Month: November 2006

Being a geek on the bus

I am on one of the late buses and I this time I am not the only person. I am being a geek using my mac to dial out on my treo :). I was having some issues getting this to work recently to did what all palm users do to solve these kinds of problems I made sure i was backup, did a hard reset and restore and now everything is working. Oops better go I am almost at west falls church metro.

Disturbing Video

This has to be one of the most disturbing things I have watched in long time.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/16/ucla_taser_incident/

I don’t understand why universities in the US maintain their own security services, especially when you see the abuses that can happen.

Continueing mythtv quest.

I have given up on trying to get my via epia box to run as a mythtv frontend server instead I downloaded https://www.goof.com/~mmead/MythFrontend-MacOSXUniversal-0.20-fixes-20061001.dmg.bz2. Now I can watch TV recorded on either of my Mac laptops which give me the ability to watch something other than desperate housewifes. My 12 inch powerbook is probably at the speed limit for watching a stream over an 802.11g wireless connection, but it works as long as the mythtv application is in the foreground and the power is plugged in. I am still very temped to get a series 3 tivo so I can move my lifetime subscription to a newer platform than my old series 1. I wonder what the ebay price on a lifetime series 1 will be after the ability to do a transfer expires at the end of the year.

Uk going to far

This might be one of the reasons that the UK is being called the nany state. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/14/criminal_justice/
I will have to see if I can find a copy of the queens speach where she says ‘porn’ 🙂