I received a jury summons a few weeks ago, to be held tomorrow, but I called in today as instructed and was informed that it had been canceled and I was no longer needed. It’s actually kind of a shame; I was a bit curious about the whole process. Maybe I’ll just go sit in on some cases instead.
It was also a bit of a surprise that it had taken this long to get a summons (the first in my life), but I guess we just don’t have enough crime…
I recently upgraded my server to Ubuntu 9.10, and it finally fixed one thing that had been bugging me ever since I built this system: the audio drivers. The default drivers that came with Ubuntu wouldn’t properly set the line-in volume, so I had to go and get a newer version from Realtek’s site. But, every time there was a system update that refreshed the driver modules, I’d have to reinstall the newer drivers and reboot again. Fortunately, now the default drivers work perfectly fine as of this release, and I’ll hopefully never need to build them separately again.
It also updated MythTV, which was a bit of a surprise and I needed to go get a newer build of the OS X frontend. That took a while to get working because it would just suddenly stop running immediately after launching it, until I figured out that I had to run the main executable directly with a ‘-r’ option to reset which theme it wanted to use.
