Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
After obtaining a new laptop one of the first things I always do is to make an image of the primary hard drive. I then copy this image to another computer with a lot of hard disk space and leave it there as a backup…
I’m officially on the hook for competing in Iron April 2009. It’s an interesting event organized by a real Ironman, Kevin Haugh, that takes loads of folks who normally don’t triathalons and convinces them to do the distance of an Ironman over the course of the…
As I mentioned in my previous article about using a Drobo as primary MythTV storage, the optimal solution for using a Drobo in MythTV is to record to an internal hard drive and then migrate the recordings later to the Drobo. When migrating recordings care…
Advertisement from mwave.com billing Drobo as your new Primary Storage In October 2008 I purchased a 1st generation Drobo to provide additional storage space for my growing collection of recordings from MythTV. The plan was to use the Drobo as primary storage for MythTV recordings,…
On Monday, March 9th I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis. I haven’t finished all the little revisions yet, in fact I haven’t even opened the email from my advisors yet, but I’m largely finished with grad school. If you’re interested in the thesis or the presentation, you…
The United States House of Representatives [voted 264-158 to extend the DTV Transition until June 12th](http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-352). The vote went largely along party lines with a handful of each party switching sides, but it wasn't enough to be called a bi-partisan approval. However, it fails me why this…
Almost every modern CPU supports the ability to dynamically change its clock frequency – typically done to save power when there are lesser requirements placed on the system. While the benefits for a laptop are obvious, more battery life and less heat, they may be a…
For the last 12 months American’s have been incessantly pounded with messages about the upcoming DTV transition. In simple terminology, if you’ve got an old TV hooked up to rabbit ears, it’s going to break in the very near future. The history of this problem…
Since getting an iPhone I’ve put a bit more care into making sure that all of my music is ripped and available. My music resides on a Drobo plugged into my Linux box and shared via Samba to Windows and iTunes. I’ve chosen to have iTunes organize…
I have just wiped away eight years of internets content! One of the more interesting aspects of the inauguration today was how the website at whitehouse.gov switched over from the Bush administration to the Obama site right around noon. Shortly thereafter folks noticed the drastic…