@Uber, what are you doing for my mother?

I recently took the kids on a weekend trip to visit my folks. And what I learned was awesome and horrible, all at once. My 81-year-old mother has been diagnosed with macular degeneration. It’s a condition that in her case, has no cure. Having already lost the...

Out with old and in with the new

I have been waiting a long time to resurrect an old friend of mine: my MythTV box. I built that machine ten years ago. (I’d show you the specs, but they’re locked away ON the machine in an antique mediawiki web server). It runs Root-on-LVM-on-Raid top to...