Well, my PVR box is set up. It’s running Mythdora 4, with some customisations: 1. **Patched, older kernel** – the stock Fedora Core 6 2.6.18 kernel with the GRML kernel patches (from [GRML's Mercurial VCS](http://hg.grml.org/grml-kernel/archive/3abf902cffd4.tar.bz2) in the /2.6.18 patches; you want 400?_net-r8169*.patch) 2. **HVR3000 driver modules** – Steve Toth’s HVR3000 driver kit, from [LinuxTV.org's Mercurial [...]
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I’ve just spent three frickin’ hours up a ladder. Two in reasonable light, one in near pitch darkness. What was I doing? Rewiring the satellite dish. I’m covered in various lacerations from all manner of prickly, sharp, pointy objects (mostly plants) and I have no thumbprint left on my right thumb, courtesy of a pair [...]
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Once again, one of my great plans has been foiled. By a rodent. For the past nine years, the house has been fitted with a satellite receiver of some make or description. First it was a Sky analogue system on the ASTRA-1 “19.2 East” constellation, then a SkyDigital system on the ASTRA-2 “28.2 East” constellation. [...]
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Posted in General rambling on Aug 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Yep, it’s /New Theme Time/. I was getting bored of the default WP theme, so I’ve replaced it with ["Gray Gets Green 1.0" by Fred Banuelos](http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/987/gray-gets-green-10/). I’ve also upgraded to WordPress 2.2 (about time too) and [PHP Markdown Extra](http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/) 1.1.4. More toys, yay. Yes, the Castlecore server fell over again today. I did an Apache/PHP [...]
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