Month: September 2006

I hate those words. Installed 0.20 last night, and had to deal with many segfault errors. Managed to get most of them fixed, and the new packages have XvMC compiled in (yay), which seemingly works (double yay!). But… The big draw for 0.20, for me at least, was MythArchive. Which segfaults. Boo, hiss. Still, DivX… Continue reading Segmentation fault

So instead of spending all day hunched over a keyboard, yesterday a large number of people from work spent the day hunched over garden spades. Why? We had a “corporate community day”, which, translated, means we spent the day doing manual labour for a number of deserving and underfunded projects. My group spent the day… Continue reading Out and about

So, with the new graphics card in place and seemingly running well (although I haven’t really given it a thorough workout yet), this problem is no more. At least the desktop PC part isn’t. I *also* think I might have more-or-less got the mythbox up and running. Some lingering problems with vga (the Sony tv… Continue reading Goggle (not a typo), Black tower

Remember that new PC I was building? Well, it didn’t work. It seemed like the video card was faulty, so I sent that back. Ebuyer apparently tested it, and found it faulty, so they’ve sent me a replacement. Tonight, I’ll see if it works…! Also, some theiving little chavs nicked my laptop bag. Bastages. Luckily,… Continue reading Fingers crossed