Doug Goldstein

Well this coming month I’m giving a presentation of MythTV at the local LUG, GatorLUG, meeting on June 21st. Since I haven’t had a working MythTV box for a few months and I’m the Gentoo MythTV maintainer, I figured now is a good time to build a new box. The issue has been I use a PPC box for my MythTV box and PPC doesn’t support TV out. I’ve recently purchased a new TV and it has PC and DVI inputs so it’s no longer an issue. However ivtv driver versions greater then 0.4.2 no longer work on PPC for me an several others. Hans doesn’t have an idea why but I have a feeling that it’s an endian-ness issue but I haven’t had a chance to dig into the code.

So far I’ve bought an Ahanix MCE601B case, eVGA Nvidia 7600GS passive cooled video card, an AMD Athlon64 3000+ AM2 Socket processor, and a MSI K9N SLI Platinum motherboard. Now I just need a SATA HD and some RAM and I’ll be all set. I will be putting my PVR-500 and PVR-250 into this box.

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So I went swimming with my roommate on Sunday. I tried to swim across the pool underwater but didn’t think I could make it so I wasn’t too considered about the other side. Well…. I made it to the other side… well my skull did. I managed to split my skull just above the hair line by about an inch. It bled nicely. After it finally stopped bleeding there’s a mark from the blood which I can’t get off right now. Why can’t I get it off? Because of the swelling and I can’t rub that hard. It looks like Harry Potter’s little scar so people have been making that joke.

I think I managed to get a slight concussion in the process because I got really tired about 15 min afterwards and I’ve been feeling short term memory loss (i.e. I met some people tonight and I couldn’t for the life of me remember anyone’s names… I’m usually good with that. Some of the people I had to ask twice.)

Either way, I’m a moron. In the words of Carlos Mencia, Dee Dee Dee!

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