Category Archives: Technology
Finally A DVR
As of yesterday, we finally have a DVR in the house. Unfortunately, it’s nothing as configurable and flexible as the MythTV box that I was trying to build not so long back.No, this is the very pedestrian, low-intelligence Philips DVDR7300H. … Continue reading
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Ruby/Finance 0.2.2 released
The overdue task of maintenance on my code base continues. Some time last October, Yahoo made changes to its finance site, which broke the currency conversion module of my Ruby/Finance library. I’ve finally got around to fixing this and the … Continue reading
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European Lynx (no, not the animal)
After several years of occasional bidding, I finally managed to win an eBay auction for a rare complete copy of the Lemmings cartridge for my old Atari Lynx handheld console. The cartridge itself pops up from time to time, but … Continue reading
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Sweet Surrender
The new DVD player for the MythTV box turned up on Friday… and turned out to exhibit the same problem: blinking lights, but no action. After disconnecting the SATA cable and the power cable a hundred times, swapping those cables … Continue reading
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Hardware Curse
The new drive for the MythTV box arrived today and works! Well, let’s not be hasty; the BIOS recognises it. I won’t know whether it truly works until I actually try to put an operating system on it. To that … Continue reading