Month: February 2007

After recently upgrading my MythTV system, I set to editing the metadata for my video collection.

Everything worked fine when editing through the regular interface, but when attempting to edit the data through the MythWeb interface, I noticed that entries where the title started with double-quotes, the field in the edit screen was empty.

Andy Fore – Mon, 2007 – 01 – 15 16:53

In order to keep my layout and content nice and neat, I have created a separate node for use for the “daily” poetry. In the header across the top of the page, next to Contact is a link to the poetry node called Daily Poem. While I don’t always post a poem every day, I do put new ones up regularly.

Andy Fore – Thu, 2007 – 01 – 18 17:43

• Allowed HTML tags:

  1. This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

     For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

     Tag Description	You Type	You Get
     Anchors are used to make links to other pages.	arfore.com	arfore.com
     Emphasized	Emphasized	Emphasized
     Strong	Strong	Strong
     Cited	Cited	Cited
     Coded text used to show programming source code	Coded	Coded
     Unordered list – use the to begin each list item	First item Second item
     Ordered list – use the to begin each list item	First item Second item
     Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. begins the definition list, begins the definition term and begins the definition description.	First term First definition Second term Second definition	First term First definition Second term Second definition
     Block quoted	Block quoted	Block quoted

     Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

     If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like & for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML’s entities page. Some of the available characters include:

     Character Description	You Type	You Get
     Ampersand	&	&
     Greater than	>	>
     Less than	<

So, according to a story on Reuters, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is evaluating whether or not to ban Novell from didtributing future versions of their Linux OS.

“The community of people wants to do anything they can to interfere with this deal and all deals like it. They have every reason to be deeply concerned that this is the beginning of a significant patent aggression by Microsoft,” Eben Moglen, the Foundation’s general counsel, said on Friday.

Andy Fore – Mon, 2007 – 02 – 05 01:32

The Gypsy Violin
by Munda

The compelling violin lures With an irresistible yearn Dance, dance, please dance for me

I can no longer adjourn!

Ethereal notes float from its strings Caressing like a lover’s hand Sensual music, Angel’s touch

Leading the way to wonderland

Embracing with utter delight Craving, beckoning me Tempting my lonely heart

Dance, dance on my melody!

Faster, faster the music escapes Without compassion to body or soul Seducer of lonely hearts

Until dancing is my only goal

Faces gyrate while I dance on passion Flashes of fire in the corner of my eyes The violin plays like never before

Until I become one and loneliness dies

With a final cry and a final touch The violin stops, the music ends Leaving behind an emptiness

We’ll meet again, my violin friend

ref. url: The Gypsy Violin

Andy Fore – Tue, 2007 – 02 – 06 12:37

In order to keep my layout and content nice and neat, I have created a separate node for use for the “daily” poetry. In the header across the top of the page, next to Contact is a link to the poetry node called Daily Poem. While I don’t always post a poem every day, I do put new ones up regularly.

Also, starting with the poem posted today, I will be listing the URL that I got the poem from, if applicable. While the large majority of these poems come from various sites on the web that I find doing Google searches, I may from time to time post an original work by people I know that is not on the web yet.

Andy Fore – Thu, 2007 – 01 – 18 17:43

She Walks in Beauty
by Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair’d the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

ref. url: She Walks in Beauty

Hear it being read by Bill Berkson

Andy Fore – Mon, 2007 – 01 – 22 13:13

Keep A Poem In Your Pocket
By Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Keep a poem in your pocket And a picture in your head And you’ll never feel lonely

At night when you’re in bed.

The little poem will sing to you The little picture bring to you A dozen dreams to dance to you

At night when you’re in bed.

So Keep a picture in your pocket And a poem in your head And you’ll never feel lonely

At night when you’re in bed.

ref. url: Poem In Your Pocket

Andy Fore – Fri, 2007 – 01 – 19 13:09

One of the annoyances I have discovered with MythTV and Fedora Core is the inability to eject the optical drive in a default install of MythTV.

Apparently the function EJECT that is called in the menu file for the Optical Disk doesn’t work in Fedora Core.

To fix this, edit the file optical_menu.xml. Look for the line:

EJECT

Remove the text EJECT and replace it with:

EXEC eject -T

This will tell the system to send the optical drive a close tray command if the tray is open and a open tray command if the tray is closed.

Andy Fore – Tue, 2007 – 01 – 16 02:27

Today is the birthday of Lord Byron, an English poet born in 1788 in Scotland. He was born George Gordon Noel.

His first success was the poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage written in 1812, which is based around his journeys from England to the eastern Mediterranean.

Check out today’s daily poem for another of his more recognizable poems, She Walks in Beauty.

This particular poem is one of my favorites, and it was featured in the television series Beauty and the Beast that ran on the CBS network in the US from 1987 until 1990. The first season of this show has recently been released on DVD.

Andy Fore – Mon, 2007 – 01 – 22 13:40