason for the failure … Continue reading Gentoo Games, part two
