Reconfigure

Notoriously resistant to (for practical purposes, afraid of) change.

Digital TV

Dec 31, 2006 [10:44]

Yesterday I got a TataSky DTH connection. Not being much of a TV user it does not matter too much. Took it because it was a 'benefit' from my employer. Wonder what its with the people that they give away digital TV connections. Melvin mentioned that he is also getting DTH connections from his office, IIRC it was DishTV.

Good part is that I don't have to deal with the grainy analog movies being telecast (yeah, movies are mostly what I use TV for). Reminders are useful if I were a bonafide couch potato (probably I could have them sent to my comp. instead :P). The bad part is that its scores pretty low on cost-benefit (for me, that is). I guess I might have to pay tax for this as well. The interactivity is almost useless. PVR is something I am looking forward to, though. I wonder how its going to affect those movie channels which do lotza re-runs.

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Powernow, needle phobia, bridge mode and new domain

Dec 23, 2006 [06:33]

New home

Thanks to Vikas and Melvin, I got myself a domain name. I've been lazy on this (though I knew its not the right thing to be lazy about) and Vikas' showing me his domain was a catalyst. Mine is kinda lousy being a third level name and all but hoping for first name in second level is too much.

Powernow

This had been crawling for some time, last month (yeah, before I took ill, for those who know about that) I did a BIOS upgrade and powernow-k8 module started working. But then no big deal except for 2-3 degrees drop in the temperature when I switch to the 1 Ghz mode.

Bridge mode

Another thing that was crawling but not for long. apt-get install pppoeconf and run it after setting the MT 882 to bridge mode (in the WAN settings). Add route to ppp0 and that was it. Its not of much use except debugging plus the extra tension about setting up the firewall. But then one could setup Counterstrike server on Windows. Then again I'll have to figure out how to get this working on windows plus a firewall is kinda un avoidable.

Needle phobia

Yeah the nurses at the hospital fixed that. I had blood samples taken every 6 hours. Can't believe I let them do that. Plus the cannula almighty - It was the first time I had that one on me. Horrible.

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