Heh, you're right. That definitely did not include getting IR support working. That took a couple evenings and it's still pretty fragile, only working about 90% of the time.
I did plan out a pretty generic system, starting with an Asus PE-1 Vintage barebones that I maxed to 2 gigs of RAM. Nvidia GeForce 6600 for video. Hauppage PVR500 for tuners and mpeg encoding. A 320GB Seagate SATA HD. Soundblaster Audigy Le
As I said, in planning the box I went for solid stuff with good Linux support, and stayed away from the bleeding edge.
I'm running a Fedora Core 6 box in my living that runs mythtv full time and is serving me as general purpose linux box. It's working out very well for me, (though admittedly I'm a bachelor and have no wife in charge of my decor). Twinview with myth on the TV and computer stuff on the monitor. With mythweb running, it can't be beat.
It's easy to set up. "yum install mythtv-suite" installs -all- the myth packages including mythweb and such. Pretty minimal configuration involved. I'd say that starting with a blank box I'd just built, it took me about 4 hours to install Fedora and myth both from scratch.
Mind you, "expected" is relative given how many users regard their frequent crashes as normal operation for a PC.
Is Slashdot now purposely trying to be -utterly- useless when reporting on issues regarding Windows, or is this just an example of the editor's technical incompetence in admining Windows?
the laptop has helped her twelve-year-old son master critical professional skills like how to compile a PowerPoint presentation
So, we've got some junior high kid who can make great PowerPoint presentations but hasn't learned enough about anything to provide content to fill a PowerPoint presentation.
I smell a lucrative career in marketing in the making.
Getting bug reports on beta software is good. That's why it's released as beta.
Why is this front page, unless it's just the usual knee-jerk, let's-find-something-bad-to-say-about-Microsoft thing that makes Slashdot less than useful for info about anything about Microsoft.
Actually it's a damn good clue that it's discussing things that don't matter to you. Things you have no knowlege of. This, however, in no way implies that it doesn't matter to anyone else. I doubt that good jounalisitic practices involve checking with you to see if the subject is important to you.
"The author seems extremely happy about how everything just works out of the box."
Don't get me wrong. I think Linux can be an ideal laptop OS, but when the reviewers are shouting, "Huzzah! It works out of the box!", it's a sign of what still needs to be done.
I've spent some time getting Fedora working on laptops and have had a helluva lot of fun doing it. It's doable, certainly, but my idea of fun is certainly not that of the mainstream consumer (nor is yours, if you're reading this).
Linux as a consumer OS will have arrived when it's just assumed it should work out of the box.
But just looking at the efficiency misses the whole point of this. The point is secrecy. Any country sending 15 nukes against another will likely be found out before their nukes even exlode. The result, then, would probably be massive retaliation by other nuclear powers.
With this method, it can be done secretly. It was "The Wrath of God" that did it.
Just thought I'd mention that the ISCABBS is still alive and well. Though te web has chopped it down from it's heady days when it averaged over 1000 simultaneous logins, it still pushes 250 during the day.
bbs.isca.uiowa.edu
I'd love to travel about 50 Myears into the future to see what future archeologists (whatever they may look like) would make of of a platypus fossil. I'll bet they claim it's a fraud.
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I did plan out a pretty generic system, starting with an Asus PE-1 Vintage barebones that I maxed to 2 gigs of RAM.
Nvidia GeForce 6600 for video.
Hauppage PVR500 for tuners and mpeg encoding.
A 320GB Seagate SATA HD.
Soundblaster Audigy Le
As I said, in planning the box I went for solid stuff with good Linux support, and stayed away from the bleeding edge.
It's easy to set up. "yum install mythtv-suite" installs -all- the myth packages including mythweb and such. Pretty minimal configuration involved. I'd say that starting with a blank box I'd just built, it took me about 4 hours to install Fedora and myth both from scratch.
Is Slashdot now purposely trying to be -utterly- useless when reporting on issues regarding Windows, or is this just an example of the editor's technical incompetence in admining Windows?
So, we've got some junior high kid who can make great PowerPoint presentations but hasn't learned enough about anything to provide content to fill a PowerPoint presentation.
I smell a lucrative career in marketing in the making.
Yes, it's true. From now on no one will be allowed on a plane unless they are carrying a laptop computer.
Macbook is cheaper than a Dell
BWAHAHAHA!
$$$
Why is this front page, unless it's just the usual knee-jerk, let's-find-something-bad-to-say-about-Microsoft thing that makes Slashdot less than useful for info about anything about Microsoft.
Yeesh.
Actually it's a damn good clue that it's discussing things that don't matter to you. Things you have no knowlege of. This, however, in no way implies that it doesn't matter to anyone else. I doubt that good jounalisitic practices involve checking with you to see if the subject is important to you.
No. Apparently you mean "Why does this matter to Blakey Rat (99501". When did hjournalism 101 preach that only shit you care about is worth reporting?
It's Rosie, the Jetson's robot maid!
Firefox remembers all my gmail passwords. I don't know it's not remembering yours.
Anyone who has to reboot Windows during 8% of their sessions really needs to find someone who knows what they're doing to set up their box for them.
Windows (especially XP) is damned stable if set up right.
-ANY- OS is damned unstable if not set up right.
"The author seems extremely happy about how everything just works out of the box." Don't get me wrong. I think Linux can be an ideal laptop OS, but when the reviewers are shouting, "Huzzah! It works out of the box!", it's a sign of what still needs to be done. I've spent some time getting Fedora working on laptops and have had a helluva lot of fun doing it. It's doable, certainly, but my idea of fun is certainly not that of the mainstream consumer (nor is yours, if you're reading this). Linux as a consumer OS will have arrived when it's just assumed it should work out of the box.
A printer Fred Flinstone could love!
But just looking at the efficiency misses the whole point of this. The point is secrecy. Any country sending 15 nukes against another will likely be found out before their nukes even exlode. The result, then, would probably be massive retaliation by other nuclear powers. With this method, it can be done secretly. It was "The Wrath of God" that did it.
Om mane padme om.
Just thought I'd mention that the ISCABBS is still alive and well. Though te web has chopped it down from it's heady days when it averaged over 1000 simultaneous logins, it still pushes 250 during the day. bbs.isca.uiowa.edu
I'd love to travel about 50 Myears into the future to see what future archeologists (whatever they may look like) would make of of a platypus fossil. I'll bet they claim it's a fraud.