Revision as of 15:52, 15 May 2006

Me

My Life

I am as of March 2006 an electrical engineer for Parsons in Boston, MA. I help design manufacturing facilities for pharmacuticals.

My Myth Contributions

I don't code, but I try to be active in bug and feature testing.

I developed a TV.com import perl script for adding archived shows to the Watch Recordings DB. I've received help from folks on the myth mailinglists in this project. http://www.jobs-khakis-chicks.com/MythTV/TVcomImport/

My Systems

I have Comcast cable here in Boston. I use QAM for my HD and have a DCT-2524 digital cable box. My area has heavy 5C DRM enabled making firewire capture pretty pointless.

Current MythTV Dedicated Back End

Running SVN, currently (and the last time I updated this...) fixes-95??

• Norco RPC-810 4U Rackmount Chassis (wonderful!!)
• MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
• AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000MHz HT Socket 939
• 512MB Corsair DDR400 RAM
• Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 EPS12V 550W Power Supply
• System Drive
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200 40GB
• Archive drive
• Recordings Drive RAID 10
  • 2x Maxtor 7L300R0 (ATA)
  • 2x Maxtor 7L300S0 (SATA)
• Tuners
  • 1x pcHDTV HD3000
  • 2x Avermedia A180 HDTV Tuner
  • Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE with DCT-2524 Digital Cablebox controlled via serial

Current MythTV Dedicated Front End 1

Running SVN, currently (and the last time I updated this...) fixes-95??

• Silverstone SST-LC16S-M Silver
• ECS KN1 Extreme Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
• AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000MHz HT Socket 939
• 1024MB Corsair DDR400 RAM
• GeForce FX5300 PCIX16
• SEAGATE ST340014A 40GB

I'm still figuring out how to organize my 3x320GB and 3x250GB archive drives. Right now the 250GB drives are RAID5'd, and I'd like to build another RAID5 array out of my 320GB drives, though two are full right now so I need figure out how I want to handle this, as i'd like to use more than 3 drives for this...

Current Desktop

Since I stole components from my old desktop to build my dedicated backend/dedicated frontend pairing, my "desktop" (really was a file/processing server before, now it will most likely become a bedroom frontend since I use my laptop for most things...)

• ECS K7S5A
• AthlonXP 1600+ (my really really old desktop that was sitting in a box...)
• Albatron Geforce FX5200 FX5200LP Low Profile Video Card
• Tekram DC390U3W U320 SCSI PCI64 Controller
  • Maxtor Atlas10K III U320 18GB - System Drive
  • 2x Seagate Cheatah 73LP 73.4GB - Data Drives
• Plextor PX-716SA
• 160GB ATA random stuff drive...