Today, on all Hallow’s Eve, the MythTv computer finally gave up the ghost and joined the choir eternal, to push up daisies with DVR’s of past lives. The MythTv box had the distinction of being the last real desktop in the house – albeit, not even serving in a desktop role. But at about 2 this afternoon, while trying to get a file off of it so I could show the kids another classic Universal Studios horror movie, it failed to respond. At first, I thought it was just turned off by accident. Alas, no, it refuses to respond to any of its power buttons. Its quiet, its somber, its dead, Jim. And I shall mourn for it, because it was our only means of recording CBS TV shows for later viewing (with my schedule as it is for the next few months, we can get everything off of Hulu except CBS. Now we don’t have a mean of getting Big Bang Theory or The Mentalist easily/legally).
And yes, I’m still on the fence about NanoWriMo.
It also stands to reason, just because I’m that lazy/slow, I haven’t finished that short story. I’ve made it to halfway through the editing process, but I’m slow going as I try and rewrite it as I go. On the upside, the kids and I have had a great day together, replete with another session of #rpgkids, movies, and general mayhem. And now we’re getting ready to head out for Trick Or Treating. Look out, neighborhood!
RIP MythTV box
Don’t feel guilty if you decide against NaNoWriMo. Keep on that short story, though! I want to see it in print!
Arrrgghhh! I am going to hope it’s storage was on a server somewhere.
You’d like to hope that, wouldn’t you? ~sigh~ No, it’s all safely locked away on sata and ide disks inside the carapace that was our mythtv box.
Bad power supply? Decent ones go for about 30 bucks on newegg.
If you want, Mike, I can pick it up an see about getting it fixed for you. I’m finishing up a myth-box for a colleague right now; but I should have time to look at your box later this week.
Thanks John 🙂 The real debate at home right now is whether its worth it or not. I can get the movies/music off of it thanks to the day job (we have devices for accessing sata and ide disks), which just leaves the functionality of the mythbox itself. We’re only recording 2 shows right now, and discussing whether we want to do fios (at which point, we could just add a dvr), or none of the above. Everything else we get off of netflix and hulu these days, usually in better quality that our analog feed can provide. Bah. Computers suck 🙂
Err. Um. I believe you ment to say – ‘Franken-puters suck.’
Mine are awesome. Fully of debian stabilized, nvidia accelerated, ASTC tuning, LIRC-controlled, AMD quad-core goodness.