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.
