Notch8

I've been really enjoying Dreamhost, my current hosting service, after years of hosting my own content at home. But I wanted so badly to release my PDF Labels project yesterday, and came up short not because the codes not ready, but because I couldn't setup a bug tracking app to save my life. Trac or Collaboa would be ideal for me, but neither of their dependancies are met without installing seperate instances of ALL their depencancies. I'm sorry, but I'm to spoiled by Gentoo to be in that kind of depencancy hell. I may go ahead and get Trac up at some point, but for this project today, I've applied for Rubyforge and things should go up as soon as that gets approved.

I believe I’ve started something… last time I was up in Monrovia, Anna and I showed Mom Stepmania. I mentioned that it could be set up on THOR, the MythTV based PVR that I built for them. Setup was pretty easy, they are on MythTV 18.1 with Gentoo underneith. So I emerged Stepmania, copied the songs into /usr/share/games/stepmania (make sure you get the permisions right, group needs to be games) and had MythTV scan for games (on the frontend under Utilities / Setup – Setup – Media Setttings – Game Settings) and made the XML file gamelist.xml under /usr/games:

    <gamelist>
        <game>
                <name>Stepmania</name>
                <command>/usr/games/bin/stepmania</command>
                <genre>Dancing</genre>
                <year>2006</year>
        </game>
    </gamelist>

The dancepad from ToysRUs and a USB adapter from Fry’s where identified no problem. Go to Media Library – Play Games – All Games – PC – 2006 – Dancing – Stepmania. On the main Stepmania menu select Options, setup the dancepad keys under Config key/joy and Scan music. After that we where up and well…dancing. Very cool.