- An update on the old man for everyone. After a scary few days when he didn't seem to recognize us, he seems to be at least partly back and semi mobile. His right leg is still paralyzed and he has no feeling in it, but he seems to be able to use it. Left leg seems improved.The seizures continue and we have changed his medication to try to get them under control. He is waking up and calling for help in the early hours of the morning and is unable to control his bladder during a seizure.But he's responding to his name again… At least as much as the stubborn old man used to anyway. And he is being much better with Nanuq after the last few days of acting terrified of his little brother. Not out of the woods yet but we have a go forward and still hoping for the best. #stlloki #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram Photo taken yesterday while eating lunch at Have a Cow. - March 10, 2024
- Send good vibes for the old man Loki. #stlloki is in a bad way this week. Suffered several grand mal seizures this week with no identifiable cause and has been left paralyzed in his right leg and partially on his left. His behavior has turned extremely erratic and verging on violent. He's having trouble recognizing people and even Nanuq.Not the best pic I have of him, but one of the most recent of the old man. #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - March 8, 2024
- Night walk through the Redwoods Tree walk in Rotorua… The lights are so beautiful and made for a lovely end to the evening… #newzealand #redwoodstreewalkrotorua - February 1, 2024
You know, now that I have a blog I start to realize the horrible irony of blogs in general; that is that when there’s lots of stuff going on in your life, you don’t have time to update the blog and TELL people about it. Conversely, when you have time to update, there’s nothing going on to write about.
I’m really just putting in an entry this morning so that people who read this (according to my apache logs, there are a few) that I am working on an update… it’s just going to take a bit of time as I need to get some picutres!
What am I doing? Well, I’ve finally bitten the bullet and decided to launch myself into the world of PVR’s by building a MythTV box. It’s a free PVR software for Linux. I think this is going to be a fun project, but it remains to be seen how well it works…
So what is my hardware for this? Well, much of it is leftovers from old systems I’ve already started building;
Case: Gateway Destination Case (old GW box…)
Mobo: Iwill BD100
CPU: AMD Athlon 800
RAM: 768M
Video: Geforce4 MX440
Hard Drives: 1x 10Gb drive (OS), 1x 60Gb drive (Data)
Misc: DVD ROM drive with Hollywood Plus decoder
I’m planning to put Fedora Core 3 on it… already got the box built this weekend, but my first download of Fedora had a bad disc 1… ACK! So, as I type I’m downloading it again.
Well, I plan to take some pictures of the installation as I work on it… the rest of my hardware is currently on order;
1x Serial to RCA Satellite Receiver cable (to control channel)
1x Hauppauge PVR-250 Decoder Card
1x Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Yikes… got to run… gotta try to get to work like sometime today…