I've had police-grade pepper spray on a chip, to win a bet. I don't think it's that hot, but it was the hottest thing I've ever eaten - and I regularly eat the hottest foods you can buy in south Texas. Fortunately I didn't have to stand next to it while it was sprayed, so none got in my nose or eyes.
The worst part was not getting any water for about half an hour. Even after the heat fades the taste is awful.
They wouldn't let us show Fine Living but NOT Food Network.
I see this as an illegal use of a monopoly. Fine Living as a product has a monopoly granted to it by copyright. No one else can take Fine Living and resell it without permission (and a contract) from the content owners. Yes, there may be other channels that offer shows on the same theme, but they are not the same thing.
And so the owners of the Fine Living monopoly force their customers to also buy Food Network if they wish to buy Fine Living. This is what I see as the illegal part. It's not illegal to have a monopoly - heck, copyright law grants it every day, even to this post to Slashdot. But it is illegal (or should be illegal) to use a monopoly to force your way into other markets, or to use your monopoly to expand your monopoly. That's how I see content providers' bundles.
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And if Microsoft had used the same port as internet explorer to find and retrieve this patch, would that have made it better? Or if they made this process run even if the Windows Update service had been disabled?
As far as we know, maybe that's what this patch did? It made it impossible to turn off Windows Update and masked the port used by the secret system.
No, I'm sorry, you are 100% absolutely without a doubt wrong.
involved a provision of federal law prohibiting the "assembly" or "modification" of equipment designed to intercept satellite signals. DirecTV maintained that the provision should cover anyone who works with equipment designed for interception of their signals, regardless of their motivation or whether any interception occurs.
That's what the law says and how DirectTV interpreted it. You are parroting DirectTV's now shown to be false argument.
The company began its crusade by raiding smart card device distributors to obtain their customer lists, then sent over 170,000 demand letters to customers and eventually filed more than 24,000 federal lawsuits against them. Because DirecTV made little effort to distinguish legal uses of smart card technology from illegal ones, EFF and the Cyberlaw Clinic received hundreds of calls and emails from panicked device purchasers. See? They claimed anyone using a smart card for any reason what trying to hack them.
The GPLers didn't strip the license. The code was available under either license. It still is - go back to the original source and get it for either license.
Beyond that, after listening to the more esoteric arguments being proposed, what I've learned from this is that BSD proponents only support their own licensing scheme when it is used by corporations to close the code.
You mean someone who buys a smart card writer/reader to develop a security system for their office, or to research voting systems, etc., but does not subscribe to cable or satellite, own a dish, or even watch TV, or own any box produced or distributed by DirectTV, is doing their work just to secretly hack cable? Because that's what this case was about - anyone who bought a smart card reader/writer anywhere in the country was threatened or taken to court by DirectTV.
I wasn't sure to mod you as troll for flamebait, or just plain clueless, so I figured a post would do more justice.
Nine million good ratings for Comedy Central it would be. From Wikipedia it is:
The original television airing of the episode drew 3.4 million viewers, most between the ages of 18 and 49. This popularity made the episode Comedy Central's highest-rated midseason premiere since the year 2000. However, the highest ratings for the tenth season belong to the season's premiere, "The Return of Chef", which drew more than 3.5 million viewers.
2007-08-29 21:10:39.789 VideoOutputXv Error: XvMC output requested, but is not supported by display. Xlib: extension "XVideo-MotionCompensation" missing on display ":0.0".
So that's it. I give up again. Three hours of work tonight, a lot of progress, but I have no ideas or suggestions to make this happen.
This was all done as a test on my desktop machine. Sadly, since the test failed, I don't think I'll risk buying the rest of my MythTV system. We'll probably end up with a DishNetwork HD receiver. =( That's not what I wanted, but sadly that's where I'm heading.
The addition to xorg.conf doesn't work. Xorg.0.log even says it's ignored, right below the line that says my "UseEvents" is ignored.
I see these around line 245 in Xorg.0.log: (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3... (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
But later in the same file I see this: (WW) NV(0): Option "UseEvents" is not used (WW) NV(0): Option "XvMCSurfaces" is not used (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension (a long list of extensions excluding the XVideo and XvMC extensions).
I do see the myth libraries in the output of ldconfig -v, so that looks good.
I have to recreate the QTDIR and PATH changes in my console window tonight. If I'm successful with the build, I'll figure out how to make these changes permanent later - I'm sure there's some.conf file somewhere that defines these on startup.
syd@test:~/Desktop/mythsource/mythtv-0.20.2$ sudo make install
It worked! My problem last night? I just ran "make && make install". Make works fine with just that, because it's all in my home directory, but "make install" needs sudo because it's copying stuff into places I don't own. I think that's what I did wrong.
12. Because this machine had previously run MythTV from the Ubuntu distribution, I thought that MySQL was already set up correctly. I must be mistaken, because mythtv-setup dumps a bunch of errors to the console window, then the GUI that appears (yes, it appears!) says that MythTV can't connect to its database. Ok, I need to set that up too, apparently.
13. Hmm. I get Incorrect database name '/home/syd/Desktop/mythsource/mythtv-0.20.2/databa se/mc.sql'. I see that file at that location. I'm not sure what's incorrect about it. Ahh ok, from reading on the internet here: http://www.astahost.com/cant-import-backup-sql-fil e-localhost-t15040.html it seems that the mc.sql isn't the database. That's just a script that probably points to a different database, and that one has a problem with its name. Let's look inside mc.sql... Nothing looks too weird there. So the name of the database is mythconverg, it's supposed to create it if it's missing, and yet it complains that the name is wrong... Adding the -v verbose tag to the command doesn't help; nothing new is printed. Ok, from the mythtv.org howto, I try: syd@test:~/Desktop/mythsource/mythtv-0.20.2/databa se$ mysql -u root -p mythconverg This seems to work, giving me a mysql> prompt. I'll try manually executing all of the commands in the script and see what happens. Ok I don't know. Every line executes on its own without problem, except the first one which I skipped because mysql seemed to indicate that the database did in fact exist. Is it done now?
It worked! mythtv-setup executes. Actually, there's nothing to set up; it still remembers all my setup and channels from when I had the package version installed.
14./var/lib/mythtv/recordings/nfslockfile.lock: Permission denied Unable to open lockfile! Be sure that '/var/lib/mythtv/recordings' exists and that both the directory and that file are writeable by this user. Ok, fair enough. I'm in group mythtv, but the group has read-only access, not write access, to the two files already in that folder. Let me fix that... (I wish I could figure out how to sudo in the GUI to use the right-click "Properties" to fix this.) I think chmod is the file, but it's --help is less than useful. There are some options, then: Each MODE is of the form `[ugoa]*([-+=]([rwxXst]*|[ugo]))+'. Gee, that tells me nothing. Google search saves me. syd@test:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings$ sudo chmod g+w * That did it.
15. Well, we're almost there. I have video, but no sound. I had sound with the pre-built version, and I have sound on the system now, so it must be my mythtv configuration. Audio output device is set to ALSA: default. Aha! From the console output: 2007-08-29 19:32:10.156 Audio output device is set to an ALSA device but ALSA support is not compiled in! 2007-08-29 19:32:10.156 NVP: Disabling Audio, reason is: Unable to create AudioOutput. It looks like my guide served me wrong with regard to what options to use. My only other options are dsp and dsp2. Let's see if they work. dsp worked!
Ok, I'm already getting fewer prebuffering pauses than with the prebuilt setup, b
I ran "make && make install" as the command, following the instructions of the guide I followed. That looked like it would execute both for me. I can try running "make install" by itself tonight.
I had to change the path variable a few times as noted in my saga. It's possible I left one out. I'll verify.
The format of ld.so.conf was a bit confusing when I looked at it last night. There was only one line, which said "include/.../*.conf". I added a second line per the MythTV.org howto, but my line just has the path "/usr/local/lib". Should I have added the "include" at the start of the line? ldconfig didn't return any errors, so I assumed I'd done it correctly.
PBS includes a time signal in the side information of their channel. Your VCR can identify the PBS channel during its station scan, and keeps itself updated from that.
Thank a public service for providing you with a... public service.
Ok, I think I found it in the MythTV.org howto. My google searches failed me, but I found it while looking for MythTV forums to post the question...
The sections on Shared-Library Requirements for MythTV and Environment Variables for MythTV seem to be what I was looking for, except that the instructions don't match what I see in Ubuntu, and it doesn't say at all how to permanently change these variables. At least I know from previous research that "export" will set them temporarily during a console session. I use QTDIR=/usr/share/qt4, and add/usr/include/qt4/Qt to the path along with anything else different between mine and what the page says, substituting/usr/share for/usr/lib...
8. Ok, I take that back. It still can't find qdom.h, even though the directory it's in is in my path... Maybe I should have qt3 installed, not qt4? The second file it can't find, qptrlist.h, is only in libqt3-headers according to packages.ubuntu.com. I switch from qt4 to qt3 using Synaptic, and redo all the PATH and QTDIR stuff to point to qt3 instead...
9. It's complaining about "No rule to make target" with something in a qt4 folder. I've run make distclean. I dunno. Let's just try starting over in a new version of the MythTV source extracted to a new location, to clear up the qt4 leftovers. That seems to have worked...
10./usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm. This is in the MythTV howto - says I need xfree86-devel. Didn't everyone move to X.org a few years ago, if I recall from slashdot? There's no package by that name anyway, so the howto isn't useful and it's back to google again. Installing libxxf86vm-dev...
11. It compiled! Ok... time to run mythtv-setup, as the instructions state... and all I get is "command not found".
That's it. I give up. I can spend all day reading the PCI Express specification and implement a beautiful product that meets every line, but I can't follow the tangled mess of crap that is compiling on Linux.
To follow up on my own comment, I (having nothing better to do) decided to try and build MythTV from source tonight.
I'm following the "Install MythTV" section of this page: www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1938
Note that I'm using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn instead of SuSe. I have also already installed some development tools to compile the utilities that came with my pchdtv 5500.
Problems: 1. Path to frontend.h is wrong. Quick file search is easy to fix. 2. Configure complains about lack of LAME MP3 library. Installing liblame... 3. Configure complains about lack of qmake. Installing libqt4... 4. Make errors out regarding lack of XvMClib.h (as the first of many errors). Installing libxvmc, then using "make distclean" and starting over... 5. Make errors out regarding lack of qdom.h (as the first of many errors). It should have been installed as part of libqt4-dev - I even see it on the list of installed files on that package in Synaptic - but even searching doesn't pull it up. I browse to where it's supposed to be... and it's there! If I search in the usr folder or deeper I find it, but searching from root and it's gone. Ok, from reading a web page, perhaps I need to set an environment variable? "export QTDIR=/usr/include/qt4", run "make distclean" and start over. Note this step took 45 minutes... 6. Hey, guess what, that didn't work. Make still can't find a stupid file installed on my computer. Genius. Let's try "export QTDIR=/usr/include/qt4/Qt" since I see qdom in both that folder and in the QtXml folder. Maybe it's not complaining that it can't find the file, but instead that it finds two copies of the file... 7. Nope, didn't work. Ok, that's two hours, all I can take of this tonight.
If anyone who actually reads this has a suggestion, I'm more than happy to hear it. In the mean time, I better understand those who say compiling in Linux is too difficult.
You didn't read my part about "maybe not in this case, no", or the GP's part about claiming no nonviolent crime (including copyright infringement, embezzlement, money laundering, etc.) should ever have jail time.
And if he's not rich or doesn't have any money? Just let them go? So that they can keep trying until they steal enough money to be rich, then we fine them?
Really. I'd like to see the U.S. government try to get at someone's offshore untraceable accounts. Likewise, I'd like to see the government stop someone from anonymously reaching those accounts and anonymously wiring money in small amounts back into Western Union or other such places in the United States. Heck, he can even have and use a fake ID for this if necessary, too. After all, that's just another non-violent crime so the government would not be able to punish him for that, either.
The newspaper is one product from one source. That's like asking to get and pay for ESPN, but not pay for the car races or anything aired from 1 - 5 AM. I don't expect that level of granularity, and would not be upset to never get it.
However, I do consider each channel to be a separate product. If I want to buy SciFi, I shouldn't be forced to buy Nickelodeon because the parent company forces my cable company to carry them at the same tier. The SciFi channel has a government-granted monopoly on its content due to copyright law. They shouldn't be able to leverage that monopoly to force the cable companies (and ultimate me) to pay for other products they sell.
I built my first ever MythTV setup this weekend, as a test. (I can receive HD from all the local networks - yay!) I chose Ubuntu because I am a hardware engineer, not a software engineer, and packages (specifically Debian based as that is all I've ever used) allow me to use Linux.
My biggest problem is that the MythTV distribution for Ubuntu is not built with XvMC support. My computer (Athlon 64 3000+, 1 GB, GeForce FX 5200) is perfectly suited to run as a dual back/front-end box if XvMC is enabled (according to many guides I've read). If it isn't enabled, the CPU is pegged at 100% and the signal skips - exactly what I see.
I followed online guides to get things set up as they are now, with everything working fine except the prebuffering errors. I haven't found a guide that adequately walks me through building MythTV from source, and I cannot do it on my own. Even if I could, I would be giving up the ability to upgrade with any level of ease, such as what I would need to do quickly to support SchedulesDirect.
So, I guess I can be in the category of "I tried that and couldn't get it to work". Perhaps there are other tweaks besides XvMC that these dedicated distros have done to alleviate the need. Or, perhaps one of these does actually enable this.
Anyone know if one of these dedicated distros enables XvMC in their prebuilt distribution?
Yup. In my country, we require all foreign companies to own and operate one of our death camps, as a condition of doing business. We send them political prisoners to be gassed.
It would cause chaos to allow the foreign relatives of our victims to sue these companies for wrongful death. After all, they have to follow our laws if they want to do business in our country.
I'd be happy to pay $1 per month per channel. I'd probably end up getting half as many channels as I do now while paying the same amount, but they'd be the [i]correct[/i] channels. I'd drop 30 channels I never watch and add 2 that I would.
Or, if they want to price the channels competitively, I'd be willing to work with that, too. I'll pay $4 per month for ESPN if it's so expensive, but I'm going to pick it up each August and drop it each January so I can just get college football. At $1/month for ESPN I wouldn't bother.
This doesn't make it hard for new channels to break in, either. Dish Network is always having "free preview weekends" for higher-tier cable and premium content. If you want to launch a new cable channel and get people interested, you might have to (*gasp*) give it away for free and rely only on your advertisement income or your startup capital before you gather a critical mass of viewers. Then, you can add a low monthly fee, and scale it up as your popularity continues to climb. Sounds fair to me.
So as long as a white-collar criminal stashes his money away where the government can't get at it, there should be no punishment?
Sorry, jail time is appropriate for some economic crimes. Maybe not in this case, no, but your blanket statement just doesn't work in all blanket cases.
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I've had police-grade pepper spray on a chip, to win a bet. I don't think it's that hot, but it was the hottest thing I've ever eaten - and I regularly eat the hottest foods you can buy in south Texas. Fortunately I didn't have to stand next to it while it was sprayed, so none got in my nose or eyes.
The worst part was not getting any water for about half an hour. Even after the heat fades the taste is awful.
Fifty people a day walking into Circuit City and buying something and the shareholders would wet their pants with glee.
They wouldn't let us show Fine Living but NOT Food Network.
I see this as an illegal use of a monopoly. Fine Living as a product has a monopoly granted to it by copyright. No one else can take Fine Living and resell it without permission (and a contract) from the content owners. Yes, there may be other channels that offer shows on the same theme, but they are not the same thing.
And so the owners of the Fine Living monopoly force their customers to also buy Food Network if they wish to buy Fine Living. This is what I see as the illegal part. It's not illegal to have a monopoly - heck, copyright law grants it every day, even to this post to Slashdot. But it is illegal (or should be illegal) to use a monopoly to force your way into other markets, or to use your monopoly to expand your monopoly. That's how I see content providers' bundles.
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And if Microsoft had used the same port as internet explorer to find and retrieve this patch, would that have made it better? Or if they made this process run even if the Windows Update service had been disabled?
As far as we know, maybe that's what this patch did? It made it impossible to turn off Windows Update and masked the port used by the secret system.
Without further research, we just don't know.
involved a provision of federal law prohibiting the "assembly" or "modification" of equipment designed to intercept satellite signals. DirecTV maintained that the provision should cover anyone who works with equipment designed for interception of their signals, regardless of their motivation or whether any interception occurs.
That's what the law says and how DirectTV interpreted it. You are parroting DirectTV's now shown to be false argument. The company began its crusade by raiding smart card device distributors to obtain their customer lists, then sent over 170,000 demand letters to customers and eventually filed more than 24,000 federal lawsuits against them. Because DirecTV made little effort to distinguish legal uses of smart card technology from illegal ones, EFF and the Cyberlaw Clinic received hundreds of calls and emails from panicked device purchasers. See? They claimed anyone using a smart card for any reason what trying to hack them.
This, too, was from the EFF's web site: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_11.php
The GPLers didn't strip the license. The code was available under either license. It still is - go back to the original source and get it for either license.
Beyond that, after listening to the more esoteric arguments being proposed, what I've learned from this is that BSD proponents only support their own licensing scheme when it is used by corporations to close the code.
You mean someone who buys a smart card writer/reader to develop a security system for their office, or to research voting systems, etc., but does not subscribe to cable or satellite, own a dish, or even watch TV, or own any box produced or distributed by DirectTV, is doing their work just to secretly hack cable? Because that's what this case was about - anyone who bought a smart card reader/writer anywhere in the country was threatened or taken to court by DirectTV.
I wasn't sure to mod you as troll for flamebait, or just plain clueless, so I figured a post would do more justice.
Hello? It sounds like the patch was applied to computers that had Windows Update set to not update.
No, it didn't work:
2007-08-29 21:10:39.789 VideoOutputXv Error: XvMC output requested, but is not supported by display.
Xlib: extension "XVideo-MotionCompensation" missing on display ":0.0".
So that's it. I give up again. Three hours of work tonight, a lot of progress, but I have no ideas or suggestions to make this happen.
This was all done as a test on my desktop machine. Sadly, since the test failed, I don't think I'll risk buying the rest of my MythTV system. We'll probably end up with a DishNetwork HD receiver. =( That's not what I wanted, but sadly that's where I'm heading.
The addition to xorg.conf doesn't work. Xorg.0.log even says it's ignored, right below the line that says my "UseEvents" is ignored.
...
W hatNext/Fesity_D /etc/X11/XvMCConfig with "libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1". Let's try that.
I see these around line 245 in Xorg.0.log:
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
But later in the same file I see this:
(WW) NV(0): Option "UseEvents" is not used
(WW) NV(0): Option "XvMCSurfaces" is not used
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension (a long list of extensions excluding the XVideo and XvMC extensions).
From:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/
It seems I need to replace the contents of
Continuing my work...
.conf file somewhere that defines these on startup.
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/nfslockfile.lock: Permission denied
I do see the myth libraries in the output of ldconfig -v, so that looks good.
I have to recreate the QTDIR and PATH changes in my console window tonight. If I'm successful with the build, I'll figure out how to make these changes permanent later - I'm sure there's some
syd@test:~/Desktop/mythsource/mythtv-0.20.2$ sudo make install
It worked! My problem last night? I just ran "make && make install". Make works fine with just that, because it's all in my home directory, but "make install" needs sudo because it's copying stuff into places I don't own. I think that's what I did wrong.
12. Because this machine had previously run MythTV from the Ubuntu distribution, I thought that MySQL was already set up correctly. I must be mistaken, because mythtv-setup dumps a bunch of errors to the console window, then the GUI that appears (yes, it appears!) says that MythTV can't connect to its database. Ok, I need to set that up too, apparently.
13. Hmm. I get Incorrect database name '/home/syd/Desktop/mythsource/mythtv-0.20.2/databa se/mc.sql'. I see that file at that location. I'm not sure what's incorrect about it. Ahh ok, from reading on the internet here:
http://www.astahost.com/cant-import-backup-sql-fil e-localhost-t15040.html
it seems that the mc.sql isn't the database. That's just a script that probably points to a different database, and that one has a problem with its name. Let's look inside mc.sql... Nothing looks too weird there. So the name of the database is mythconverg, it's supposed to create it if it's missing, and yet it complains that the name is wrong... Adding the -v verbose tag to the command doesn't help; nothing new is printed. Ok, from the mythtv.org howto, I try:
syd@test:~/Desktop/mythsource/mythtv-0.20.2/databa se$ mysql -u root -p mythconverg
This seems to work, giving me a mysql> prompt. I'll try manually executing all of the commands in the script and see what happens.
Ok I don't know. Every line executes on its own without problem, except the first one which I skipped because mysql seemed to indicate that the database did in fact exist. Is it done now?
It worked! mythtv-setup executes. Actually, there's nothing to set up; it still remembers all my setup and channels from when I had the package version installed.
14.
Unable to open lockfile!
Be sure that '/var/lib/mythtv/recordings' exists and that both
the directory and that file are writeable by this user.
Ok, fair enough. I'm in group mythtv, but the group has read-only access, not write access, to the two files already in that folder. Let me fix that... (I wish I could figure out how to sudo in the GUI to use the right-click "Properties" to fix this.) I think chmod is the file, but it's --help is less than useful. There are some options, then:
Each MODE is of the form `[ugoa]*([-+=]([rwxXst]*|[ugo]))+'.
Gee, that tells me nothing. Google search saves me.
syd@test:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings$ sudo chmod g+w *
That did it.
15. Well, we're almost there. I have video, but no sound. I had sound with the pre-built version, and I have sound on the system now, so it must be my mythtv configuration. Audio output device is set to ALSA: default. Aha! From the console output:
2007-08-29 19:32:10.156 Audio output device is set to an ALSA device but ALSA support is not compiled in!
2007-08-29 19:32:10.156 NVP: Disabling Audio, reason is: Unable to create AudioOutput.
It looks like my guide served me wrong with regard to what options to use. My only other options are dsp and dsp2. Let's see if they work.
dsp worked!
Ok, I'm already getting fewer prebuffering pauses than with the prebuilt setup, b
"include /.../*.conf"
/...something/*.conf". My fault for not previewing.
That was supposed to read "include
Thank you for the reply! It is appreciated.
/.../*.conf". I added a second line per the MythTV.org howto, but my line just has the path "/usr/local/lib". Should I have added the "include" at the start of the line? ldconfig didn't return any errors, so I assumed I'd done it correctly.
I ran "make && make install" as the command, following the instructions of the guide I followed. That looked like it would execute both for me. I can try running "make install" by itself tonight.
I had to change the path variable a few times as noted in my saga. It's possible I left one out. I'll verify.
The format of ld.so.conf was a bit confusing when I looked at it last night. There was only one line, which said "include
PBS includes a time signal in the side information of their channel. Your VCR can identify the PBS channel during its station scan, and keeps itself updated from that.
... public service.
Thank a public service for providing you with a
Ok, I think I found it in the MythTV.org howto. My google searches failed me, but I found it while looking for MythTV forums to post the question...
/usr/include/qt4/Qt to the path along with anything else different between mine and what the page says, substituting /usr/share for /usr/lib...
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm. This is in the MythTV howto - says I need xfree86-devel. Didn't everyone move to X.org a few years ago, if I recall from slashdot? There's no package by that name anyway, so the howto isn't useful and it's back to google again. Installing libxxf86vm-dev...
The sections on Shared-Library Requirements for MythTV and Environment Variables for MythTV seem to be what I was looking for, except that the instructions don't match what I see in Ubuntu, and it doesn't say at all how to permanently change these variables. At least I know from previous research that "export" will set them temporarily during a console session. I use QTDIR=/usr/share/qt4, and add
8. Ok, I take that back. It still can't find qdom.h, even though the directory it's in is in my path... Maybe I should have qt3 installed, not qt4? The second file it can't find, qptrlist.h, is only in libqt3-headers according to packages.ubuntu.com. I switch from qt4 to qt3 using Synaptic, and redo all the PATH and QTDIR stuff to point to qt3 instead...
9. It's complaining about "No rule to make target" with something in a qt4 folder. I've run make distclean. I dunno. Let's just try starting over in a new version of the MythTV source extracted to a new location, to clear up the qt4 leftovers. That seems to have worked...
10.
11. It compiled! Ok... time to run mythtv-setup, as the instructions state... and all I get is "command not found".
That's it. I give up. I can spend all day reading the PCI Express specification and implement a beautiful product that meets every line, but I can't follow the tangled mess of crap that is compiling on Linux.
To follow up on my own comment, I (having nothing better to do) decided to try and build MythTV from source tonight.
I'm following the "Install MythTV" section of this page:
www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1938
Note that I'm using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn instead of SuSe. I have also already installed some development tools to compile the utilities that came with my pchdtv 5500.
Problems:
1. Path to frontend.h is wrong. Quick file search is easy to fix.
2. Configure complains about lack of LAME MP3 library. Installing liblame...
3. Configure complains about lack of qmake. Installing libqt4...
4. Make errors out regarding lack of XvMClib.h (as the first of many errors). Installing libxvmc, then using "make distclean" and starting over...
5. Make errors out regarding lack of qdom.h (as the first of many errors). It should have been installed as part of libqt4-dev - I even see it on the list of installed files on that package in Synaptic - but even searching doesn't pull it up. I browse to where it's supposed to be... and it's there! If I search in the usr folder or deeper I find it, but searching from root and it's gone. Ok, from reading a web page, perhaps I need to set an environment variable? "export QTDIR=/usr/include/qt4", run "make distclean" and start over. Note this step took 45 minutes...
6. Hey, guess what, that didn't work. Make still can't find a stupid file installed on my computer. Genius. Let's try "export QTDIR=/usr/include/qt4/Qt" since I see qdom in both that folder and in the QtXml folder. Maybe it's not complaining that it can't find the file, but instead that it finds two copies of the file...
7. Nope, didn't work. Ok, that's two hours, all I can take of this tonight.
If anyone who actually reads this has a suggestion, I'm more than happy to hear it. In the mean time, I better understand those who say compiling in Linux is too difficult.
You didn't read my part about "maybe not in this case, no", or the GP's part about claiming no nonviolent crime (including copyright infringement, embezzlement, money laundering, etc.) should ever have jail time.
Way to argue the wrong point.
And if he's not rich or doesn't have any money? Just let them go? So that they can keep trying until they steal enough money to be rich, then we fine them?
Really. I'd like to see the U.S. government try to get at someone's offshore untraceable accounts. Likewise, I'd like to see the government stop someone from anonymously reaching those accounts and anonymously wiring money in small amounts back into Western Union or other such places in the United States. Heck, he can even have and use a fake ID for this if necessary, too. After all, that's just another non-violent crime so the government would not be able to punish him for that, either.
The newspaper is one product from one source. That's like asking to get and pay for ESPN, but not pay for the car races or anything aired from 1 - 5 AM. I don't expect that level of granularity, and would not be upset to never get it.
However, I do consider each channel to be a separate product. If I want to buy SciFi, I shouldn't be forced to buy Nickelodeon because the parent company forces my cable company to carry them at the same tier. The SciFi channel has a government-granted monopoly on its content due to copyright law. They shouldn't be able to leverage that monopoly to force the cable companies (and ultimate me) to pay for other products they sell.
I built my first ever MythTV setup this weekend, as a test. (I can receive HD from all the local networks - yay!) I chose Ubuntu because I am a hardware engineer, not a software engineer, and packages (specifically Debian based as that is all I've ever used) allow me to use Linux.
My biggest problem is that the MythTV distribution for Ubuntu is not built with XvMC support. My computer (Athlon 64 3000+, 1 GB, GeForce FX 5200) is perfectly suited to run as a dual back/front-end box if XvMC is enabled (according to many guides I've read). If it isn't enabled, the CPU is pegged at 100% and the signal skips - exactly what I see.
I followed online guides to get things set up as they are now, with everything working fine except the prebuffering errors. I haven't found a guide that adequately walks me through building MythTV from source, and I cannot do it on my own. Even if I could, I would be giving up the ability to upgrade with any level of ease, such as what I would need to do quickly to support SchedulesDirect.
So, I guess I can be in the category of "I tried that and couldn't get it to work". Perhaps there are other tweaks besides XvMC that these dedicated distros have done to alleviate the need. Or, perhaps one of these does actually enable this.
Anyone know if one of these dedicated distros enables XvMC in their prebuilt distribution?
Yup. In my country, we require all foreign companies to own and operate one of our death camps, as a condition of doing business. We send them political prisoners to be gassed.
It would cause chaos to allow the foreign relatives of our victims to sue these companies for wrongful death. After all, they have to follow our laws if they want to do business in our country.
I'd be happy to pay $1 per month per channel. I'd probably end up getting half as many channels as I do now while paying the same amount, but they'd be the [i]correct[/i] channels. I'd drop 30 channels I never watch and add 2 that I would.
Or, if they want to price the channels competitively, I'd be willing to work with that, too. I'll pay $4 per month for ESPN if it's so expensive, but I'm going to pick it up each August and drop it each January so I can just get college football. At $1/month for ESPN I wouldn't bother.
This doesn't make it hard for new channels to break in, either. Dish Network is always having "free preview weekends" for higher-tier cable and premium content. If you want to launch a new cable channel and get people interested, you might have to (*gasp*) give it away for free and rely only on your advertisement income or your startup capital before you gather a critical mass of viewers. Then, you can add a low monthly fee, and scale it up as your popularity continues to climb. Sounds fair to me.
So as long as a white-collar criminal stashes his money away where the government can't get at it, there should be no punishment?
Sorry, jail time is appropriate for some economic crimes. Maybe not in this case, no, but your blanket statement just doesn't work in all blanket cases.