• Archive for May, 2005

    Odd mythtv behaviour

    by  • 5/8/2005 • geek • 2 Comments

    For some reason, my MythTV setup has been recording things at the wrong times; Show X plays at 11:00pm, shows up in the schedule grid at 11:00pm, and somehow the hour before that gets recorded instead. In the “recorded programs” display it claims the Show X was recorded, but it lies. It’s recording an hour [...]

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    Gentoo maintenance tricks

    by  • 5/5/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    Found an excellent pointer to a utility that I didn’t know existed, and that is worth knowing about. It’s called “dispatch-conf” and it’s a whole lot better than the most evil of evils “etc-update” which has caused me grief before. Basically, you run “emerge rcs” to grab the revision control bits you’ll need, and create [...]

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    DVDs from foreign lands

    by  • 5/2/2005 • movies • 0 Comments

    FINALLY Virgin Music had copies of Delicatessen in stock today. They also apparently had a big restocking in the Criterion Collection discs. It was all I could do to leave the store without spending a million dollars and wiping out my “must buy” list of discs. Delicatessen has been on my list for a long [...]

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