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FOX ATSC

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

So I emailed our local fox station, after find out that we only have a low power repeater here in Yakima, and that LP repeaters are not governed by the same set of regulations regarding implementation by Feb ‘09 that the full power stations are. Here is his response for those in Yakima whom are [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

So, after reading a post about NTSC tuner support in 2.6.26 I decided to upgrade my HTPC to Ubuntu 8.10 which is the development release of Ubuntu. So, after a seamingly smooth upgrade, I found out that Ubuntu 8.10 comes with 2.6.27 not 2.6.26… even better.
Nvidia drivers have previously required kernel headers, but not source. [...]

Google Earth Satellites

Friday, September 5th, 2008

So I have always been fascinated by satellites. So when I wokeup this morning, and was glancing at Slashdot while eating breakfast I was really excited to see an article about Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth.
It took me a bit to figure out how to turn off all the Debris and Spacejunk, [...]

Dell Studio 1735

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

So my laptop has finally kicked the bucket. Wont power up, wont anything. Because I haven’t been updating my blog, you wouldn’t know that is lacks any internal fans. You also wouldn’t know that the battery wont charge and the power brick has an after market capacitor in it, because it blew up a while [...]