Seventeen years ago, when I was much younger but still very good looking, I came home from a visit to the animal shelter with a surprise. My soon to be wife wanted to know why there was a lump in my jean jacket making a faint meyowing sound. It was a little black kitten that […]
Ok. A lot of people have asked me about when I was going to write something to take advantage of my Tivo from my Linux box. Some have even called it a “BashPodder for Tivo”. While I haven’t quite gone that far yet, I have written a script to make getting things off of my […]
I have been asked by a few different people now about using my Tivo with Linux and with the n800. Even though I have not had my Tivo for very long, I thought I would take a stab at writing a document about how I use them anyhow. The result is at http://lincgeek.org/linc/docs/tivo/. Take a […]
I know there has been a lot of talk lately about MythTV by the rest of the gang. And I’ll tell you, it sounds like a fantastic thing to play with. Unfortunately, I just don’t currently have the resources, time or financially, to pursue it right now. The problem with that is that I really […]
Here we go again.. Another backup horror story to remind you all to do your backups. Now, you would think that as many times as I have revisited this topic, that *I* would be backup master and that I would never have an incident where I couldn’t retrieve something in a catastrophe. Well, that simply […]
I have done a few Ubuntu release upgrades in the house now, so I figured I’d comment a little bit about them and the new Ubuntu 8.04 in general… The first upgrade was my laptop. This was an upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 and everything went really smooth. Well, I should say it went smooth, […]
Most of you know I work in Philadelphia. Most of you think I live there too, but this is not the case. I actually live 35 miles away in Downingtown, PA. Downigtown is nice and quiet and rural without being too far away from any modern convenience. Well, I shouldn’t say that because I still […]
Isn’t it amazing the level of customer service you get these days? Here’s a no brainer: Computer geeks get irritated when they do not receive the internet access they are paying for. They get even more frustrated when your service policy is “it’s not my problem”. Thus has continually been my experience with comcast. Don’t […]
I have been checking out those digital photo frames for some time now. Thinking that I really ought to have one. The problem is that I am so cheap. I just can’t seem to force myself to put out around $70 for a wallet sized photo frame. As long as I have been waiting for […]
I have been pretty sick since last night, which is probably why I have the time to post here today 🙂 I seem to have some kind of stomach bug right now which is keeping me in close proximity to my bathroom. But, inbetween bathroom breaks, I have been able to check my email at […]