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I noticed that the Comedy Central web-site has no mention that I could find that they are owned by Viacom. There is a small mention buried in the FAQ that they are owned by MTV. I couldn’t find any mention on the MTV site that they are owned by Viacom other than the Jobs link that takes you to jobhuntweb.viacom.com.

I did a query on Google- “site:mtv.com viacom” which turned up 1000s of hits. But a bit of investigation shows that most of those only links pointing to those pages, it doesn’t actually say viacom on the MTV pages.

I wonder if these outfits are don’t want to be as associated with the entity biting that hand that has contributed to their growth lately. I think there is good evidence that the Daily Show and Colbert Report for example, two of Comedy Central’s key shows have benefited greatly from YouTube.

I’ve been noticing that the timestamps on posts here have been a bit wacky, and that the clock on this server was getting off. This server is currently running Fedora Core 6 on top of VMWare, and the clock kept slipping behind. After being puzzled about this for a few days I finally got around to searching for the issue and found an answer-

According to KB article son the VMware site, the Linux runs its clock off counting an interupt (rather than just reading the value from the RTC I guess?) With virtualization some of those interupts can get missed or else the speed at which the virtual machine sends the interupts can be configured differently from what the kernel expects.

The solution was to add this to my GRUB configuration file-
clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic

So the kernel definitions in /boot/grub/grub.conf look like-

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-28.9 ro root=/dev/hda2 clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic

As far as I can tell its all fixed now.

After the big non-issue from the whole Y2k hype, I’d been expecting to be fairly unaffected by the daylight savings time issue. Its not like being an hour off is that critical, and anyway I’m sure everyon is taking care of it, right?

The bad news is that Windows Media Center appears to be impacted and the result is all my TV programs are being recorded an hour off. I’ve tried running Windows Update, I’ve tried running a guide update and no luck! The guide looks like its right but the results are still bad.