Last weekend I finally started the strip down of the bike that I’m planning to take to Italy in 2010 for the Milan to Taranto trial.
Here are some before and after shots.
MV Agusta 350B restoration
Flight of the Conchords
I’ve watched most of their Eps, today watched S02E05, the Carol Brown song is great, I love how all his ex girlfriends are made into a choir, very cool, check it out
Mythtv Internal player and subtitles
Mythtv is the shitzen, I have been using it for perhaps the last 3 years full time. About 2 months ago I upgraded my box to mythdora 10.21 (from mythtdora 3.10) and the internal player has changed from Xine to an internal player. The issue is that the subtitles don’t work automatically if you have a .srt file – this really blows. If anyone else is running around wondering how to enable it then look no further. Play the movie then press ‘T’. Job done, not very obvious is it!
showRSS and bashpodder still no play nice
This is really starting to depress me. showRSS is the shitzen but my RSS feed reader solution (bashpodder) is just not working with it. It will down load the first feed ann enclosure that appears but will not down load subsequent enclosures there after, this is still the case with just using the public feeds. So, its back to mininova feeds for me with the following added to each of tyhe feeds to ensure only the most recent is downloaded “?num=1” What a pisser. Any bash scripting gurus please feel free to chime in and let me know how to fix this in the script.
showRSS and bashpodder = no play nice
As happy as I was pissing about with showRSS it doesn’t work well with bashpodder. Strangley, if you have more than one TV show in your personal feed provided by showRSS it will grab the first enclousure but will not grab the subsequent ones. I tested it today by running bashpodder and noticing that all through showRSS said I had an ep of Burn notice and Fifth gear the bashpodder script would not get the Fifth gear enclosure. It was not until I deleted my subscription to Burn Notice that bashpodder grabbed Fifth Gear. 🙁
I’m not 100% sure why the heck this doesn’t work, perhaps its something in bashpodder that will not parse the other feeds if the first on the list is in the bashpodder history log. I notice when I subscribed to the showRSS feed in newsgator the most recent feed is at the bottom of the list as opposed to the top. Not sure if this is the problem, I’m no bash guru but perhaps someone can check out the bashpodder code and advise.
Anyhow, to get around this I have subscribed to showRSS feeds for each of the individual shows separately (ie, I’m not using my personal feed anymore). As long as it works I couldn’t give a rats.
Replacement for TVrss?
Well, it looks like TVrss has gone for good, at least that’s what I can gather from some comments on torrentfreak, anyhooo, what to do?
I say go to showRSS (http://showrss.karmorra.info/). In short you sign up, subscribe to your favourite feeds on their site then paste your personal RSS feed from showRSS into your RSS feed reader.
You will only have one RSS feed URL in your feed reader, showRSS does the work for you and will throw all the RSS enclosures at your feed reader for the various shows that you have subscribed to when there are now episodes released (and your feed reader asks for them).
Its good, it works, I’ve switched.
ESX migration has begun
Well if you are reading this you’ll be pleased to know (at least I am) that I have migrated two machines to the new ESX box.
Its busy hosting the classic motorcycle forum on one VM and now my webserver etc in another VM. Swweeet! I can hear Western Power gasp as a large revenue stream starts drying up, namely me.
ESX Server
I am lucky enough to have a mate that from time to time gives me some of his old computer hardware. Recently he gave me a dual P4 2.4 Ghz XEON system along with (from memory) 5GB of RAM.
He installed ESX on it for me along with XP to only run the VI client – I feel a bit dirty running XP.
I am as happy as a pig in shit. Will slowly move my physical machines across to the new lump of hardware as VM’s using VMware converter.
Have already run into a problem getting an old Ubuntu 7.10 server install into ESX. It would appear that Ubuntu binds the NIC to a MAC and hence to an interface (eth0). ESX gives the VM NIC an new MAC address so its not getting on the network at the moment.
Looks like udev needs to be fooled into reassigning eth0 to the virtual NIC’s MAC address. Stay tuned (I’m sure you are all bursting to know what happens).