swiss family robinson
Sometimes I turn on my TV just to have some background noise going on. This morning I settled on the Hallmark Channel. They were running some kind of show about… Read more »
Author Archives: steve
kde++
There are some things I don’t want to be doing at 11:13 at night when I’m tired and cranky and just want something to work. Calculating cron jobs is one… Read more »
tv tuners
I haven’t been able to sleep tonight, and one thing that’s been keeping me up tonight is that the AV on my myth recordings tonight are mysteriously out of sync…. Read more »
mplayer 1.0pre8 released
I saw a post on Planet Gentoo about a new release of MPlayer — after a year wait, no less. Actually, Luca is nice enough to provide us with development… Read more »
bend / dvd2mkv madness
You know you’ve been neglecting your pet project for a while when you try to run it and your system is missing one of the required libraries. Whoops. Just yesterday… Read more »
gwn tips and tricks archive
I’ve setup a very crude archive of the previous Tips and Tricks sections from the GWN, available here [Edit: Wayback Machine has it archived now]. There is a lot of… Read more »
nothing to do on a saturday afternoon
Me and my good buddy Jared were hanging out tonight for a little bit. First we went and saw Cars (because there’s nothing else to see that we haven’t both… Read more »
robin hood
I just watched a great flick — The Adventures of Robin Hood, a classic swashbuckling adventure from 1938! Gosh, that’s old. It does not get any more classic than this… Read more »
networking
My server has been going slightly slower than I’d like lately when it comes to serving up HTTP requests. Sometimes when I go into WordPress or its admin, it would… Read more »
mini update: ide woes
My RMA’d notebook harddrive that I was going to use in my Mini-ITX system came in the mail yesterday, and I’ve been fiddling around trying to get it working. So… Read more »