Thinking …

If I get the bug to build a new MythBox. The Asus M2A-VM motherboard coupled with the 45 Watt AMD Athlon X2 BE2350 would make a nice low-power combo. This report shows total system power of 59 W idle, and 87 W max. Not shabby considering the 2.8Ghz P4 system serving this very web [...]

MythTV unresponsive/lags with remote

Currently chasing this nagging issue: MythTV responds almost instantly when using the keyboard, but it lags (at best) when pressing a button on the remote. And it’s more than a lag, it actually seams to queue several button presses and then respond to each command all at once. Incidentally, this was never a problem prior to [...]

pchdtv 5500 tuner card setup

The pcHDTV 5500 tv tuner capture card allows Linux users the ability to record television broadcasts using an antenna or from cable. Using MythTV the setup is fairly straight forward, at least, it should have been…

Once it is installed, the first thing is to get the listing service setup. Seams simple enough with not-for-profit Schedules Direct [...]

Apple knows if your iPhone was submerged

Shine a flash light down the bottom of headphone jack of your iPhone (and probably iPods too), and what do you see? Should be a nice white color behind a plastic film.

There’s no faster way to wreck that fancy gadget than dropping it in your beer (or the toilet afterward) and Apple is none to [...]

Macbook Pro keyboard randomly stops working

Update 3:  I’ll cut to the chase — this update has fixed the problem for me. It’s been several weeks since the keyboard stopped responding.

Over Thanksgiving week, my new Apple Macbook Pro showed up. While it was a refurbished model, it’s the latest generation (model 3,1; aka Santa Rosa) with the 15″ screen using [...]

I couldn’t hold out …

… and I bought an iPhone. It’s like crack. And here I sit in a meeting at work making my first blog post with it …Too bad the visual editor in wordpress does’nt work in the [...]

Web server maintenance mode — return a 503 error

This piddly little site runs off a machine that has no hot-standby to take over when it is off-line for maintenance. However I do like to make sure that something answers in its place and for this reason I cut over the web traffic to my office Mac so it can spit out a generic “down [...]

Upgrade FC6 to FC7

I’ve just completed upgrading Fedora Core 6 to version 7. This is the first time I’ve performed an actual in place upgrade without doing a completely fresh install. I had my doubts, but they turned out to be ill founded.

I’m happy to report that upgrading worked just fine. I was left with a hand [...]

ob_gzhandler conflicts with zlib in WordPress — updated

A while back, I posted a rather foolish way to fix the following error message that WordPress likes to cause on my system:

[Sun Jul 01 02:52:49 2007] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] PHP Warning: ob_start() [<a href='ref.outcontrol'>ref.outcontrol</a>]: output handler ‘ob_gzhandler’ conflicts with ‘zlib output compression’ in /home/web/html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 419

Well, the real problem is that WordPress is [...]

Mac OS X SFTP/SCP client search

Here’s the deal — I’ve got something like 6600 (13 gigs) of digital photos that I’ve taken over the years. These are wonderfully organized in a directory structure with 177 folders (i.e. an average of 37 files per folder). I say all of this because I don’t think there is any part of this that is [...]