Category projects

vitamin-d design inc. and MODx

My wife is a interior designer who specializes on corporate interiors. She’s been holding off creating a website believing that a poorly done or incomplete website (i.e: “under construction”) was worse than none at all. She and her partners recently decided rebranded the business and figured that now would be a good time to make [...]

KnoppMyth R5F27

Zap2It pulled the plug on their free tv listings service earlier this month (my listings run out on the 17 th), luckily Schedules Direct (SD for those in the know) stepped up to the plate with a replacement service (not free but cheap enough).
Cecil from KnoppMyth posted instructions on getting SD to work on [...]

ROBOTS!

It’s amazing what you can come up with in 10 minutes from the detritus on your workbench and some prodding from your 6 year old.

PVR: Upgrades

I stoopeedly hosed the MySQL database on my Myth box the other day (don’t ask). I didn’t feel like spending several hours manually identifying recorded shows. And since I was faced with re-creating all my schedules, essentially starting over, I figured now would be a good time to apply some upgrades.
Previously, I’d managed to upgrade [...]

I hates you PC hardware! Hates you!

The pvr needed some extra speed. I’ve been transcoding recorded shows to mpeg4 to reduce their size, and the poor P 1.8 was bogging down under the load.
"No problem" I thought. This is generic PC stuff. Checked the mobo specs then off to TigerDirect to get a Celeron 3.2 GHz. I shut everything down, grounded [...]