Recently I had to re-install the mythtv box for the living room as the drive died in it. So the install goes fine and everything works.... almost.... the resolution is stuck at 640x480 on that nice 37" flat panel. Oh yeah that old Geforce FX 5200 card for some odd reason...

Somewhere along the line the Russian spammers have decieded that <whatever>-list@gnome.org would be a good bunch of addresses to spam. Now normally this wouldn't be an issue, however seeing as I am on the moderating team it has increased the traffic to my mailbox, grrr...

With the coming of fall, tempatures have started going down. This brings up a unique re-occuring problem at work. I work at a datacenter and during the cooler months the big challenge is keeping the room cool. Yep, as hard as that is to believe it's harder to keep a datacenter...