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Don't know what happened exactly, but I couldn't fast forward TV shows anymore. But this time the previous fix didn't work.

Went into PHPMyAdmin, went to the mythconverg.recordedseek table and was told that the table had crashed. I clicked on the SQL tab to run an SQL command on this table.

REPAIR TABLE recordedseek;

Then I had to run

mythcommflag --rebuild -f <filename>

on my recordings.

Now it works again.

I was watching a recording the other day and tried to use the "edit recording" function to cut off the commercials andp the beginning and end. Up popped "no seektable" and I couldn't do it. I tried to fast forward, but that wasn't possible, Mythtv acted like I'd zoomed directly to the end.

Using PHPMyAdmin, I checked the "recordedseek" table in the database. It was corrupted.

I entered these commands at a prompt (I'm on ubuntu):

relevant output of mysqlcheck is here:

Then I ran commercial flagging on the recordings in my mythtv directory.

The date of the recording is in the filename.
And now it works for me.

I'm currently running Ubuntu Dapper Drake(6.06). I did it just to try it out, and I don't really like it. Here's another reason:

I needed to go with at least kernel 2.6.18 because of support for my pcHDTV card. (I didn't compile my own driver because compiling stuff on Ubuntu has tended to break things, and this was no exception.)

I thought it was a kernel bug. I got 2.6.19, patched it all the way to 2.6.20rc5 and tried them all.

Then, after even more Googling found out that it was the EVMS package that's screwing things up. It's somehow making /dev/hdb3 available, but unresponsive. I was getting "is already mounted or ... busy"-type errors.

/dev/evms/hdb works.

So I just mount /dev/evms/hdb3 and the like.

I don't even know why this only affected hdb, but not any other drive. If you stay with all Ubuntu packages it works fine, but add anything else and weird stuff starts to happen.

Well, this was driving me nuts. After hours of trying to get a dual monitor setup with my new board and Geforce card, now Flash kept fucking up. The answer I found seemed simple:

1. Set bpp in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to 24.

That's because Flash needs 24bpp? Weird. But won't work for me because I need my Voodoo4 to be at 16bpp.

2. Option "Composite" "0" in xorg.conf

Ok. Sure. I don't know exactly what it does anyway. But restarting X makes me nervous. (All those hours wasted....) Glad some guy left an easier answer somewhere:

3. export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 before running firefox

I found this last advice here. Worked for me.

Is there buzz or hum or noise on the line?

The solution is probably easier than you might think:

Move your device away from any electrical device near to it, especially AC/DC converters.

That's what worked for my Vonage box.

While I was looking for info I also found info that just plugging another phone into line 2, a non-working line 2, got rid of the noise.

It's been a couple of days since the White House Correspondent's dinner. (Don't know about this annual love-fest?Read about it here.)

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Salon story about the performance.
Another Salon story about how Colbert is being ignored.


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New York Times article about how blogs have picked up the story.


The liberal blogs say: Take that!
The conservative blogs say: He wasn't funny!

The mainstream media is getting caught up on the funny thing. Seems like a good way to diffuse it. I think they are confusing themselves. People who haven't seen it should do one of following:

• Read the transcript

• Listen to it. (minimize the video. Video links at Boingboing)
• Add a laugh track to the video, then watch it. (No one's done this yet)

Colbert walked up there with wonderfully on-point, spot-on satire of a Bush supporter.

The uncomfortable feeling everyone gets while watching the video is not unfunniness. The uncomfortableness comes from the fact that the president of the United States was ten feet away. Forget about that fact and see if you think it's funny then.

It doesn't change anything he said, it just rids it of that weird feeling no one can put their finger on.

I was having a problem getting clean url's to work after moving to another hosting provider. I'm using Drupal 4.7rc3 right now and I just couldn[t figure out what the problem was. I knew that ModRwrite was enabled. I had the right commands in my .htaccess file. I was stumped. I found this comment on Drupal.org that solved the problem for me.

The answer: Just add a slash in front of index.php in the rewrite rule like this:

Now it works just fine.

Saturday, June 10th.
Durkin's Tavern (Diversey, west of Halsted). Chicago, of course.
$25, drinks included.
Eighty-five people invited through Evite. (didn't we graduate 248 or something like that?)

Added it to Upcoming.org in case anyone uses that. Link.
Post multiple comments, can't do that with Evite.

I wish there were some kind of forum. (Lot's of questions come to mind...maybe they're best left unasked.) Maybe: von96.deprecated.net? Nah.

Official email is vonsteuben96 at yahoo.com

Who would win in a fight? Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center or Von Steuben High School?

I use Grip to rip and encode CD's on my Linux box. I recently got a CD of Japan Rail East train station melodies. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to enter all the info manually--since there are 74 tracks! Freedb had the disc listed, but all the characters were just borked on display in grip. I'm using grip 3.3.0. So I ended upwith this:

1. Go to the Config/DiscDB/Primary Server tab

2. Change "Database Character Set Encoding" to something like ISO=2022-JP
3. Initiate the disc lookup again via the shortcut button that looks like two computers connected to each other

A suggestion for Grip developers

I really really really wish that Grip had support for multiple arbitrary profiles. That way, I could set up one profile for Rock, a different one for Classical, yet another for Japanese, and another for audiobooks.
It would make things so much easier than changing and then remembering all the different settings.

I've suggested this on sourceforge already, but since I can't program, I'm not sure how far it'll go.
Anybody have a solution?

White Sox Panorama (from infield seats)

I've always liked panoramic photos. Don't know anyone who doesn't. The problem is that it's a bitch to take them. You either have to have a special camera, special film, special lens, whatever--and it always adds up to a ton of money.
There's Autostich for Windows. I've used it. It's really fast. But it's really hard to change anything if the result isn't exactly what you want.
I've found that Autopano-SIFT, Hugin, and Enblend--though kind of cryptic at the beginning--offer a lot more control over how the final product will look. Lastly, I just loaded the image into The GIMP and resized it to about 4:3.
I think it feels a bit more real than a regular panorama, especially for far away shots with lots going on, like a baseball game.

Standard panorama linked below. I'm not gonna put up the high-res versions, though.