Stewart has a new toy for his MySQL User Conference presentation, which is probably for the best as I fully intend to ask why MySQL replication is so unreliable, why Innodb hot backup appears to hate me, and lots of other biting questions if I think of them. It does make me wonder what other…
On freely available guide data
One of the flaws with Microsoft’s Media Center flavour of Windows XP when it was released in Australia, was that it suffered from the same inherent flaw as every other PVR option in Australia. No guide data. It really says something about Australia’s television networks that they don’t want to help people with even vaguely…
clusterssh
For reasons which might be fairly obvious, I’ve been doing a lot of repetitive sshing to machines recently (think executing the same upgrade on four mail servers for instance). I pondered aloud in the cube the possibility of an application which would give me a dialog to type in, and then wack that text into…
MythTV frontend on an xbox
Surprisingly easy. Xebian, and pre-compiled packages make me smile. Time spent building the whole thing — about an hour. Children now quiet after Australian DVD player broke in the US — two.
Off line versions of the color images from the book
There are now off line versions of the color images available. There is a zip version and a tarball version.
Apparently I regulate
Someone in the office complimented me on “regulating” today. It turns out that’s crazy American speak for laying down the law.
A simple tutorial on creating firefox extensions
An interesting tutorial on creating Firefox extensions. Nice.
Compiling MythTV 0.19 for Ubuntu Dapper
I’ve been finding that MythTV is really unreliable after dist-upgrading from Breezy to Dapper. In fact, it’s been crashing six or seven times a day, which has been really annoying. I figured I though therefore bight the bullet and upgrade to the latest stable version of MythTV. I was previously running a SVN snapshot because…
Wanted: a rear wheel bike computer
Catherine picked up a fluid based resistance trainer for her bike today. Because the front wheel doesn’t move when she rides on this thing, she also needs a bike computer which can be mounted on the rear wheel. Suggestions?
Don’t try getting Delonghi blender parts in the US
I’ve given up after calling four places. All I want is a blade for my Delonghi blender, and it seems that no one in this country sells them. When I asked the people I called for a suggestion of someone who might sell the part, they were quite confused. I suspect I’ll be off to…