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rssnewzbin updates

I committed some prototype db code for rssnewzbin last night. It’s not hooked into anything at the moment (and it’s just a pickle dump), but it’s a start. I plan on adding a sqlite backend as well….

Fedora n Mythtv n Hellanzb oh my!

I’ve been running Gentoo on it for forever, but lately I’ve grown tired of dealing with the weekly tree breakage and hassles. I also wanted to attempt a 64 bit OS in the hopes it would gain me enough to play h264-encoded files w/o glitches.
My first attempt was using Ubuntu, but performance wasn’t much [...]

Trac fixed

Seems my .htaccess file was borked taking my trac install effectively offline.  It’s fixed now for the three people that actually care…

New Hosting

Well I moved hosting… Again… VPSLand is a decent VPS hosting option, but I was having issues with poor disk I/O performance and the plan just wasn’t cutting it. So now I’m using slicehost. I’m using their entry-level plan, but it comes with 256MB, 10GB storage and 100GB bandwidth for $20/mo. Now [...]

Updated Gaim Edgy packages

I upgraded the Gaim packages in my Edgy repo to the latest (beta 4) release today. Because I stupidly didn’t sync with the upstream Ubuntu packages, you’ll have to remove the gaim-otr plugin and re-install. The plugins I have are gaim-otr, gaim-encryption and gaim-libnotify. I’m prolly gonna go ahead and do [...]