Author archives: Mike

I discovered a bug in the released Nevow that I am using for the trigger configuration pages in Cinemon. The bug is fairly simple, when a user returns to a page (loading it from their browser's cache), the server has not rendered the page for this loading. Because Nevow constructs the client connection object during ...

Dave was mentioning that he's getting into the cable-modem running business after dinner (in turn after UU). So of course I blathered on and on about Cinemon.

And somewhere in the middle of blathering it hit me "this is a really good product". Sure, it's a tiny niche application. Sure, there are things that could ...

(Tim restored the blog from backup (Thanks Tim) and I've just manually copied over the last 3 posts.)

Past two days have been uneventful. I work all day and then pound on the stupid hardware configuration trying to get the nVidia card to work or the (now karked) PVR configuration restored. I wake up early ...

Apparently the "moderate trackbacks" setting in CoreBlog doesn't do anything. I just turned on the trackback history box and discovered hundreds of trackback spams have been added. So, I started plowing through the articles deleting the trackbacks...

But they didn't disappear from the recent trackback listing. So I re-indexed the whole blog. And they still ...

First the good news: I just squeaked through by the hair of my teeth to defeat grams at pool. I messed up twice trying to snooker her, winding up instead giving her perfect 2 or 3 foot shots to win the game. But the second time (the last game of the day) she horribly miss-shot, ...

The visit with Shiva and Shademan was wonderful. Their new place is quite nice, backing onto one (1/2 block) park, with a much larger park about a 3 minute walk away. Good food, good conversations, good friends. I even picked up the new weights (barbells) I've been needing to buy for the last year or ...

I've been needing to put together a personal business card for a good long while. Just something I can hand out when people want to know who I am for personal, rather than VexTech or Cinemon reasons. My original plan was to go for just "vrplumber.com" in black on white, but somewhere along the way ...

Okay, got the capture card working again. One of these days I guess I should figure out what's changed between the 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 kernels that's messing up. I've tried copying the .config over any number of times, so I'm guessing something changed in the code that either requires a new setting/option/module, or something was ...

The bulk of the software about which I care has been rebuilt now. About the only thing that's still both major and missing is the MythTV support for the ATI TV Wonder Pro. Weird thing is that I keep reading about how this card doesn't work properly, but with the bytesex.org patches it's been working ...

As of just this moment I've managed to load X11 (and KDE, and Mozilla) on the new Linux instance. I've also fixed the problem with the delay during BIOS startup (it was the lack of a floppy that caused the problem, I'd detached it so I could add the SATA drive to the drive-cage and ...