So I thought that Firefly / mt-daapd was working under Jaunty 9.04 but I was wrong. It does in fact stream remote .mp3s but it doesn’t transcode the FLAC. Boo. Apparently it’s usual for things to break when they’re upgraded, but it worked fine on the old Dell PIII which makes me [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 21, 2009
More Great Coffee Shops in New York
So if you live in NYC and you’re looking for a map of the best coffee shops all over Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens then look no further than this blog and the associated map “On the Road to Epiphany” which we assume to mean the epiphany one has when drinking great coffee, or wine, or [...]
May 20, 2009
Linux is a temperamental mistress
There is not doubt that you get out of MythTV what you put into it. I spent a good day, post system build, just getting things going. I upgraded to the 180.51 stable NVIDIA driver for the 9400 GT card that I have, at first it presented some problems, but I used Synaptic upgrade manager [...]
May 14, 2009
Awesome awesomeness
So things have been busy but going pretty well, in comparison to the Winter at least. I’m having another go at MythBuntu 8.04 LTS on the old PIII as the Myth Back-End. I built our Front-End this afternon. It’s a E5200 Core Duo chip, the motherboard is based on Intel’s 4100 chipset and is made [...]
