Every couple of months, I get asked by management at work to produce a statistical report of what’s been going on in our team. How many times X occurred, how many times we had to Y etc.
It’s the least favourite part of my job.
The least favourite part of the least favourite part of my job […]
A couple of people have asked for the web resources I used to build my MythTV box. Here are the main ones:
MythTV on Ubuntu:
http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu.php
This is a complete how-to on how to get MythTV set up on Ubuntu from scratch. It’s genius.
Mr Parker’s also built a net-booting EPIA MythTV front-end - i.e. no hard drives, and […]
From the U. S. Food and Drug Administration’s Food Defect Action Levels for Chocolate and Chocolate Liquor:
Insect filth: (AOAC 965.38)
Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined OR
Any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments
Rodent filth: (AOAC 965.38)
Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 […]
I’ve been playing around with Trixbox (a VOIP PABX) and Ekiga (a VOIP soft phone). It worked (mostly), but Ekiga was taking forever to cause the other phone to ring. A little packet sniffing showed that Ekiga needs an SRV DNS record to help it find the SIP server. Since I’m running DNSMasq (a combined […]
From the FAQ for the comp.basilisk newsgroup:
1. What is the purpose of this newsgroup?
To provide a forum for discussion of basilisk (BLIT) images. Newsnet readers who prefer low traffic should read comp.basilisk.moderated, which carries only high-priority warnings and identifications of new forms.
2. Can I post binary files here?
If you are capable of asking this question […]
By default, MythTV creates odd filenames for the MPEGs it records. Garry Parker in his Ubuntu MythTV installation guide mentions a script called “mythlink” to create meaningful filenames (well, symbolic links) for your videos. Sadly, it’s b0rked in the current version of MythTV. I’ve hacked it about a bit, and come up with one that […]
I gave up on LinuxMCE. Seriously, I’ve tried the old Ubuntu 6.10 install (and had it fail to download packages), I’ve tried installing it from source (it tries to change directory to one that doesn’t exist), and I’ve tried the V1.1 Beta2 version (again, it fails downloading packages). Each time was on a fresh OS […]
Interpol notices are divided into six different classes, and colour-coded accordingly; there’s an explanation of what each means here:
Interpol Notices
From this page on Bovine Linguistics:
The Wisconsin-Holstein dialect appeared to have almost no grammar whatsoever. The article indicating negation (x’) is prepended to the word to be negated, and only negates that word. The verb rheh (to eat) is never used in context with meruuu (grass) - instead the words muum, xemmo, and hruunuuu are […]
From the Freakonomics Blog:
…and received roughly 200 resumes. Many of them are impressive. From an anthropological standpoint, nearly every single one is interesting, just to see the kind of skills and traits that people use as employment signals.
This is what I love about the Internet - every now and again, you run into someone who […]