Monthly Archives: October 2006

mythtv comments

Thanks to all the comments I got on my last posts. I apologize they didn’t show up earlier, but my Spam Karma plugin flagged them wrong for some reason. Whoops. Hopefully that should be fixed, now. One thing I totally … Continue reading

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mythtv recant

Well, after calming down a bit after my last post (and Cardoe debunking most of my issues, thanks man), I’m a lot less ticked about the whole thing. Lately I’ve been really cranky about stuff just not working right. Go … Continue reading

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no more mythtv

I’m sick of MythTV, and I’m finally going to get rid of it once and for all. The thing that has really ticked me off is that in trying to archive my shows, I have to jump through so many … Continue reading

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ripping out nvidia …. again

I’ve been thinking about getting rid of the nvidia kernel graphics driver from my desktop at home for a while now.  I hardly ever play games, I’m certainly not an eye-candy whore in the least, and the only thing I … Continue reading

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mencoding malcolm

Malcolm in the Middle is one of my favorite TV shows evah. It’s great stuff. I watched about twelve episodes this weekend. It was great. Anyway, since only season one is on DVD, I’m making my own set just for … Continue reading

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new look, same ol feeds

In case you haven’t noticed, I made a few CSS changes to Planet Larry’s website the other day. It looks slightly less ugly now. I also added a default avatar for everyone who hasn’t sent one in, slackers. I think … Continue reading

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moved and moving

Well, after hosting my website for about ten months now at home on my crappy comcast connection, I’ve finally set it up on a real hosting platform.  A friend of mine recommended signing up with grokthis.net, which I did, and … Continue reading

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happy birthday, dick tracy

Wow, Dick Tracy has been around for 75 years. That’s freaking incredible. The comic strip has always been one of my top favorites. I have five Dick Tracy books sitting in my closet. Two of them are collections of best … Continue reading

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october fun

The weather is really starting to change here in the great state of Utah.  It’s overcast, it’s slightly cold, it’s raining and it’s dark.  I absolutely live for this kind of weather. Plus we have Halloween coming up soon which … Continue reading

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popular browsers and security bugs

There’s been some posts lately in the media about security bugs in Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, and what all the numbers mean when it comes to who has more or how many are critically severe. I thought I’d … Continue reading

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