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mythtv slow menu response
If you’re experiencing delays navigating mythtv menus, check this out.
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5893
This fix will likely be helpful to me. I plan to roll this into my 0.21.svn20080706 at home as soon as I get time.
today’s ringtone
It occurred to me that not only is Snapshot by The Art of Noise a cool track, it’s almost like it was made to be a ringtone - released in 1984, decades before downloadable ringtone mania. IMO the first 30 seconds or so work the best, but if your phone allows using the whole [...]
tree removal
Soreness continues apace. We removed 5 small trees Saturday using a rented electric chainsaw. Maybe gas powered would have required less work on my part, not sure. A few of the trees were against the house and interfering with gutters and power lines, along with being generally unmaintainable without a cherry picker [...]
what a difference six months makes
Wagoner defends GM’s reliance on SUVs.
In response to analysts’ concerns about GM’s dwindling liquidity in light of the latest slide in demand for its most profitable vehicles and the jump in raw material costs, Wagoner responded that “under any scenario we see, we’re good until the end of the year.”
What an incredible country we live [...]
women and free software
Biella,
The article is so drastically tilted, I almost have to believe it’s a joke; seriously, is this copied from The Onion?
I tend to think that treating anyone as a member of a protected class in order to ensure their participation is more divisive than any difference a few members of the group might perceive. In [...]
the needs of the one
Madcoder rants about the untrusted SSL certificate handling in Firefox 3, and suggests this regarding his own preferred implementation:
It’s enough for 99.9% of the users.
Isn’t that exactly the kind of uninformed pronouncement that gets us a lot of bad user interface design in the first place?
on time-based releases
Arstechnica has some commentary on why time-based releases aren’t the best way to get your quality on.
Good, fast, cheap - pick two.
casting Motoko
According to the tubes, Dreamworks will be producing a live-action version of Ghost in the Shell. While there’s great fun to be had debating the pros and cons thereof, I’m going to stick to the usual casting speculation game.
My first pick for Motoko Kusanagi is Jodie Foster. She has the acting chops to [...]
on poor BD sales
There’s a report that BD isn’t selling well, specifically the players required to view the discs. From my perspective, a BD player is still a ways off. There are too many obstacles to adoption at this point:
1. Price. Manufacturers, make your money on the movies as always (DVDs have a huge markup, BD even more [...]