by Jono Bacon | Nov 17, 2005 | Uncategorized
Recorded LUGRadio Episode 3 last night and it was fun. Plenty of different things to discuss, an interesting interview, and the usual array of fun and banter. The show is out on Monday. Yesterday Paul and I started poncing around with Asterisk@Home. We have been...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 16, 2005 | Uncategorized
So, it seems that jonobacon.com survived to live another day, despite my predictions of doom and disaster. Hey, with the risks of drinking too much, smoking too much, bird flu, killer mouth disease, being run over, getting bottled by an all day drinker, being blown up...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 13, 2005 | Uncategorized
Right, I am in the process of moving over to the new site. Naturally, any move to a new codebase is going to have its share of snags, and there may well be some problems with the site over the next day or so. To complicate matters, the switchover of the DNS often...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
Interesting day today. Had a meeting with a local community project who are looking to implement a community center full of Open Source boxes. After some discussion, they will be running Ubuntu, GIMP, Blender, OpenOffice.org and more. They are also interested in using...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 8, 2005 | Uncategorized
I am confirmed as a speaker at the Southern California Linux Expo on Feb 11th and 12th next year. I have never been to California before and I am quite looking forward to it. I am also hoping to squeeze in some LUGs and other bits while I am there – if you are...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 7, 2005 | Uncategorized
Got back into work after a number of weeks away from the office. In this time I have been on holiday for two weeks and then another two weeks looking after the new puppy at home (one week working, one week off). I want to thank my incredible bosses at OpenAdvantage...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 6, 2005 | Uncategorized
Did the gig tonight at the Little Civic and it went well. We got up on stage, treated the audience to 30 minutes of pounding metal and got off. You know when you have put your heart into a gig when you get off the stage and feel rather dazed and dizzy. The response...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 3, 2005 | Uncategorized
Tuesday evening I headed to Manchester to speak at an IBM migration event. Headed out in the evening for a few beers and it was great to meet up with Cliff, Andy, Tony and Colin again. It was really great to see Justin Davies again – I only ever meet him at...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 1, 2005 | Uncategorized
Today the PVR-350 and the channel switcher box arrived. This evening I had a crack at getting them working and the channel box works and the PVR-350 is nearly finished. I just need an S-Video lead before I can complete the setup. I will pick one up tomorrow. Tuesday I...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 31, 2005 | Uncategorized
Well, its been a hectic week and the fruits of my MythTV efforts are present and correct. I now have pretty much the entire remote control working (apart from the directional buttons which I have a few bugs with), the LCD screen is fully working and is remarkably...
