Since mythtv really wanted a capture card, today I went out and bought a PVR-250 and spent a good chunk of the rest of the night getting it working. Turns out the windows drivers contain a firmware image, and burried in the documentation is instructions on how to extract them. It was bad enough I only discovered the problem when I got to the point of reading through the source code to figure out what was going on and what these two random files it wanted to open actually did. Anyways, that sorta works now, although I have a few bugs to work out still. I also helped my dad install a second drive and a video card in his machine. Then watched The Ring - that's just a weird movie. Tonight should be interesting, as there's a bit of a party which has been going strong for about 3 hours now that spans both upstairs and just outside my room (yea, there are a lot of people). People are still ariving, and it will be going all night, or at least until they fall asleep... I can hear them over my music too. Oh well, probably better than what some kids are doing for an after-prom party. I just hope I'll be able to stay awake tomorrow.