I've been in denial for a few weeks now. The signs looked ominous and the data was discomforting, but still I clung to the hope that things would start to go in a positive direction again. But, now, after the events of the past few days, I think it's finally time to admit that it's over.
My home-brew TiVo is dead.
(What? You thought I was talking about something else?)
I "called it" at 12:46pm on May 24. Cause of death: hard drive failure. *Sniff*. The MythTV-based DVR lasted exactly three years, as one of the first things it recorded was the Champions League Final of 2005. It blew out just before it could record this year's final, and two weeks of recovery efforts ended in failure.
Ah, well, I'll have to buy a new hard drive. I think I'll go with Ubuntu instead of Fedora for the Linux distro this time around, as Ubuntu seems to be the new standard. Hopefully this installation will be easier than the first go-round.
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