Archive for May 2004

Uptime Anniversary

I’d almost forgotten about this: roller-c3640 uptime is 1 year, 1 week, 4 days, 17 hours, 23 minutes System returned to ROM by power-on System restarted at 19:27:12 PDT Mon May 12 2003 roller-cat2900 uptime is 1 year, 1 week, 4 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes System returned to ROM by power-on System restarted at […]

Charter HD

I’ve called up Charter Cable and asked for their HD package to review for Reno HDTV. The cable guy is scheduled to come by on May 18th sometime between 11am and 2pm. As a side note, the minimum required package is Basic Expanded Cable plus HDTV, which was quoted to me as $67/mo. They currently […]

renohdtv.com

In response to the populatiry of my HDTV in Reno page, I’ve registered the domain name “renohdtv.com” as something easier to tell your friends about.

Fixing a corrupt RPM database

RPM is great for maintaining packages on multiple systems – until something goes wrong and the database gets corrupted. Here’s a quick and easy way to rebuild a corrupt RPM database: $ rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* $ rpm –rebuilddb

Reno HDTV Updates

I got a report on Charter’s HDTV service from a reader the other day, so I’ve updated the Reno HDTV page with that information plus some new stuff.