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NTPD and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Listening Sockets

Trying to get ntpd to stop creating listening sockets is a royal pain in the ass. Sure, I can set a firewall rule that blocks access to the port on undesired interfaces, but it’s more work to make that happen, and it’s just not as clean. Here’s what I finally ended up doing to stop […]

Much going on

My world is eventful at present, and it seems to be preventing me from properly accomplishing much of anything.  Last Saturday my wife and I got new cell phones, finally extricating ourselves from Verizon (don’t get me started…). US Cellular has done well for us thus far – my wife has already had a support […]

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 – Configuration under Mythbuntu

I wanted to get more put together on this, but in the interest of something that may be useful to others immediately I’d like to get it posted ASAP.  This (mostly) details my experience getting the HVR-1600 working under Mythbuntu 9.10.  There are a few things remaining to get functioning the way I’d like (primarily […]