Opportunistic scanning screwed my system

I had all my channels up and running perfectly in my Vista MC, but then some of them stopped working. Gah. I had a backup of my eHome directory but didn't know which files to look for at the time - I do now, but more on that later.

Doing a rescan for the missing channels did not work. Of course. Then I found an article on MS where they had a suggested solution for a problem scanning for additional services over DVB-T in Russia. They suggested to set another country and then rescan. Hm. It didn't say anything about Sweden, but I set up media center to scan for Denmark instead and the missing channels were magically found! Of course I was still missing a couple of other channels, but two more rescans found them. All channels are now back in place.

Next I downloaded Ian Dixons media center backup utility and made a backup of my settings. It turned out that channel info is in eHome\EPG\prefs\prefs.xml and recordings are in eHome\Recording\Recordings.xml. That was all that was needed to backup my channel settings. Hm.

Then, on to stop the nefarious opportunistic scanning that eats my channel info. Thanks to the alias push in a Swedish forum I found a solution. And here it is.

I still don't know exactly how to get my channels back with a channel scan, but since I now have a backup I'm good to go. At least until October 15 when the frequencies change here for DVB-T...

Updated Google Reader skin

As I told you a while back there's a way to get Google Reader pretty. Unfortunately the markup has changed and the skin broke. The updated version does not fix the problems since the search box was introduced, but Hicks knows about it and might come out with an update. Here's hoping he does.

My new E3c:s have finally arrived

As I mentioned a while back my Shure E3c's broke. It took forever to get a replacement pair, but now they're finally here.

I didn't realise how much I had been missing them until I started using them today. The sound is just brilliant. But the build quality does leave something to be desired. This is my third pair. Kudos to Shure for great customer support though, they've sent me a new pair free of charge both times the phones broke down.

Time to get a new iPod

I've had the 40G 4th generation iPod for a couple of years now and been quite happy with it. Got an iPod nano with the Nike+ kit a couple of months ago which I'm also happy with. (And my wife had the 1st generation Shuffle before she started using the Nano.)

I've been wanting to replace the 40G iPod, but the step up to the 5G (or 5.5G) hasn't really been big enough. Enter iPod Touch.

At 8mm its thinner than my W880 (which is thin) and it has a beautiful screen. The bashers have been going on about the small storage space, but I don't really lug around my entire music collection anyway. The 40G has never been large enough for all my music so I'm kinda used to picking parts of my collection. And when I started using the 4G nano I became even more used to it.

Now I'll just have to wait for the release in the end of September, which should be easy considering I've been holding out for a new iPod for more than a year now. But now its getting close. Oh, I'm getting the 16G version if you're curious.