Monthly Archives: September 2008
gentoo's growth
DistroWatch has yet another “the sky is falling” post about Gentoo, and, going against habit, I’m going to comment on the situation in general. I see a panicked argument on the threads every now and then that Gentoo is dying … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
planetlarry.org
I don’t know about anyone else, but everytime I want to go Planet Larry, I still type in planetlarry.org, even though I ditched the domain a few months ago. Well, I got tired of it not working, so I re-registered … Continue reading
Filed under Planet Larry
pimp my mythvideo: another navigation patch
I’ve been working on a bug all night I noticed the other day that really annoys me in Myth, and I stayed up poking at the code trying to find a way around it. Actually, it’s a little weird how … Continue reading
salt flats, utah
Last Saturday, my friend Jason and I made another trek to the Salt Flats in northwest Utah. It’s actually right on the border to Nevada, about 2 minutes away. The Salt Flats is an incredible place — there is just … Continue reading
Filed under General
adventures in wifi: openwrt wireless bridge
Tonight, I managed to get one item off my wishlist done that I’ve wanted to accomplish for a very long time — I managed to switch my mythfrontend setup from a wired connection to a wireless one. I have had … Continue reading
blackberry pearl flip
I caught the news this morning via Engadget that Blackberry is coming out with a new phone pretty soon, the Blackberry Pearl 8220. What makes it cool is that it’s their first flip phone, yay! I’m not big into cell … Continue reading
bend, drip, mythvideo
Here’s something I haven’t written about in a long time — bend, my custom written CLI PHP5 scripts to rip and encode TV shows. I actually rewrote the entire thing over Labor Day weekend. What’s amazing is it took so … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Gentoo, Multimedia
