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Well, I seem to be doing pretty poorly at the whole “getting back into posting more regularly” thing… Ah well…

First things first I suppose, to update on my previous post, the server upgrades went quite well… I replaced the old 80GB drive with two 250GB SATA drives in a RAID0 configuration, so I now have a nice, happy .5 TB of space to play with. I also consolidated into the one box (which was originally just my web server) my MythTV backend and configured a shared folder that I can access from all my other computers to consolidate my files… All in all everything went pretty smoothly…

One thing still on my wishlist is finding an app that will serve content to my TiVo (be it MythTV recording, archived video files, etc.). I played with one application, TivoServer, that comes pretty close to doing exactly what I want (it will index a directory or set of directories, publish itself to your TiVo as another TiVo that is accessible through the multiroom viewing option, and I believe even transcode content on the fly to the format the real TiVo is expecting), but currently it requires a “patched” TiVo, and I’m not quite sure I’m ready to tinker with that…

That upgrade sort of trickled down and resulted in some upgrades to my other computers… The quick recap is that I pulled the 160 GB drive from my desktop and replaced it with the old 80 GB drive from the server. That then got set up to dual boot my old WinXP desktop as well as Ubuntu 6.10. Happily, I can say that I have not run Windows in my home in several weeks now and, frankly, I’m not missing it one bit…

Anyway, I then took the 160GB drive and put it in my TiVo, doubling my storage there… And finally, though not really part of the “trickle down”, I also upgraded the hard drive in my iBook to 120GB and put the old 60GB drive in a nice external enclosure…

Whew… ok, on to not so geeky matters… :)

I’m still training hard for the C’ville Marathon… Last weekend I had my 17 mile training run, and, I must say, it actually felt pretty good…

Well, as good as running for nearly 3 hours straight can feel… ;)

Amazingly, after a bit of a scare back around Christmas, my knees seem to be holding up pretty well. I actually didn’t have much soreness in them at all after this last run, which is hopefully a pretty good sign… I do seem to have a little shin splint action going on, but hopefully though the downtime between my next long run, along with the nice, shiny new running shoes I just picked up, will take care of that…

But yeah, so far so good… I’m just doing my best not to completely freak out about having to be able to run 26 miles in, let’s see, just under 2 months time…

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :)

Ah well, that’s enough updating for now… I probably should get back to work… ;)