Recent content by Iron Woode

I use the original Media Portal (version 1.x) not version 2. It can be tedious to setup but it works great. My media is all stored on my linux box (24 TB) running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It also runs my UT99 server, too.

not too bad today but the humidity is way too high. There is a Heat Warning starting Sunday here.

for my HTPC I use Media Portal for all my media management. It also works with my ancient but trusty MS remote control.

site was unreachable for 10 mins.

tonight I made a pork loin roast in my Instant Pot. When it was done I removed the roast and put in some chunks of carrots, 1 onion sliced in half and 4 potatoes quartered and cooked them for 5 mins. Wow! The roast is awesome and the veggies are great! :D

Lots of heat and humidity and tonight will be Thunderstorms.

Win 10 IoT LTSC uses an older version of win 10 - 21H2 I believe. Personally, I will just use my win 10 Pro until I decide to upgrade to 11 on my HTPC box. I have one more year of security updates thanks to MS, so I will worry about it later on. Win 11 also has an LTSC version that also uses...

it didn't turn out too well for musician Swan*. * an obscure 1970's movie reference.

Very sad indeed. :(

You better believe it is! This is the Stones at their peak, IMHO. An absolute masterpiece.

you are probably correct. Planned obsolescence.

I refuse to watch political channels. I have had my fill of politics. I subscribe to channels about science, movies, reddit stories, computer hardware, cooking, certain mystery and crime channels and misc stuff. I absolutely enjoy Mr. Nightmare. I also get a kick out of About Canada channels.

looks fine on Waterfox

I lost a long time member of my family: my Sanyo microwave oven. It has traveled with me from place to place and as dependable as the sun coming up up every morning. It was the first microwave ever I bought and I am sad. I bought it back in 1993 - a 1.3 cu.ft 900watt unit. You will be missed...

The heat is leaving but now we are getting very unstable weather. It's raining now. Yesterday, people were reporting funnel clouds in our area. They quickly dissipated and that is not unusual here. pic: