Yearly Archives: 2010

I tested the antenna in my basement with the first of two digital converters (the second from Amazon still hasn't arrived even though it was ordered the same day) and an analog TV.  The antenna was able to pick up all the expected channels which antennaweb.org said we should get.  […]

Antenna up, first digital box tested

 in General  tagged antenna / Bravia / cable / Comcast / digital converter / digital TV / MythTV / nvidia / radio shack / set top box / Sony / Video (updated 5471 days ago)
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

 in General / TV  tagged antenna / Bravia / cable / Comcast / digital converter / digital TV / MythTV / radio shack / set top box / Sony
Today I released a complete rewrite of XNotesPlus, which I've renamed XNotesNG.  This version was properly architected (well, mostly) and implemented in Java.  Unlike other Java developers, I don't use IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans.  Instead, I rely on the tried and true tools of kernel developers:  cscope and vi.  […]

XNotesNG: XNotesPlus never dies, it just evolves

 in Fedora / General / GTK+ / java / Linux / SWT  tagged calendar manager / cscope / GTK+ / java / java plugin / jpf / Linux / plugin api / rpm / XNotesNG / xnotesplus (updated 5483 days ago)
Good news:  the wife okay’d the cable disconnect over lunch today.  I’m going to look for ways to hook up antenna’s to the TV’s through out the house.  I could hook it the incoming cable distribution box but I need that, at least for now, to keep the cable modem.  […]

The General’s Approval

 in General (updated 5483 days ago)
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

 in General / Personal / TV  tagged basic cable / cable box / cable boxes / cable provider / ClearQAM / colorado springs / Comcast / digital broadcast / digital channels / digital signal / digital signals / DirectTV / graphics / PBS (updated 5483 days ago)
I built an Ubuntu Server image this week because I needed to test an application we built at work would work without X.org and GTK+ installed.  Turns out it does.  That’s good. But in testing I got annoyed with the 80 character width of the console.  See, Ubuntu Server doesn’t […]

Mounting KVM images manually

 in General  tagged GTK+ / ubuntu (updated 5509 days ago)
I'm working with libvirtd/virt-manager/qemu at work.  I have a bunch of F11 systems installed and working just fine.  Today I tried one of the extra lab boxes, same OS config, but when I tried to use the virt-* commands I'd get an error: mjhammel(tty0)$ sudo virsh –connect qemu:///system error: failed […]

virsh/libvirt error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

 in Fedora / General / Linux / virtualization  tagged hypervisor / libvirtd / qemu / rpm / virsh / virtualization (updated 5580 days ago)