My Random Thoughts

I made a bit of an impulse buy last night. I stopped by the local circuit city and bought one of these. Now I know how Dann feels about his eeepc. This thing is so cool! It’s not much larger than a hardcover book, has a keyboard that is very usable. It runs a tweaked version of Fedora so once you unlock the real menu you can use the add/remove program to load rpm’s from the repository’s. I’ll have some more to say about on the show this once I have some more time to play with it.

It would seem that my post have changed from being a quarterly thing to more of a twice a year thing. Sorry about that but I’ve just never found it that easy to talk about myself. Oh well, be that as it may, Linc (the master of all things BASH) has written a couple of scripts that if you have a Tivo series 2 recorder and run Linux you need to get.

The first script is great for the times that you just need to get one or two shows off your tivo. You run the script and it gets a listing from your Tivo, puts it into file which you then can edit out all the shows you don’t want to download. After you run the edited file, you’ll end up with a nice xViD of the show that tTvo recorded.

The second script is a bashpodder clone for tivo. You set it up to run as a cron job and it will download from Tivo nightly while remembering what it already has so as not to download it again. In this version you have the choice to encode it to an xViD file or to encode it for viewing on your Nokia tablet.

Both these scripts complement my Myth box because the way I’m set up right now, my Tivo has the converter box attached to it so it gets all the channels and my myth box only gets basic cable. Now I can have the best of both.

Happy New Year to All!

Merry Christmas to all.

I’ve posted some more video from our trip to OLF this year. I won’t be winning any movie awards with them but compared to some of the stuff on YouTube…

You can get it at http://youtube.com/user/TLLTS.

I’ve still got the drawing at the show to put up.

I had a great time at OLF this year. It was great meeting up and talking with our listeners. It was also great to meet up again with my co-hosts that I haven’t seen since everyone has moved from the Lehigh Valley (except Pat). We’ll have to find a midway point to get together more often. Many thanks must also go out to the organizers of OLF for putting together such a great show, without their hard work we wouldn’t have had so much fun.
I’ve posted most of the pictures I took here. I’ve got some video that I’ll get posted once I edit it.

This was after we got into Columbus airport.

The real reason I don’t blog often.

http://www.savagechickens.com/blog/2007/08/eight-steps.html

Happy Birthday to Me. I’m 44 today.
I don’t feel old but it seems different when you write it out. Oh well, off to eat some cake.

Mmmm, cake.

The Nokia 770 is now fulfilling one of the main reasons I bought it for.
At home I run MythTV on my desktop but I never seem to have time after I get
home to watch the few programs that I record on it. Heck, if it wasn’t for
Sunday night cartoons on Fox and Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network I probably
wouldn’t even need MythTV.
After digging around on the web, I found on the Maemo site a script called 770-encode
that uses MEncode to convert video into a format that the Nokia will play using its
video player. I had to write a wrapper script so that the file names I get from Myth
ended up in a format that the encode script understood but after that it’s almost all
automatic. After I pick the shows in Myth to record, Myth will then run a user job
which calls the script. The result is I end up with a newly encoded file in my home directory
which I then copy over to the Nokia.
My next task will be to write a script that will sync the Nokia to the desktop.