Well, I agree that MythTV per se is a bit dorky, and it might be a chore for the non-technical user (or at least the user not too familiar with Linux) to install and configure. Yes, they do need to make the install / config process easier. And yes, I think I see now the point of using a dedicated distro.
I had no problems with the setup - but then I'm fairly familiar with the OS.
Hm, still, the average enthusiast should not find it too difficult. Sometimes the hardware might get tricky, but that's about it, is my guess.
I don't see what's the point of building a dedicated distro for MythTV. Why reinvent the wheel? Why not use a well-known, established distribution, and just create a software repository with MythTV? A dedicated distro may be here today, gone tomorrow, if it doesn't build a large enough community. That's not what I expect from the operating system that I'm gonna use on the MythTV server that I will build next month.
I think I'm just going to use CentOS or Ubuntu (the LTS edition - long-term support) and pull MythTV from one of the popular repositories.
"the portion of the world's Christians who are not Catholic are extremely worrying"
The Orthodox Christians (Eastern Europe, Greece, Armenia) are pretty close to the Catholics in many ways. The differences between the two are entirely superficial. And the Orthodox church is a pretty sizable chunk of the entire Christianity.
So, it's just a small minority of lunatics that create problems.
Well, other companies sue all the time. What's new in this situation is that SGI has been pretty much a "saint" - it didn't sue anyone at all for a long time. Now that they joined the club, it's headlines all of a sudden.
Chill out, this whole thing is not really newsworthy.
all of your competition can bring better products to the table
HP Superdome is plainly less capable, no matter how you compare it to SGI Altix. IBM is faster only in cluster mode, and that's just because they can build larger clusters. Plus, it's much harder to develop for the IBM which is very proprietary. SGI Altix is the fastest single-image system and it is, after all, a "plain Linux" machine that just happens to have a sh*tload of CPUs.
My only question to SGI is why didn't you start defending the patent earlier? "Because we thought we were financially stable" won't make for a good answer.
It is hard to fathom the ineptitude of the former upper management at SGI. "Bizzarely stupid" is probably a fair assesment. For a very long time, SGI was a company of brilliant, innovative geeks and utterly moronic upper management. Rick Beluzzo was the one who decided to stop pursuing the lawsuit against NVidia, a few years back. So, yes, they did start to defend themselves earlier, but for some bizarre reason they stopped doing it. BTW, Beluzzo was instrumental in "delivering" SGI into numerous financial problems.
At least now they have people who know business, in the upper seats.
This is not the same old SGI. The old inept upper management has been sent out. The exclusive focus on high-end expensive systems is gone. The graphics division (the "Graphics" in Silicon Graphics) is gone. The current Altix line of supercomputers is the best in the market, beats the HP SuperDome in performance numbers and beats the IBM stuff in ease of development. For the first time, SGI has a complete line of products, from 1024 CPU systems to "normal" x86 servers. No more Itanium-only line of products. No more exclusive focus on scientific, academic and government markets. They're also aggressively pushing their storage products, which are pretty capable.
Forget everything you know about SGI as a business, this is a different company. The only thing they have in common with the old Silicon Graphics is the high-peformance computing stuff, which is very good.
This is going to be an interesting story, stay tuned.
Actually, if you sift through the news archives, you'll realize that nowadays at SGI there's no one left from the old upper management team. The odds are actually overwhelming that the new team is better than the old one.;-)
The company is going through a major re-org. They will probably do things very differently after emerging from Ch 11. You could say that the "old ways" at SGI are indeed dying. But the company as a business entity is not. Chapter 11 does not equal a death sentence, it's often just a way of flipping the bird to the creditors - that's what most people don't realize.
This is just to get rid of debt and stuff like that. The people who actually own the company believe there's great potential and they seem determined to do all it takes to turn the company around. The current management is very different from the old one. It can be argued, and it has been argued before, that it was a succession of management mistakes which brought the company to its current situation. But the old mistakes seem to be a thing of the past now.
So, good engineering + bad management = financial difficulties. That's the past. The present: good engineering + good management. Stay tuned, there's more to this story than it seems.
Their stock traded below $1 before a couple times and they recovered. What the public doesn't know, though, is that they're taking serious steps to change course. The company has enough cash to survive for quite a while and they're moving in directions they never moved before. It is quite likely that by the next summer they'll be quite profitable again.
First off, it's not just a few communities, it's the leaders of the entire country that endorse those medieval concepts.
Second, it seems easy to see when others throw blanket statements at you ("US supports Intelligent Design") but very hard to see when your "side" is throwing blanket statements at the rest of the world ("the other countries are against freedom, so let's not give them any control over the Internet").
I'm pretty well connected on both sides of the pond (born in Europe, living in the US for quite a few years now) and if I were to make a comparison, it's currently the US which worries me from a freedom standpoint - it's on the verge of falling under a disguised theocratic dictatorship promoting ideas recovered from the history's garbage can.
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How much does it really matter to use compiler optimizations for HD? Do you have any numbers, benchmarks, etc.?
Just curious.
Fully agree. That's the best way. Build a dedicated machine, upgrade MythTV only when absolutely necessary. Like a DIY appliance.
Oh, I see.
Well, I agree that MythTV per se is a bit dorky, and it might be a chore for the non-technical user (or at least the user not too familiar with Linux) to install and configure. Yes, they do need to make the install / config process easier. And yes, I think I see now the point of using a dedicated distro.
I had no problems with the setup - but then I'm fairly familiar with the OS.
Hm, still, the average enthusiast should not find it too difficult. Sometimes the hardware might get tricky, but that's about it, is my guess.
I don't see what's the point of building a dedicated distro for MythTV. Why reinvent the wheel? Why not use a well-known, established distribution, and just create a software repository with MythTV?
A dedicated distro may be here today, gone tomorrow, if it doesn't build a large enough community. That's not what I expect from the operating system that I'm gonna use on the MythTV server that I will build next month.
I think I'm just going to use CentOS or Ubuntu (the LTS edition - long-term support) and pull MythTV from one of the popular repositories.
Awesome, I'd mod you up if I had any points.
"the portion of the world's Christians who are not Catholic are extremely worrying"
The Orthodox Christians (Eastern Europe, Greece, Armenia) are pretty close to the Catholics in many ways. The differences between the two are entirely superficial. And the Orthodox church is a pretty sizable chunk of the entire Christianity.
So, it's just a small minority of lunatics that create problems.
Well, other companies sue all the time. What's new in this situation is that SGI has been pretty much a "saint" - it didn't sue anyone at all for a long time. Now that they joined the club, it's headlines all of a sudden.
Chill out, this whole thing is not really newsworthy.
all of your competition can bring better products to the table
HP Superdome is plainly less capable, no matter how you compare it to SGI Altix.
IBM is faster only in cluster mode, and that's just because they can build larger clusters. Plus, it's much harder to develop for the IBM which is very proprietary. SGI Altix is the fastest single-image system and it is, after all, a "plain Linux" machine that just happens to have a sh*tload of CPUs.
My only question to SGI is why didn't you start defending the patent earlier? "Because we thought we were financially stable" won't make for a good answer.
It is hard to fathom the ineptitude of the former upper management at SGI. "Bizzarely stupid" is probably a fair assesment. For a very long time, SGI was a company of brilliant, innovative geeks and utterly moronic upper management.
Rick Beluzzo was the one who decided to stop pursuing the lawsuit against NVidia, a few years back. So, yes, they did start to defend themselves earlier, but for some bizarre reason they stopped doing it. BTW, Beluzzo was instrumental in "delivering" SGI into numerous financial problems.
At least now they have people who know business, in the upper seats.
This is not the same old SGI. The old inept upper management has been sent out. The exclusive focus on high-end expensive systems is gone. The graphics division (the "Graphics" in Silicon Graphics) is gone.
The current Altix line of supercomputers is the best in the market, beats the HP SuperDome in performance numbers and beats the IBM stuff in ease of development. For the first time, SGI has a complete line of products, from 1024 CPU systems to "normal" x86 servers. No more Itanium-only line of products.
No more exclusive focus on scientific, academic and government markets. They're also aggressively pushing their storage products, which are pretty capable.
Forget everything you know about SGI as a business, this is a different company. The only thing they have in common with the old Silicon Graphics is the high-peformance computing stuff, which is very good.
This is going to be an interesting story, stay tuned.
Agree, getting rid of OSS is a good thing.
;-)
I went to the Adobe Wish Form http://www.adobe.com/go/wish and said "please sign me up as a beta-tester for Flash 9 / Linux".
Actually, if you sift through the news archives, you'll realize that nowadays at SGI there's no one left from the old upper management team. The odds are actually overwhelming that the new team is better than the old one. ;-)
I stand corrected, now that I'm properly caffeinated and able to see things in the correct light. :-/
The company is going through a major re-org. They will probably do things very differently after emerging from Ch 11. You could say that the "old ways" at SGI are indeed dying. But the company as a business entity is not.
Chapter 11 does not equal a death sentence, it's often just a way of flipping the bird to the creditors - that's what most people don't realize.
I'm pretty sure there will be some kind of aluminum cases that one could purchase on-line, just big enough to hold an RFID passport.
Problem solved.
You obviously never lived under a communist regime.
This is just to get rid of debt and stuff like that. The people who actually own the company believe there's great potential and they seem determined to do all it takes to turn the company around.
The current management is very different from the old one. It can be argued, and it has been argued before, that it was a succession of management mistakes which brought the company to its current situation. But the old mistakes seem to be a thing of the past now.
So, good engineering + bad management = financial difficulties. That's the past.
The present: good engineering + good management.
Stay tuned, there's more to this story than it seems.
Another link with more info:
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http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/TobaccoMosaic
...is it designed in an intelligent fashion, or is it some randomly evolved scum? :-)
news at 11
Their stock traded below $1 before a couple times and they recovered.
What the public doesn't know, though, is that they're taking serious steps to change course. The company has enough cash to survive for quite a while and they're moving in directions they never moved before. It is quite likely that by the next summer they'll be quite profitable again.
First off, it's not just a few communities, it's the leaders of the entire country that endorse those medieval concepts.
Second, it seems easy to see when others throw blanket statements at you ("US supports Intelligent Design") but very hard to see when your "side" is throwing blanket statements at the rest of the world ("the other countries are against freedom, so let's not give them any control over the Internet").
Not atheist, but free from ideological constipation.
I'm pretty well connected on both sides of the pond (born in Europe, living in the US for quite a few years now) and if I were to make a comparison, it's currently the US which worries me from a freedom standpoint - it's on the verge of falling under a disguised theocratic dictatorship promoting ideas recovered from the history's garbage can.
insightful and to the point