Amelia

Some more photo's of baby Amelia for all to enjoy.

Yessss Come to the dark side!

She looks so happy here.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

Metal!

The minimalist approach

Well sometimes in any field of science there is an amount of trial and error. In my case we can call this computer science and in this particular case we have more error than trial.
It looks like whatever it was I did to the boot of this system has rendered it un-bootable. Not a total loss though, I've been looking forward to trying a minimal install of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
The reason for choosing the previous version of Ubuntu; more support for XBMC.
This is good for a few reasons.
- Smaller more efficient install and thus more space for content.
- More support for XBMC and libraries.
- I get to watch an old style ASCII installation screen, something I haven't seen in years.

While I continue this re-install enjoy a low quality cell phone picture of my system partition being setup.

Updates

So updates, updates, updates.
To be honest I haven't had much time to do much of anything lately as the baby is taking up a lot of time and the times when she is sleeping is time for me to catch some sleep as well.
I have managed to fiddle a little bit with the media centre and iron out a few more kinks. Boot time cut down by half, grub2 boot loader visibility has been eliminated so it makes the boot that much more cleaner.
All that's really left to do is to adjust one of the visible menu options in XBMC add an XBMC splash screen to Ubuntu 11. I haven't been able to get it to work, however I have a feeling that it's the resolution of the image that I'm using.
Jackie is out tomorrow night with her friends so if Amelia cooperates and decides she wants to sleep I'm going to get a few solid hours of tinkering in.
More information to come and hopefully if I can get to it, a demo video of the system starting up.
-Colin