My media server died this past week. Actually, just the hard drive. It was running Fedora 14 and needed to be updated anyway. This server hooks into my Sony Bravia TV via HDMI using an nVidia GeForce 9800GT. After installing Fedora 16 to a new drive, I loaded kmod-nvidia and […]
TV
Santa, in the form of my wife and daughter, really came through this year. Ry got me a Dell ST2010 HDMI monitor to use with my BeagleBoard. I think she saw the mammoth CRT TV I had hooked up to it and thought I deserved something more modern. I have […]
Happy Holiday: Lilliput and HDMI monitors, another WD archive
All the parts arrived by last Tuesday and I was able to boot the board using the validation images. I explored the u-boot environment and dug around the root file system to see what the BeagleBoard folks had put together. I booted the board using the serial console and connected […]
BeagleBox: reality sets in – boot issues
Most of the ordered parts have arrive, including the BeagleBoard. Man, is that a tiny board for so much capability! I can’t wait to bring it up. Still waiting on the USB hub and 1G SD card. I had to move a 25-in-1 USB-based card reader from my main development […]
BeagleBox: parts arriving
I've spent the past month preparing for and implementing a migration from Comcast cable TV to relying on both off-air HDTV and Internet video. The easy part was dumping Comcast, though they magically managed to NOT turn off billing because they had to send out a service tech (for no […]
From Cable TV to Internet TV – A Nerd’s Journey
The problem with getting rid of cable TV comes from the desire to continue to receive local off-air broadcasts. When the government mandated switch to digital broadcasts occurred, cable users ignored it because the cable companies would handle the situation for us. As long as we were plugged into the […]
Dumping cable: not as easy as it might seem
Here in the armpit of America known as Colorado Springs we have one cable provider, Comcast, at least in the area we live in. For the past four years we've had Extended Basic Cable service for about $50/month with no cable boxes required. Two xmas's ago our "big" projection TV […]
Comcast is going bye-bye
I use GNOME or XFce for my desktop environments at home and work. In both places I tend to listen to movies while I work. I have a large collection of DVDs and even a larger collection of VHS tapes. The former are mostly ripped to disk now but the […]
Using Xine with your MythTV videos: small screens while you ...
I found an interesting story online about a producer at CNN who got canned for blogging – mostly about stuff that didn’t pull the corporate line. It’s interesting to read from my point of view because it mirrors (to an extent) the pitiful way in which Dell treated its employees […]
Big media (along with corporate stupidity) must die, die, die.
If you’re interested in the whole copyright law issue that seems to be the backbone (or spineless) matter for the DMCA, you gotta watch this little 10 minutes video. It’s called “A Fair(y) Use Tale”. It explains it all. With a chuckle. Just don’t try to follow the scenes. Just […]
What is fair use (or how I laughed at the ...
I just installed the official FlashPlayer9 from Macromedia on my FC5 box at work. I then went to the Lost and Battestar Galactica sites, two sites that previously would not work correctly with the FlashPlayer9 beta releases. Well, they work flawlessly now. Kudos to the Adobe team for getting it […]
Flash Player 9: Official release (and it really works ...
So someone in this big ol' planet found my little blog entry about the Hanso Foundation image and linked to it on Technorati. I followed a thread about this and found that at least a few people thought I was crazy and had no clue what I was talking […]