Category Archives: Technology
New version of MythTV grabber
Another thing that kept me busy over the last few days was enhancing, tv_grab_nl_upc, my program for fetching television guide data for UPC’s digital cable network in The Netherlands and outputting the results in XMLTV format. Of all the stuff … Continue reading
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Christmas specials
I noticed today that our MythTV box was going to fail to record the Christmas special of The Real Hustle. Why? Because the programme’s name was The Real Hustle Christmas and we had instructed the machine to record only The … Continue reading
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Dr. Dobbs
I noticed only today that the article I wrote about Ruby/Amazon for Dr. Dobbs Journal is on-line, and probably has been for a year or more. That’s nice to see. That’s one thing I do lament about my career as … Continue reading
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A T60 It Is
Whilst in the US, I took receipt of the new laptop that I’d had sent to Sarah’s folks’ address. It’s an IBM Thinkpad T60, following on from my last laptop, a T43. I’ve been a Thinkpad user for the last … Continue reading
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UPC: Underpowered Products Continue
Having just about finished configuring our home-brew PVR/DVR, I was, of course, interested to see an announcement from UPC that they will soon be offering their own PVR/set-top box in one. On the face of it, this might be reason … Continue reading
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