I got up at about 11.30am, and I was just sitting around, mucking around on my laptop.

I got a message from my drummer mate, wanting to know what I was doing. I replied, and told him nothing.

I downloaded the latest mplayer source code out of cvs, hopefully with the ty audio support fixed.

While I waited for that, only a few meg, but will take a while on my crap internet connection, I went and put the washing on.

I came back, and continued waiting for the download, then went through and checked the file to do with the audio support had been updated.

I spent quite a bit of time reading through the source, and then I went and checked the washing, it was finished, so I hung the washing out.

After that, I came back, got more clothes, and went and put another load of washing on.

I came back inside, and I started compiling mplayer again. I've done this a stack of times, thinking that the audio problem was something I was causing with incorrect configuration.

While I waited, I got a call from the guy that owns the aircon business, that I used to work for. He was having problems sending email.

I worked out that he was trying to send mail through the incoming mail server (because he has a hosting account), instead of through his isp.

I told him how to fix it, he put the correct settings in, and then the email went out.

After I got off the phone, I noticed that I'd been sent a message. I read it, it was from my drummer mate, telling me that he was on his way. He'd actually sent it quite a while before, must have been when I was out hanging the washing out or something.

A couple of minutes later, my drummer mate turned up.

The mplayer compile was still going, should be finished in a minute, so I asked him to wait. The compile finished, I ran it up, and found that it did work, I was able to watch the ty files that I'd dragged out of the tivo. Groovy.

I packed up my laptop, and grabbed my bass guitar, and went and got in my mate's car.

We started heading to our mate's place. I was starving, so I asked my mate to go to McDonalds on the way.

We went there, we were going to go through the drive through, but my mate's window is broken, and he can't open it more than a crack, so we parked, and went in.

We ordered some food, and went and sat and ate, and then we kept going, and went to our mate's place.

We played the instruments for a while, and then I mucked around on my laptop for a bit, looking at tabs, and playing bits of songs, to play along with them.

The laptop battery ran out, after only 3 1/2 hours, hmm, maybe I need to get some power management stuff on my laptop, at least work out how I can shut the lid (so the screen goes off), and be able to open it again, without needing to reboot.

I shut the laptop down, and we sat and listened to the recordings we'd done (my drummer mate brings an old cassette recorder, with a crappy built in microphone. It's marginally better than nothing).

We packed up the stuff, and then left, we went to the supermarket on the way home. I bought some food, and then got dropped at home.

I went and got the washing in, and hung out the second load of washing I'd put on this morning.

I sat and mucked around on my laptop, and then made some cheese sandwiches, and ate, I was starving.

I decided to have another go at building the DRI graphics drivers, the stuff I'd checked out of cvs.

I didn't have much luck, it seemed like there were files missing, and then I found that I couldn't even load the kernel modules for some reason.

I wondered how long all my machines had been running, so I logged into everything, and checked the uptimes, they were all pretty good, around 3 months on everything.

About 1/2 hour later, while I was siting on the computer, watching tv, the power went off.

Hmm. It was pitch black. I was just trying to think of what to do, whether I try to feel around for the torch, or what, and about 10 seconds after going off, the power came back on, and everything started booting up again.

I then had to get the internet connection going again, this was a real pain, and it ended up taking me 20 minutes to get the connectivity sorted.

I had all sorts of issues, problems with routing tables, firewall configuration, ip addresses (stuff coming up before the dhcp server, like the tivo).

I got all that sorted, and then I extracted some recordings from the tivo (after rebooting it, so it would get it's IP address), on to my laptop.

I setup the xbox, I want to take it up to Maitland, to use for watching movies, and playing music etc. I put some ty files on to it, and found that the stuff recorded in "high" quality from the tivo, when watched off the xbox's hard drive, played perfectly.

When I tried streaming the recordings across samba though, it was a bit glitchy, but still watchable.

I continued pulling stuff off on to the laptop, queued up a whole bunch of stuff, and then I went to bed, watching some tv, and I fell asleep about 2.30am.