Kevin's Ramblings

Stage one of the exterior beautification process is complete.  We now have new gutters serving our house.  With the removal of all the trees this spring, this should really help alleviate some of the headache that we've dealt with in years past.

See pictures in the gallery of the new gutters!

We've just started to update the exterior of our home.  About six months ago we had three trees taken down.  It has really opened up our view and will dramatically drop on the number of leaves we need to deal with in the fall.

Most recenlty, we've started to sand down the desk to get a new coat of stain or paint.

We'll be putting up pictures as we we get them organized.  Keep your eyes out for an invite to a deck-warming party.

I'm running MythDora 10.21 on a Dell Dimension 4100 with 2x Hauppauge PVR-350's connected to my home Comcast Cable System.

I've got the Metallurgy theme running and it's great (very clean lines and easy to navigate.

My problem arrises with MythVideo.  I can do a rip, but when I try to make the change to the IMDB number via MyhWeb I get the following error:

Error

Could not create a symlink to /home/mythtv/.mythtv/MythVideo, the local MythVideo artwork directory for this hostname (mythtv.kmsigma.com). Please create a symlink to your MythVideo directory at data/video_covers in order to use the video artwork portions of MythWeb

I've read a few postings, but many center around MythTV from SNV or from an original compilation, not a Fedora Spin.  Any chance some of the people browsing around the interweb can help me?

The MythTV box, she lives!

I've been working in IT for several years now and for the most part love it.

As a helpdesk agent, I got to work on the frontlines with the callers and generally got along well with them and with IT on the whole.  It's an odd razor's edge to walk between the user community and the IT Infrastructure.

Anyway, after a while I was promoted to a Shift Supervisor on same helpdesk and I ran into some of the issues that only Helpdesk Supervisors see.  I know that tickets I created were always concise and contained the extact right amount of information.  Too much is overkill and no one knows what the ticket is really about, and too little is just plain useless.

Not long after getting that particular gig, I found the Chronicles of George.  Needless to say I was in stitches for days reading over the tickets of the single worst helpdesk technician ever.  Spellcheck?  Why bother.  Knowing how a computer worked?  No way.  Having a single clue about Technology in general?  Over-rated.

So for all 2 of you who read this blog (*snicker*snicker*), I include a link to the ever popular, and always insightful, Chronicles of George.

Microsoft and Netflix bind together to bring more home entertainment to the masses.

Trying to make a decision between open source or MS...

I've recently had to work with a few PST's that had to be merged.  It's a painful process to be done by hand, but it's possible.  I purchased the program "Upstart" from Pete Maclean.  Pete's been writing software for a number of years and his Upstart program has to be one of the best and easiest I've ever used.

Thsi program will perform merges, convert ANSI PST's to Unicode PST's, and change compression.  It also includes some de-duping, which is nice if you have to work with multiple archived PSTs.

More information is available here: http://www.maclean.com/upstart.php

So after the turmoil of the past few weeks here at the KMSigma Server farm, I was able to put the pictures back up online in a gallery called "Wedding."  Check them out.

The local electrical company is moving more poles along the road.  As such, I've run into problem again with keeping my servers and network online.  I'd like to plan something nasty for them, but I'm just too kind hearted.