I was reading an article about Boreout in the paper this lunch time. This is stress caused by being unchallenged and bored at work, it has happened to me before and I think it was the lack of challenge part that caused me the problem. I remember that when I felt like this it took me a very long time to figure out what the problem was. No amount of money can fix it, only a new job with new challenges can really do the trick.
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
One of the tv cards in my mythtv backend requires the driver to load firmware at boot time. The driver for this card was crashing repeatedly so I have been keeping an eye out for updates. The firmware received an upgrade a few months ago but it was still crashing and it was weeks before I realized that the old firmware was still being loaded. It turns out that you have to actually remove the power from the system before it will reload the firmware. A reboot is not sufficient. This really needs to be in BIG letters somewhere on the linuxtv site.
Anyway I now have a whole month of uptime on the backend. This is only the second time I have had the system so stable in the 3-4 years I have been running mythtv.
Just came across an article that claims to allow you to detect usb hardware keyloggers. Is it me or is this silly? If you want to know if there is a keylogger connected to your system then look at what is plugged in!