Hopefully I’m not the only person who has dozens of unfinished projects lying around both physically and virtually. I thought that maybe if I wrote some of them down I would actually get around to completing some of them:
- MythTV - despite seeing PVRs drop in price (sub £100 now), I would still like to get my MythTV box back up and running, this time with Mythbuntu rather than Knoppmyth. Sadly their website is down currently, which is a PITA
- Church office - there are 3 projects in the church office that need done:
- Fix the display machine - it’s got a weird bug, possibly hardware, that is causing it to crash when displaying for any length of time. Needs a bit of onsite PD at some point…
- Build the file server - I have a fileserver box sitting in the flat, which was originally set up with a nice software RAID, which I had hoped to turn into an iFolder server. Sadly iFolder hasn’t developed as quickly as I had hoped, and I’m worried about putting it on a production box. So I need to find another seamless backup solution for a mixed OS network.
- Upgrade the firewall - Smoothwall 2.0 is running fine, but Smoothwall 3.0 has been out for a while.
- Linkpot - I have a load of ideas for the completion of Linkpot (well - the next phase anyway) but just haven’t got around to it. What may happen here is that I build up a bigger team around the project to get it all done. Watch this space
- Church website - another half-finished Django project that needs some time and TLC.
And if I get all that done, there’s always:
- MythTV wiring and frontend - having a Myth backend is all well and good, and being able to watch content on my desktop is great. But the eventual aim is to get ethernet downstairs and a silent box of some sort into the TV so that it’s actually, well, “useful”
- I’d love to play a bit with Asterisk/Trixbox……
Of course - I have many household/family duties which undoubtedly come waaaay before any of this tinkerage. But here’s hoping that I can properly schedule myself to get these done.
mrBen
