http://www.morcant.net/blog Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:29:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/44 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 ... http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/37 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 ... http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/29 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 ... http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/27 So I have decided to add an ATSC tuner to my HTPC machine. My choice, the WinTV 1800. I have a few extra PCIe slots and aside from USB devices, this appears to be the only other device supported. In fact, it appears to be the only PCIe device supported. ... http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/39 So I was able to get motorola software update, p2kseem and p2kcommander loaded on a windows machine today. Once I got the auxilliary devices to actually show up it was smooth sailing. I have my subsidiary code now and everything that can be unlocked has been. Unfortunately I have inadvertently ... http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/23 So my old cell phone has randomly been "locking up" every since my daughter decided it need to be dunked in a glass of milk 6 months ago. Well I finally got fed up with it and got myself a Motorola RAZR V3c. I like everything about it so far except ... http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/20 You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out I'm consumed by the chill of solitary http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/17 So I was at BestBuy this week with a co-worker looking for Xboxes for a friend's wedding present. While I was waiting for the pimply teenager to scurry to the back I was looking around and I was reminded that at some point I was going to get a wireless mouse ... http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/12 I have been using KDE 3.5.1 for around 2 months now and am quite impressed. It is not the end all - fix all desktop. Infact there are quite a few things that are more difficult to do in KDE. I like this though. Most things default to a reasonable ... http://www.morcant.net/blog/archives/11