Set this up late last year, and just documenting now in case I forget, or if any of my legions of readers are curious.

Galleon is a open-source java client/server app that uses Tivo’s Home Media Engine system to allow all sorts of file and application sharing between a Tivo and other networked entities. It more or less works to transfer files between the main Linux fileserver and our TiVo (we have an old Series 2 with a 40G drive - I was an early adopter in 2003 and I’m too cheap to upgrade). The main steps in setting it up and my experience are as follows.

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Allow me to join the hordes who are saying “about time” to the announcement that Adobe will support Flash 10 for 64-bit Linux. Although it makes little practical difference it will be one less wart on the Linux desktop experience.

just found a new timetracker app at keeptempo.com, which purports to do nearly everything I could conceivably want a timetracker to do… the drawback being it is non-free and can’t be self-hosted.