Weather and TV - 10:52, Saturday 17 January 2009 |
Certainly been cold lately! We've had temperatures of -20C and below most days since before Christmas, and one night hit -54C with wind-chill. There's about two feet of snow in the yard, though a bit of it melted today.
Aside from shovelling I've been busy building a MythTV box for recording TV by computer; with an Intel Atom CPU and WD 'green' 1TB disk it can hold about a thousand hours of TV footage and only uses about 40W of power so it can run all year round without costing much. The Atom is plenty fast enough to capture a few hours of MPEG-2 video each day, transcode it down to a better codec to save space and automatically remove the commercials; that means no more remembering to record the shows when we're not home, as the software automatically downloads the TV schedule and records them itself.
This is also why I don't have any snow photos; the MythTV computer is currently using the keyboard, mouse and monitor from the Windows PC that I normally use to download pictures from the digital camera! |
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