As stated in previous posts my Laptop is set up with the Refit boot manager to use three operating systems.

After reinstalling GNU/Linux recently (to take a look at mint), refit would not boot anymore and show an error message about not finding the partition.

Trying to resync the GPT and MBR partion tables fails with „Analysis inconclusive. Partition will not be touched“. Also Windows would not start and instead show a message, that the bootloader files have been altered and one should try a repair with the recovery console 🙁 (continue reading…)

Today I looked for Big Bang Theory fortunes to integrate into my website. I couldn’t find any, therefore I created one. Have fun and place them in /usr/share/games/fortunes.

… and have a happy 1st May 🙂

I’m a happy MythTV user and I love the keyword based recording, which means that the system matches programs to record in the electronic program guide by keywords I have scheduled and surprises me – sometimes in both ways 😛 – everyday. If I’m not too busy to look at the recorded programs …

I’m actually not much a TV person (it got better again since I have MythTV and it strips the commercials so well) and I don’t have the time to check out the program guide on a regular basis to see what was recorded.

Thus I looked at other programs I use: why not simply send a mail, when a new recording is in. I looked for an option in MythTV and  if someone else on the net had the same idea and maybe posted something. But I couldn’t find anything, except for UserJobs, which are being executed after recording and I already had used before. (continue reading…)

Finally my new macbook has arrived, it was overdue since the iBook 2,2 with 700MHz has become pretty slow and of course, is now well supported by Linux. Therefore everything worked and I couldn’t fiddle around with it any longer and actually had to do some work with it ;-P (continue reading…)