I just pulled into the parking lot where I take my piano lessons, and in place of the closed CompUSA, there is a MicroCenter! I don’t know that it’s open yet because I don’t have time to go in before my lesson, but I can say that it’ll be much easier for me to [...]

In the process of moving and wondering what’s going to happen to my servers, I’m seriously considering going with a Virtual Private Server. I want something with FreeBSD 6 (I’ve really fallen in love with FreeBSD’s easy management, and I can just copy my configs over ), and something with a decent [...]

Video with hardware acceleration works. I can stream live TV (not HD) from the backend, and I could get HD if my antenna would pick it up (MythTV sees the channels, I just don’t have a strong enough signal to lock onto). I can also play DVDs in full screen mode (and the [...]

School is now over, and between bouts of playing Super Paper Mario on my Wii, I’m working on the MythTV box. Debian’s Xorg packages are still completed fubared, but there’s enough there to work with. I’ve got the DRI and DRM modules compiled for my kernel from the git sources following the directions [...]

Last night, I needed to use Microsoft Project for school work, and I started up Parallels. I had just updated it the night before to the version which has coherence in it. Coherence is awesome. I can have Windows windows floating around with my OS X windows, and see my OS X [...]