Land of the Lemmings, v2

The DVR that we got in July 2007 has been returned to Dish. We’re now using a ViP-612: dual tuners, 30 hours of HD recording or 200 hours of SD recording, HD OTA tuner/recording.

I think, in the end, this will cost me an extra $10 month, but it may be more. And another 24 month contract extension. Oh well, we’ve had Dish since December of 1999, no need to switch now.

And, it’s got support for external USB storage, so if you are looking for a Christmas gift idea, NewEgg gift cards are gladly accepted! They will probably get applied to a WesternDigital 1TB My Book.

Five years is a long time. Posting frequency has dropped off, but I’m trying.

Good link with lots of details and other links.

And, the MS knowledge base article about removing disabled network cards is handy too

And this plugin makes it even easier.

The server mentioned in this post (from 2003, wow) has gone full circle, it’s now running on CentOS, the free, rebuilt from sources version of RedHat Enterprise Linux. And it’s in a VM on our ESX infrastructure.

5 years is pretty good life out of a gentoo box, I would have to say.

This historian thinks anyone looking at the Great Depression is looking at the wrong economic slowdown. Interesting read, if nothing else.

So that I remember this if it happens again, if you can’t get an email account on your iPhone to delete, put it in “airplane mode” and try again.