So in the first bit of good news lately, after four years as a part-timer, this Monday I start my full-time position at Rutgers as a Linux SysAdmin. Not really anything different - same office, same work, just another day a week and a pay bump (plus benefits and all that …

I just bought a “new” desktop - I was thinking of doing an insane AMD Phenom II x4 940 (quad-core 3.0GHz) box - but I happened to find a used machine from $WORK; a Dell Precision 470 workstation, dual Xeon Nocona 2.8GHz processors, 4GB RAM (takes up to 16GB). So …

Well, despite what’s been said elsewhere, it IS possible! It’s a bit error-ridden at first, but here is the procedure that I used to compile and install the PVR-150 patched LIRC 0.8.3-CVS.

First, Download the tarball mentioned in the Version 3 blog post at …