|
||
|
thunderkeys.net
Sun, Feb 25 2007
Finally, we get some real, honest-to-god snow. It started out as a 'wintery mix' but now it's just pure big-flake goodness, great for packing too. Weatherman was saying earlier we could get 3-6" before it's said and done... I took a few pictures already. Tue, Feb 20 2007
And the CEO spake, declaring "from this day forward, thou shalt no longer call The Company 'Mitretek', but rather 'Noblis'." And the New Logo Schwag came down upon the employees, and it was good. Mon, Feb 12 2007
So went furniture shopping this weekend and ordered a new sectional and bedroom set. It should be here in about a month. We're psyched, especially about the bedroom set. We've been looking for a set that we both like, comes in a King size and isn't discontinued for over 5 years. And the couch has recliners and cupholders ... hello lazy Sunday afternoons. Sat, Feb 10 2007
Ran across this at xkcd.com. It made me laugh (the whole set of comics is pretty darn funny, in fact). 
Fri, Feb 09 2007
If it's not one thing, it's another. This morning we awoke to find we had no hot water. Looks like the plumber is about to get another check.
Update: $200 to replace the heating elements. We have hot water, Houston.
Thu, Feb 08 2007
The busted outdoor spigot was fixed this morning by Woodbridge Plumbing to the tune of $94. Not too shabby.
We also discovered today that it's likely the prior homeowners drywalled over the front hosebib shutoff valves when finish the basement. Great.
Drywall, meet Mr. Drywall saw.
Wed, Feb 07 2007
So we got a bit of snow last night... but most of it melted by this afternooon. We got home to find a message letting us know that one of our outside spigots was leaking. For the life of me, I can't find a shutoff valve to it in the house. So we'll just have to shut off the well pump and wait until morning to call a plumber. In the meantime, the ice caused by it looked pretty cool.
Finally got my HDTV Myth box built and up and running. It's purty, and mythcommflag makes me happy. Some pictures are here. The most difficult part was finding a 1080i modeline that work with my TV. Eventually, a stock one from the nVidia mode pool worked out the best (1920x1080_120i, using the 8776 drivers). The overscan was compensated for with the following values in the mythtv settings: +----------------------+-----------+ | value | data | +----------------------+-----------+ | GuiWidth | 1750 | | GuiHeight | 976 | | GuiOffsetX | 90 | | GuiOffsetY | 34 | | GuiSizeForTV | 0 | | GuiVidModeResolution | 1920x1080 | +----------------------+-----------+I also set it up so that DVDs are played back at 720x480, as it looks way too jaggy at 1920x1080i.
Specifications (Updated 2/7/07):
Configuration: Sun, Feb 04 2007
By default, AAC support is disabled in the Debian mythmusic package. There used to be a libmp4ff distributed with the libfaad* packages, but upstream's makefile no longer installs it so it looks like it got dropped out of the debs. To get AAC support working again, I had to rebuild the faad2 source package with the following patch to debian/rules (download):
--- rules.orig 2007-02-03 18:52:28.000000000 -0500
+++ rules 2007-02-03 17:07:39.000000000 -0500
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@
dh_installdirs
$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/${version}
+ cp common/mp4ff/.libs/libmp4ff.a $(CURDIR)/debian/${version}/usr/lib
+ cp common/mp4ff/libmp4ff.la $(CURDIR)/debian/${version}/usr/lib
+ cp common/mp4ff/mp4ff.h $(CURDIR)/debian/${version}/usr/include
+ cp common/mp4ff/mp4ff_int_types.h $(CURDIR)/debian/${version}/usr/include
rm debian/${version}/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.a
rm debian/${version}/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.la
Update 2/4/07: I've filed Debian Bug report #409648 on this.
So I had to do a bit of tweaking in the MythTV themes I've been using to account for overscan (the guide and program info, etc were getting cut off a bit). I updated the following files in /usr/share/mythtv/themes: 
|
||
