Well... my 3 year old monitor is having issues... kinda wish I would have bought the warrantee now, but oh well. My wife was gracious enough to allow me to buy a replacement because its giving me headaches... It's slightly fuzzy and it makes trying to read text difficult at best. Which is what was giving me headaches. I read alot, and lately all I've wanted to do at the computer while at home is watch the show's I've recorded or downloaded. Since I'm kinda a weird case when it comes to my vision... Direct sunlight it will give me a headache too(and what self respecting geek wouldn't claim such a thing anyway?)... so while outside I will almost always have my polarized sunglasses on. Its about the only way I can stand it. Anyway, back to the monitor, I found a pretty good deal for a ViewSonic 19" Widescreen LCD, and it is set to be delivered tomarrow! I'm excited. It was on its way up from Vegas last I checked. I love newegg.
For the last couple years I've been wanting to move my career towards network and systems architecture, which I think of it as "Infrastructure Architecture", and I'm just starting to figure out what type of a background do I need to beable to carry such a title. I get fairly bored when studing routers and switches to be honest, which is why I really haven't wanted to learn or study them very closely before. However, now that I have a much better understanding of my likes and dislikes, and even some (alteast perceived) understanding of the direction of the computer industry in general. Instead of learning more of the unix's I'm focusing more on network related technologies and sticking with Linux as the network OS. So my next move will be Cisco certifications. First up will be the CCNA which I've studied alot already and having some experience with cisco routers and switches so far its alot easier to remember than when I was studying originally... not sure if its because back then I really wanted my RHCE more than anything else or if I was more into becomming a Sys Admin than a Network Admin/Engineer. Either way, its making this time around alot easier ;) Next up after that will be what I'm really interested in which would be the CCDA, or the Cisco Certified Design Associate. Since, like I already said, actually administering routers and switches is somewhat of a bore to me, but networks in general I find very interesting. Designing them is definately intriguing. Hopefully that gets me off on the track I really want, and maybe I'll even go for the CCDP after that. And somewhere in the middle of all of this will be some VoIP. Anyway, thats the current plan thought I'd lay it all out for myself just because I can.
April 15, 2006 Posted by mitch |
mythtv |
After playing with a couple different versions of the linux kernel. I've found that I best resort back to the 2.6.13 kernel that had been working for me previously. I would have sooner but, with the new install and everything Gentoo 2006.0 doesn't have the option for 2.6.13 anymore. Its not in portage anymore either... So, I ended up downloading the 2.6.13.5 kernel source from kernel.org. From there the ivtv in portage works just fine. So far so good.. Hopefully I won't get anymore database corruption and no more chunks of recordings instead of one recording. :)
April 9, 2006 Posted by mitch |
mythtv |
Well, long story short, my 7 year old 15GB hard drive finally started to show its age. It started by corrupting my mysql table files for my mythtv database... not fun. I just happen to have a 40GB laptop hard drive sitting here tho... and have replaced it with that... Its taken me the better part of two days to get the mythtv box reinstalled with Gentoo and mythtv again. However I'm still having some trouble getting the DB and my recordings straightened out.... I'm thinking I'm just going to drop my entire db, and salvage all the recordings that I can for now... start it fresh and we'll pick up the pieces as we go along :)
April 4, 2006 Posted by mitch |
website |
I finally moved everything over to my new web host. It still needs some improvements here and there, but its looking like its ready to go. Let me know what you think!
