Not sure if other people feel this way but I have soooo many small and major projects going on at the same time I never seem to complete any on time (my time frame).
I do my day job but what about the evenings? Do I spend them painting my war gaming figures? Programming online geek tools for D&D? Levelling my character(s) in warhammer? Or getting those plants in the ground that we bought ages ago, or have been grown by seed? Or should I be working out?
It is funny. At work I have this same problem but I organise myself, at home it all goes out the window! At work I use Freemind (google it) to organise my projects and time, it was also used to time the wedding tasks etc. I do have one for home but I never open it ;-)
Ahh well - that’s life.
At least I finished my linux server! (See post below).
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Damn the man!
It has been a long long time since I have posted but I hope to have a few more things to write about these days.
Lately I have been on a quest to damn the man! Which means I am F'N tired of paying for shit because some monopoly forces us to. When I say paying for shit I mean MONEY or even worse MY TIME (which is worth way more then money :P ) The two big offenders?
Phone and TV
Both of these areas are full of big fat companies who make loads of cash exploiting you either by charging way too much for a simple service OR in the case of TV waisting your life away with commercials for shit I don't need to buy.
So! the quest has come up with a few treasures.
The first to get the boot is the phone company. We got a new service called Naked ADSL which is a new ADSL style that does not require an activated phone line! :D So you call the phone company and tell them to go drown themselves. Next you contract for your Naked ADSL. They kindly provide you with ADSL over a phone line AND give you VoIP with a REAL phone number.
So we now have
* A real phone number
* Free calls anywhere in ozzie land
* No fk'n bill from the phone company :D
Next? TV
This was a little harder to crack. We recently bought a new computer to act as our linux server for home (Web proxy, DNS cache, file server, file download system, etc). So I installed the MythTV software which specializes in capturing TV and allowing you to setup recording times and the big kicker? It can "save space" by stripping out commercials!
So I went and spent 70$ on a HighDef TV capture card and set to work. After awhile of reading bad info on the net I finally got it all working! I am going to post up my solution later for others.
Now I can record, digital TV and HD TV which are free in ozzie land and all the commercials are being stripped out :D So we can watch shows now without all the crap!
TV 0$ a month!!
Damn the man! :D
Future work is to get these videos to play on the TV downstairs over the network. This isn't hard just need more equipment. I'll build a slick looking system that can do all kinds of playback. Blue-Ray, MythTV, Music, Etc etc.
Lately I have been on a quest to damn the man! Which means I am F'N tired of paying for shit because some monopoly forces us to. When I say paying for shit I mean MONEY or even worse MY TIME (which is worth way more then money :P ) The two big offenders?
Phone and TV
Both of these areas are full of big fat companies who make loads of cash exploiting you either by charging way too much for a simple service OR in the case of TV waisting your life away with commercials for shit I don't need to buy.
So! the quest has come up with a few treasures.
The first to get the boot is the phone company. We got a new service called Naked ADSL which is a new ADSL style that does not require an activated phone line! :D So you call the phone company and tell them to go drown themselves. Next you contract for your Naked ADSL. They kindly provide you with ADSL over a phone line AND give you VoIP with a REAL phone number.
So we now have
* A real phone number
* Free calls anywhere in ozzie land
* No fk'n bill from the phone company :D
Next? TV
This was a little harder to crack. We recently bought a new computer to act as our linux server for home (Web proxy, DNS cache, file server, file download system, etc). So I installed the MythTV software which specializes in capturing TV and allowing you to setup recording times and the big kicker? It can "save space" by stripping out commercials!
So I went and spent 70$ on a HighDef TV capture card and set to work. After awhile of reading bad info on the net I finally got it all working! I am going to post up my solution later for others.
Now I can record, digital TV and HD TV which are free in ozzie land and all the commercials are being stripped out :D So we can watch shows now without all the crap!
TV 0$ a month!!
Damn the man! :D
Future work is to get these videos to play on the TV downstairs over the network. This isn't hard just need more equipment. I'll build a slick looking system that can do all kinds of playback. Blue-Ray, MythTV, Music, Etc etc.
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