Monday, November 06, 2006

Dell 2005FPW with the LG LST-3510A HDTV receiver

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I have a two year old Dell 20.1" widescreen LCD display (2005FPW). I also have three LG LST-3510A HDTV receiver/DVD players. Just so an...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

XCode debugger exited with status (1)

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All of a sudden an XCode project which I was sharing with a collaborator refused to be debugged. The debugger was evidently exiting unexpect...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

How not to use the boost singleton class

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This is an odd and frustrating warning I was seeing while using the templated singleton class which comes with the boost C++ libraries whil...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

New version of Remote Remote GH for MythTV

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Just posted some fixes I did over the last several hours in a new release .
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Blogger Dashboard Widget

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Google has a bunch of Dashboard Widgets out today. Just testing to see how that works.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Setting up a Cheap Version Control Server for XCode

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If you program, you need a version control system. We've all heard it, we all know it. But it's a trouble to setup and a pain in the...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Throwing RAM at XCode Linking

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In my day job, I spend a lot of time compiling and linking a fairly large commercial C++ application. My PowerBook G4 was not up to the task...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Windmill vs. New Refrigerator

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Must resist urge to use the word tilting I recently bought a Kill A Watt energy consumption measuring device, and have become an enthusiast...
Monday, July 31, 2006

Brenthaven Laptop Bags: MacBook Slim

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I purchased a MacBook two weeks ago. I am replacing my trusty PowerBook simply because the MacBook is so much faster and Apple no longer sel...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Advice to the 30 year old car buyer

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And now for something completely different. Advice on buying cars. Three years ago, I was single, dating, and car shopping. I had always dri...
Saturday, July 01, 2006

The Ongoing Expense of MythTV (or why is my electric bill $105 with no air conditioning?)

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A few months ago, I purchased a Kill-A-Watt power monitoring device, and today I went around the house and measured the power usage of my v...
Sunday, June 11, 2006

Channel Master 7775 versus Radio Shack In-line Amplifier

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In my, seemingly, never ending quest for reliable reception of the Boston Fox affiliate, I decided to upgrade my rooftop antenna's (Wine...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Signal Strength Script for EyeTV 2.2.1

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[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. The following script works with EyeTV 2...
Monday, May 22, 2006

Tuner card versus an HDTV receiver

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A coworker, who knows I am an HDTV know-it-all, asked me whether he should get a tuner card for his desktop PC or buy an ATSC tuner box for ...

Don't act like a tourist in New York

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My friend Mindy has another blog site exploring New York City both day and night. It's New York City Nomad . I read her first post about...
Saturday, May 13, 2006

SphereX versus Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speaker Systems

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After banishing my noisy MythTV Linux box to the basement, and returning that sweet iMac to work, I had no way of watching recorded programm...
Sunday, May 07, 2006

Cool looking product

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This is interesting, a container for a Mac Mini which mounts on the VESA mounting holes flat panel monitors and TVs. The mount effectively ...
Saturday, May 06, 2006

Using EyeTV 2.1 to Orient a Roof Antenna

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[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. [Update: also works with the 2.2 update...
Monday, May 01, 2006

On redecorating a small apartment

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My friend Mindy has started her own blog, concentrating on personalizing her first home: a condominium in Brooklyn. Small Space Big Idea If...
Sunday, April 30, 2006

The iMac Dual Core as a media PC

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I have updated this post since its original incarnation, and may update it without notice in the future. Requirements I've been dissatis...