MemeMachineGo!

Civilization IV: the Complete Edition, -- Civ4 with all three supplements, including the recent Colonization, is finally out. It's all on a single DVD for $37 at Amazon, and with no DRM, which should make it a lot easier to get it to work under Wine. I'm not buying anything with DRM anymore (not counting functionally non-existent DRM like DVDs') so I'd figured I'd never see the two Civ4 supplements I don't have. Way to actually give people what they want, 2K Games.

I'm holding off on purchasing it, though, 'cause I don't want the time hit right now.

The Linux Hauppauge HVR-2250 driver looks to be in usable condition, so I should be able to disassemble the Rube Goldberg arrangement by which I have a device attached to my serial port that sends IR remote control signals to a digital TV converter box to change channels so I can record things on my analog TV tuner card. (Yeah, I'm amazed it works at all, too.) I'll be able to record in HD, too, for all the good it'll do me, what with still chugging along with a non-HD CRT TV and an original Xbox for an HTPC.