movies on demand
Continuing in my slow re-examination of playing with Comcast’s DVR offerings, something else is coming back to me — I really like their On Demand selection. In fact, it’s actually… Read more »
Author Archives: steve
lack, amount and willingness of transparency
There’s one other issue that seems to be a problem that users are talking about on the forums, and that’s a lack of transparency. I guess the belief is that… Read more »
communication issues
I really don’t like commenting on things going on in that relate to Gentoo internally, and I won’t, but I think I will touch upon one subject that I see… Read more »
mplayer-resume-1.5
A bug in MythVideo inspired me to work on fixing mplayer-resume tonight, so that it can properly handle movies with filenames. I don’t know why I didn’t think about this… Read more »
comcast cable tv upgrade, part two
Comcast came out on Friday morning and installed my upgraded cable connection. Strictly speaking, I have no idea which tier I’m actually on right now. I know it’s at least… Read more »
new monitor
I got a new monitor at work today. It’s a Samsung 226BW, and it is very nice. I actually like the widescreen monitors. The great thing about them is you… Read more »
comcast cable tv upgrade
So, I finally made an impulsive move and called up Comcast to get an expanded cable TV package. I got an ad in the mail yesterday (addressed specifically to me,… Read more »
region-free dvd drives
Following up on an earlier post about region-free dvd players, I happened to have a stroke of luck — I found a DVD-RW drive that is region free. I happened… Read more »
switching aspect ratio on the fly
I was tinkering with my MPlayer configuration for LIRC tonight to figure out a small OSD annoyance, when I found this interesting thing that I always thought would be nice. … Read more »
george winston in concert
My best Christmas gift this year (aside from my Frosted Flakes pajamas) was that my older sister took me to go see George Winston in concert while I was visiting… Read more »