Drew Stephens @ 5:50 pm —
My MythTV installation hasn’t been working for a couple of weeks and I hadn’t gotten around to fixing it until today; shows you how much TV matters to me when I’m busy. It was a really easy error to fix - simply a crashed table which was quick to diagnose and fix even though I hadn’t ever encountered anything of the sort before. For Google-searchers, the error from mythbackend was as follows:
<snip>
2006-11-28 17:38:35.805 DB Error (UpdateMatches):
Query was:
DELETE FROM program WHERE manualid = -1 OR (manualid <> 0 AND -1 = -1)
Driver error was [2/145]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
Database error was:
Table './mythconverg/program' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
</snip>
To fix it, I simply had to login to the database, ‘use mythconverg;’, and issue the command ‘repair table program;’. As noted below, make sure you see those semicolons. Simple.
I don’t know what this movie is, but it has a really good freerunning scene in it:
A friend made me a CD a few weeks ago and included a sublime rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World, but he didn’t know who the artist was. I heard the same song on a commercial for Rice Krispies today while watching CNN. I quickly went to my computer and used Google to dispatch a query through the tubes of The Internet which led me to this Yahoo! Answers page that solved the mystery. Apparently the song was also featured in 50 First Dates.
The song is by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, who is certainly not who you’d expect if you hear the very ethereal nature of his rendition. Iz, made numerous albums in the style of his native Hawaii often advocating Hawaiian independence. His music features a lot of ukulele, much like Jake Shimabukuro, who has also grabbed my interest recently.
A friend made me a CD a few weeks ago and included a sublime rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World, but he didn’t know who the artist was. I heard the same song on a commercial for Rice Krispies today while watching CNN. I quickly went to my computer and used Google to dispatch a query through the tubes of The Internet which led me to this Yahoo! Answers page that solved the mystery. Apparently the song was also featured in 50 First Dates.
The song is by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, who is certainly not who you’d expect if you hear the very ethereal nature of his rendition. Iz, made numerous albums in the style of his native Hawaii often advocating Hawaiian independence. His music features a lot of ukulele, much like Jake Shimabukuro, who has also grabbed my interest recently.
Though about a year and a half old, this is a very good article (and presentation; scroll down) about the positive effect that piracy can have. Written by Mark Pesce, this is a case study of how Battlestar Galactica’s distribution via BitTorrent changed the viewership of that show; bringing it to Americans before the scheduled release and to Australia where it wasn’t set to be available at all. Further, he goes on to explore the ways that advertisers can still profit from this model that cuts out television networks who normally marry shows with advertisements.
We now live in a time where many people (myself included) don’t know or care when the shows they want to watch are broadcast or what channel they are one. If you simply get your TV from the internet, the channel and time simply don’t matter. Nor do the advertisements, which are normally snipped from interweb-released shows. Are we soon to see TV funded by product placement, layover placards and bugs?
I saw Borat this weekend and though I would say it was good, it feels like a stretch to make the character’s exploits into a full-length film. I think I’ll see Sacha Baron Cohen’s next movie when it comes out on DVD. Also, see this interesting piece on how Borat’s portrayal of Kazakhstan compares to the real nation.
