Monthly Archives: February 2009
mplayer and vdpau in portage
I was hoping to write a lengthy post about VDPAU support for MPlayer in the portage tree, but since my harddrive crashed this week and I’m still recovering from that, a small announcement will have to suffice for now. I … Continue reading
in retrospect: picking a mini-itx board
I’ve been having problems with my little Mini-ITX motherboard ever since I got it. It’s been much more of a handful than I expected, and nearly all the problems wouldn’t exist if I had gone with hardware that I was … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
"oh yah, that whole blu-ray thing"
Here’s a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while. I was at Hollywood Video the other night because I thought I’d stop in and see what there was to check out. I go in there now and again … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
gpnl redesign
I sat down this morning and jotted down some notes as to what I want GPNL to cover. One thing I realized is that one reason development has stalled is because my original goals of what it should do has … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
stats and direction
I briefly glanced over Donnie’s post on how to improve stuff in Gentoo, and while I can see how some ideas might stir up a bit of controversy, I kind of can agree and see things from a different angle. … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
next project
I’ve been thinking about what I want to work on next, since I’m actually finishing up a few things all at the same time. All within the past little while, I’ve finished up three big projects, or at least come … Continue reading
media frontend
One thing I’ve been thinking about more and more lately, is that Myth is way overkill for what I’m using it for — effectively, just MythVideo and that’s it. The only thing I use it for is a GUI interface … Continue reading
new mini-itx
I spent part of the weekend setting up my new Mini-ITX and getting Gentoo on there. After so much time, I’d forgotten what a tedious task it is to setup a binary distro — there are so many small things … Continue reading
