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Tonight we ate at AppleBee’s. It was yummy. It will be yummy tomorrow too (mmm … leftovers). Afterwords we went light-seeing (kinda like site-seeing, only we more or less knew where we were and it involved lights). It was decided that Golfview Drive in River Falls has some very nice lights (which of course adorn some rather nice and $$$$$$ houses). There were firetrucks at Rodli. We don’t know why. Perhaps something in the freezer got old enough to finally become self-aware and committed suicide by throwing itself on the grill?

There are lots of updates waiting for the MythTV box. One of them is the kernel. I don’t think I’ll do it yet ‘cuz I know it will break things and I just don’t feel like fixing them right now. Plus, it would probably decrease the wife-approval-factor.

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Upgraded mythtv system to Fedora Core 6 today. It wasn’t too bad. Had some issues to fix after install but it’s up and running … have tested both recording and playback. Experimented a bit with MythDora but elected not to use it since I was rather concerned about retaining my recording data. It does look like a pretty reasonable tool for getting a “fresh start” up and going.
Tried cloning the OS drive before upgrading to see if I could get it onto an 80GB (currently on a 40) but without success. Oh … and a bonus and a big reason for upgrade was the fact that it now supports the gigabit NIC.

Been a while since I’ve posted. Guess I haven’t really had much to post about. I’ve been trying to build a new MythTV box, but the Dell Precision 8100 I have won’t boot with the kernel that’s currently out for Fedora Core 6; of course, that’s what all the current drivers require. I might try MythDora to see if that works reasonably.

Work has been busy as usual. My manager seemed a bit surprised about the spike in service calls recently (fairly typical end-of-semester). I think I’ve been pretty good about juggling projects but I really need to push and get my current major one done.

I think the house is as decorated as it’s going to get for Christmas. We didn’t have to secure the tree with fishing line this year! Amazing what a level floor will do, eh? I noted that one of the side effects of the house layout is that our tree isn’t visible through windows from the road side of the house. Oh well. Maybe we’ll have lights in windows next year for people to look at. We finished up our Christmas shopping on Wednesday. liz4jc4ever is of course curious what I got her and I’m really looking forward to her opening it.
My brother-in-law John is up visiting this weekend so we can try and get his new computer up and running. It’s a custom machine that started with a barebones kit. I *think* I’ve figured out what’s been giving him grief. The first part was apparently the Windows installers didn’t like having two gigabit NICs and sound cards (one each on-board and in PCI slots). After pulling the “extra” cards, the Windows installer got slightly farther, but I suspect it can’t deal with his fancy video card (nVidia 7600), so we’re going to go into work today and borrow a PCI video card since I don’t have any of those laying around to try. Hopefully that resolves things.