I mentioned to both Aris and CC about not being able to get GRUB going, but as it turns out, OpenSUSE had overwritten my 1st 9.04 Xubuntu configuration’s GRUB with it’s own (I believe 1.5) but I’d installed OpenSUSE on a secondary 1.0 TB drive…. when I reformatted that 1.0 TB drive from within a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘MythTV’
July 2, 2009
WWDC no 802.11n in on the 3G S iPhone!? Drat!
So, with the new iPhone 3.x OS you will not be purchasing an 802.11N enabled wireless chipset. Apparently the new 3G S model does support 4G HSDPA but not 5 GHz 802.11N wireless with the new lower powered Broadcom BCM4325. Apparently the 3G S model is a bit snappier. When is the 802.11n iPod [...]
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 [...]
April 7, 2009
My goodness, that’s good coffee!
I’ve been drinking the Stumptown Hairbender blend, usually as a “tall black” AKA an Americano (with nearly equal amounts espresso to water) at Sweet Leaf down the street. It’s really good. Basically, it trumps most all the other coffee I’ve had in this city, which until lately has been chock full of not very good [...]
