So I caved and bought a Flickr Pro account. Basically because I can’t be bothered to go through the hassle of processing the backlog, and because it’s always nice to have offsite backups. Images will be gradually uploaded, labelled, tagged, geotagged, etc. etc. You’ll find them all somewhere in here eventually.
Month: January 2007
Six years
That’s how long I’ve been fiddling with this blog. Blimey. Which means this crufty old backend code is six years old. *How* in need of a rewrite? Hell, the design’s from 2002…
Blast!/Spring clean
Dammit. Having made all my wonderful fixes and upgrades to the mythbox, the “new” fan proves itself not up to the job. So now I have a desk fan pointing into the open case on my floor whenever I need to use it. Not very good, is it? Also, whilst adding a new table to… Continue reading Blast!/Spring clean
Mythtv upgrades
It’s about the only thing I *have* done during this week of supposedly doing things and playing games…I’ve got such a stupid cough I can’t even play games! But – some parts arrived today so new to the mythbox:Replaced whining fan with even older, but working fan. Added third tuner card (another Hauppauge Nova-T DVB… Continue reading Mythtv upgrades
Mythtv: no EIT data (program table crashed)
An attempt to save somebody, somewhere, some time if they run into the same problem as me. SYMPTOMS: No guide data at all, for no good reason. System status says “no guide data – is mythfilldatabase running?”. If you stop the backend then run mythbackend from a terminal (I did it with options “-v eit”… Continue reading Mythtv: no EIT data (program table crashed)