Why would Microsoft care about those? Depending upon whether it was just Windows, Windows and Works, or Windows and Office, Microsoft got between $50 and $500 out of you for the purchase of their product. The fact that you will never use it just means that they have no ongoing expenses related to support of that product.
Granted they didn't really have that ongoing expense anyway, as they push ongoing support of products sold with a computer off onto the company that sold you the computer, but that's a different matter.
Haven't got the money for it yet, but I personally prefer the idea of calling the dealer and having them unlock the car remotely if I make a mistake and lock my keys in the car.
That or some other after market security company. Just thinking it would be handy if I had ADT if they could offer this as an added service.
Locking myself out of my car has not been a problem lately, not since someone poped the passenger door lock so that anyon can unlock the door by jigling the lock.
You might be comfortable with the 'Magic Wallet' 'As seen on TV'. A couple of pieces of leather connectd with some elastic. Open one way, put your cards in place. Open the other, elastic is holding down the cards.
If you want the cards continuously visiable, you might pick up some lanyard sleeves at Ofice Depot, and just staple or fuse a couple together, then use them. If you do it correctly, you can move it to a lanyard should you ever need to keep an ID visiable. If you need to keep things from bending, you could cut up a CD spindle top, sand off the surfaces, and use that as a support between things.
Perhaps not, but I know of more than one who has been in a job where getting membership to a gym was simple, even if the only time that said geek went to the gym was to sign up.
In the center, drivers licence. inserted holding the wallet with the 'openings' to the right, face up.
In the third above it, my personal credit card. Behind that Health Benifits card (ok, I have benifits from work..) Car maintenace/oil company loyalty card, and auto Insurance card. Behind that pics I have printed of my dogs, as well as a loyalty card for a coffee shop I frequent.
Standard wallet photo flip with pictures of family floats in front of my DL in the middle, and floats down. In the lower third I keep my business credit card, loyatly cards for B&N, Waldenbooks, GNC, Suncoast, AMC Theatres, and my library card.
That's about it. No cash in the wallet. That goes into a small notebook where I keep track of where I am spending the bills. (As much as I would like to do that on my PDA, I have not found an app I Like for doing that.)
Just pulled a few cards out of the wallet that really don't need to be there any more. SSN card goes into the safe pending my needing it for proof of elegibility to work.
Where I work, we also have a wide variety of systems that we have to log into, some daily, some weekly, some monthly, and some a couple of times a year. As an example of the daily stuff, I have to log into the PC (obviously) our ticketing system, a database (several times actually, don't ask) OpenView, a couple of other monitoring apps, as well as sevral pieces of hardware that depending upon their type have different passwords and different rules for passwords. There are even situations where a single device type uses different passwords depending upon where it is in our network. (On top of each requiring two different passwords, one to access, the second to manage.)
Corporate rules are that you are not allowed to write down passwords. If you forget a password for a device, see your lead. If you forget a password for your own accounts, you may be able to get them reset by the corporate help desk. Additionally it seems that no-one has been able to standardize on a single password philosophy. Some devices require 6-8 characters, alpha-num, Others max out at 7 characters. A couple require 6 or more, but requires at least one 'special' character [`~!@#$%^&*()_+=-{}|\":;'?>,./] as well as at least one number.
All passwords are changed at least twice a year, account passwords are required to be changed at least 4 times a year, but different systems have different schedules, including different durations, (Mainframe every 60 days, unix boxes not less than 30 days, nor more than 60 days, windows every 60 days with a 14 day notification period.
So, a few of us have dreamed of a viable single signon solution. I might even use substandard tools if they still allowed me to get my job done, and would take care of the signons for me.
I can handle a lot of devices with expect scripts, however even there some of the devices are visiable only from different system than my own, which means that the expect script would have to handle logging into another system, then from there connect to a second, and possibly third system. There are some changes going on in the system regarding how to access these devices as well, so an expect script would have to be able to be modified for all users to handle those changes.
Note that third party authentication is used in some cases. I have web pages that are authenticating to that database I mentioned earlier, but only in the sense that you provide the same account and password, not checking to see if you are already approved.
Most, if not all, of this could be 'automated" or handled by some of the off the shelf Single Sign On utilities, or even with Kerberose, except for that minor quible over password philosophy. The quible over password philosophy is a symptom of a greater disorder, which is that there are too many people who think that their system requires a different security level than everyone else in the enterprise.
As a result it is going to require direction from the very top of the company to get everyone on the same sheet of music. And that direction is probably going to have to advise people who think that they should have their own security systems in place that they need to get on board the new policy, or they can say goodby to their paycheck and someone else will be doing their job.
On thing to consider is that it is the very rare app that is out there that requires it's own signon that does not have a competitior (possibly less feature full) that does support a single sign on.
Yes you are going to have people complaining that the new tool does not have this or that specific feature. Telling them that you are going to file a bug report with the developers, may not satisfy them. You may have to support a legacy application or two until that feature is included. You may even have to look for another tool entirely.
It won't be cheap. Even if every tool you end up using is free, or open source, you are still going to spend time and money getting them set up, testing them, making sure that they all work well through password changes, or other authentication updates.
Samuel Clemens started Huck Finn, got to a point where he wasn't sure what he wanted to do story wise, and put the manuscript on the shelf to revisit it some number of years later. Should the copyright on that work have started when he started the book, when he paused the book, or when he finished the book?
If an author puts a manuscript on the shelf for some odd number of years, say perhaps the lenght of a copyright lifetime, then what incentive does he have towards finishing the work if the copyright is tied to start of a work's creation? If you wait till the end of it's creation, and while you have the manuscript shelved, someone reads and copies a large portion of the work into their own material, what protections does the author have in the interim?
Tying the copyright to the lifetime of the creator of the work protects the work for the author, and gives the author incentive to complete and publish the work. The author isn't going to get paid for manuscripts they haven't released to be published.
The only variation on this I would accept would be the declaration of specific unpublished works as being transfered to a family member in the hopes that it would enrich their lives with it being published after the author's death. Once a work has been published, copyright may not be transfered to anyone, though it may be temporarily assigned to a publisher.
The stipulation is that the work goes into the public domain after the copyright holder dies.
As to the 'value' of the copyright being greater for the 20 year old than the 80 year old, that only applies if the copyright has value outside of the lifetime of the holder. The 20 year old may die in a car crash tomorrow, and the 80 year old may live to 120 for all you know.
Just a minor quible, Digital TV does not solve any problems you as a specific consumer has. It very well may provide solutions that other consumers may be seeing.
When it comes down to it, the arguments you have provided can very easily be described as being valid for Sattelite DBS TV, or even Cable TV. And that's just in the TV realm.
When it comes to 'books', the argument could have been made that the printing press did not provide any solutions to consumers of books that was not already being supported by monks making copies by hand.
One thing that DigitalTV can provide that analog can not is the ability to use the same bandwidth to broadcast as much as 4 times the same volume of content. That is not at a benifit to the producers of content. The observation that broadcasters will self limit this ability to only broadcast the same type of material they currently do, in HD rather than four seprate standard definition feeds, is an observation of a possiblity.
I tend to agree that there is not enough material in DigitalTV to give me an incentive to switch at the moment. I won't make the claim that there never will be enough.
I still buy and read books. I go to movies, and Renisanse Festivals. I buy magazines, and listen to the radio in my car.
Nope. Copyrights should be good for the lifetime of the artist who creates the work, and requires a specific delcaration of assignment of rights to allow a corporation to make use of that copyright for the lifetime of the artist, or some shorter period of time, with the rights reverting to the artist.
An artist who would like their works to be made publicly available over the internet would have to publish a list specifying what works are available.
Yes, there will still be problems, copyright violators, and even people who will insist it is their right to make copies of any and all possible works, regardless of the copyright holder's opinion.
It is an even worse analogy than that. The cause of the resistance is not the flat face of the surface, but the flat back of the surface causing turbulance, and drag.
Put a cone on the back of whatever you are trying to push through the air, and the resistance will be significantly lower.
Both are actually the same question. Your body is not structured to "swim" in air. Swiming in air is what we call flying. In all cases forward motion is derived by using force to put stuff that was in front of you, behind you, and the reaction is you going forward.
You are not designed to "float" or "fly" in material as lightly viscous as our atmosphere. The relative density between us, and our lack of a structure designed to produce lift are working against us.
That's not to say that you can't go a long way towards solving this problem. The suits some skydivers use, with pannels betwen their legs, and from legs to arms, allow them to glide a lot further, and have a different perceived terminal velocity than skydivers without these pannels.
Our largest failing is that we do not have a wishbone to hang the necesary musculature on for us to convert our arms to wings. This is true even if our bones were filled with air rather than marrow. (side effect, unless the marrow is given a new portion of the body to reside in, our immune system would have some serious issues.)
... with a Garmin GPS receiver, and a Cell phone, I am looking for a bit of hardware to interconnect them so that if the bike takes off it will call me and I can report it's tracks to the local constabulatory.
Of course with my luck the thief will think the cell phone and GPS are a more attractive theft item than the Bke...
If you paid attention to the FA, you might have noticed that what McBride is accusing IBM or other Linux developers of doing, includes changing the variable names to hide the 'stolen' code, and that the software that the Dr. used takes this possibility into consideration, and would find such lines if they existed.
The basic result is that no such lines existed that can be demonstrated to be non-literal copying, or literal copying.
As described elsewhere, my front end is running in an AnTec Minuet case. Quiet enough that I do not hear it in my living room.
My back end is running in another AnTec case, don't recall the model right now. In any case it is far quieter than my desktop computer. Even with extra case fans. That is partly done by running the fans at a lower voltage, but it helps to have fans with good bearings to begin with.
As I understand it, this may not be entirely true, I don't think that what you are asking for is available.
KnoppMyth can run a front end from the CD, so you don't need to touch the hard drive for watching what has been recorded, but it does not include a back end, so your recordings will have to be on a seprate system.
You can set up a back end system stand alone sitting in the basement, or wherever it is convienent to grab your video feed. Basic specs for a 2 card capture system would be a 1 gig or faster processor, motherboard with 2 pci slots, as much hard drive space as you can afford, and 256 meg of memory. You may be able to do with 128 meg of memroy, but 256 will give you some head room should you decide to expand later.
You can use the same KnoppMyth CD that you are going to use for your front end to build the back end, as you are going to want the software running from the hard disk for that. If you use multiple hard drives you will probably want to learn something about lvm as that is not something that is set up by default.
Hauppauge PVR250 cards are what I recommend as a capture card, and they capture to about 1.1 Gig per half hour of video. (Yes they do go into the back end system.)
The capute cards vary in price but figure around $100 to $150 depending upon who you buy them from.
Hope that helps. Getting the back end running is a geeky experience, so if you are not interested in doing that, then the CD based PVR idea is not going to be much help.
My front end consists of a motherboard with built in nvidia s-video out, built in sound, built in network adapter, and a quiet (AnandTech Minuet) case and power supply. It's quieter by far than a vcr in playback, and quieter than several DVD players I have owned. Additionally, the front end can be put together for under $200 with new off the shelf equipment, the most expensive part in my setup being the case.
I seem to recall there being instructions as well for using an Xbox as a front end, though I have not been looking for those. From one of the Wiki links you can do a search for Xbox if that is of interest to you, or search elsewhere as well.
A little over a year ago I was using Freevo as a video tuner and programing lister. I was never able to get it to record any programs at all.
My first few attempts at MythTV were not even that good.
Once I found KnoppMyth, and installed MythTV through that distribution, I was able to do pretty much everything I was hoping Freevo would allow me to do, and then some.
As to whether Freevo is in better shape than I experienced when I was trying it out, I can't say. I would presume it is. The problem I found was that it expected me to put together the command string for getting the recording software to record a video stream. My presumption is that the software does a better job of setting this up for the user today than it did a year ago.
Others may have different experiences.
The down side of having a working MythTV setup is that I don't spend much time trying out alternative solutions.
One of the FAQ questions for KnoppMyth is if they will ever build a CD where the server can be run from the CD, rather than having to install it to the HD.
I think the logic is that you could then have pre-defined partitions set up to be the hosts for the database, and the video capture files. Optionally the entire hard disk could be used for program information and recorded video.
With sufficient system memory, you could do what some ISO distributions do, and load everthing to memory, and you would even have the cd/dvd drive available for use.
From what I understand there is no current intent to implement this solution.
Because it wasn't released until after the freeze on updates for this release of Mandrake perhaps?
Just because something has a new version out doesn't mean that people putting together a distribution are going to alter the package contents to add it. Gnome 2.8 is out too. It's not in Mandrake 10.1 either. Why not? Because 2.8 was released yesterday (or this week) the freeze for 10.1 happened several weeks ago, about the time that 10.1Beta1 came out I am pretty sure.
It kind of depends upon whether you think supporting Mandrake is a good idea, and whether you think that the OS is worth paying someone to continue working on their favorite distribution.
I have been a Club member in the past, and probably will be again. Asside from the default USB drivers not supporting the Via USB 2.0 chips, easily fixable by replacing the usb-uhci with huci-ohc (or something like that), I have had no significant problems with the 10.1rc1 package.
If you think that it is worth purchasing, to the point where you would pick up a copy at your local computer superstore whenever they get around to carrying it, joining the club gets your money to the developers at a much higher percentage of what you spend.
There are other advantages as well, which you can read on their web page if it really interests you. If not, then the above probably won't be of much interest either.
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Why would Microsoft care about those? Depending upon whether it was just Windows, Windows and Works, or Windows and Office, Microsoft got between $50 and $500 out of you for the purchase of their product. The fact that you will never use it just means that they have no ongoing expenses related to support of that product.
Granted they didn't really have that ongoing expense anyway, as they push ongoing support of products sold with a computer off onto the company that sold you the computer, but that's a different matter.
-Rusty
Haven't got the money for it yet, but I personally prefer the idea of calling the dealer and having them unlock the car remotely if I make a mistake and lock my keys in the car.
That or some other after market security company. Just thinking it would be handy if I had ADT if they could offer this as an added service.
Locking myself out of my car has not been a problem lately, not since someone poped the passenger door lock so that anyon can unlock the door by jigling the lock.
-Rusty
You might be comfortable with the 'Magic Wallet' 'As seen on TV'. A couple of pieces of leather connectd with some elastic. Open one way, put your cards in place. Open the other, elastic is holding down the cards.
If you want the cards continuously visiable, you might pick up some lanyard sleeves at Ofice Depot, and just staple or fuse a couple together, then use them. If you do it correctly, you can move it to a lanyard should you ever need to keep an ID visiable. If you need to keep things from bending, you could cut up a CD spindle top, sand off the surfaces, and use that as a support between things.
Enjoy...
-Rusty
Perhaps not, but I know of more than one who has been in a job where getting membership to a gym was simple, even if the only time that said geek went to the gym was to sign up.
In the center, drivers licence. inserted holding the wallet with the 'openings' to the right, face up.
In the third above it, my personal credit card. Behind that Health Benifits card (ok, I have benifits from work..) Car maintenace/oil company loyalty card, and auto Insurance card. Behind that pics I have printed of my dogs, as well as a loyalty card for a coffee shop I frequent.
Standard wallet photo flip with pictures of family floats in front of my DL in the middle, and floats down. In the lower third I keep my business credit card, loyatly cards for B&N, Waldenbooks, GNC, Suncoast, AMC Theatres, and my library card.
That's about it. No cash in the wallet. That goes into a small notebook where I keep track of where I am spending the bills. (As much as I would like to do that on my PDA, I have not found an app I Like for doing that.)
Just pulled a few cards out of the wallet that really don't need to be there any more. SSN card goes into the safe pending my needing it for proof of elegibility to work.
-Rusty
Where I work, we also have a wide variety of systems that we have to log into, some daily, some weekly, some monthly, and some a couple of times a year. As an example of the daily stuff, I have to log into the PC (obviously) our ticketing system, a database (several times actually, don't ask) OpenView, a couple of other monitoring apps, as well as sevral pieces of hardware that depending upon their type have different passwords and different rules for passwords. There are even situations where a single device type uses different passwords depending upon where it is in our network. (On top of each requiring two different passwords, one to access, the second to manage.)
Corporate rules are that you are not allowed to write down passwords. If you forget a password for a device, see your lead. If you forget a password for your own accounts, you may be able to get them reset by the corporate help desk. Additionally it seems that no-one has been able to standardize on a single password philosophy. Some devices require 6-8 characters, alpha-num, Others max out at 7 characters. A couple require 6 or more, but requires at least one 'special' character [`~!@#$%^&*()_+=-{}|\":;'?>,./] as well as at least one number.
All passwords are changed at least twice a year, account passwords are required to be changed at least 4 times a year, but different systems have different schedules, including different durations, (Mainframe every 60 days, unix boxes not less than 30 days, nor more than 60 days, windows every 60 days with a 14 day notification period.
So, a few of us have dreamed of a viable single signon solution. I might even use substandard tools if they still allowed me to get my job done, and would take care of the signons for me.
I can handle a lot of devices with expect scripts, however even there some of the devices are visiable only from different system than my own, which means that the expect script would have to handle logging into another system, then from there connect to a second, and possibly third system. There are some changes going on in the system regarding how to access these devices as well, so an expect script would have to be able to be modified for all users to handle those changes.
Note that third party authentication is used in some cases. I have web pages that are authenticating to that database I mentioned earlier, but only in the sense that you provide the same account and password, not checking to see if you are already approved.
Most, if not all, of this could be 'automated" or handled by some of the off the shelf Single Sign On utilities, or even with Kerberose, except for that minor quible over password philosophy. The quible over password philosophy is a symptom of a greater disorder, which is that there are too many people who think that their system requires a different security level than everyone else in the enterprise.
As a result it is going to require direction from the very top of the company to get everyone on the same sheet of music. And that direction is probably going to have to advise people who think that they should have their own security systems in place that they need to get on board the new policy, or they can say goodby to their paycheck and someone else will be doing their job.
On thing to consider is that it is the very rare app that is out there that requires it's own signon that does not have a competitior (possibly less feature full) that does support a single sign on.
Yes you are going to have people complaining that the new tool does not have this or that specific feature. Telling them that you are going to file a bug report with the developers, may not satisfy them. You may have to support a legacy application or two until that feature is included. You may even have to look for another tool entirely.
It won't be cheap. Even if every tool you end up using is free, or open source, you are still going to spend time and money getting them set up, testing them, making sure that they all work well through password changes, or other authentication updates.
Good luck.
-Rusty
New here arn't you...
The US press considers judgements that are not in favor of copyright holders to not be news. (At least all together too frequently.)
Rusty
Actually, law says that copyright starts with the creation of the work being under copyrigh.
Samuel Clemens started Huck Finn, got to a point where he wasn't sure what he wanted to do story wise, and put the manuscript on the shelf to revisit it some number of years later. Should the copyright on that work have started when he started the book, when he paused the book, or when he finished the book?
If an author puts a manuscript on the shelf for some odd number of years, say perhaps the lenght of a copyright lifetime, then what incentive does he have towards finishing the work if the copyright is tied to start of a work's creation? If you wait till the end of it's creation, and while you have the manuscript shelved, someone reads and copies a large portion of the work into their own material, what protections does the author have in the interim?
Tying the copyright to the lifetime of the creator of the work protects the work for the author, and gives the author incentive to complete and publish the work. The author isn't going to get paid for manuscripts they haven't released to be published.
The only variation on this I would accept would be the declaration of specific unpublished works as being transfered to a family member in the hopes that it would enrich their lives with it being published after the author's death. Once a work has been published, copyright may not be transfered to anyone, though it may be temporarily assigned to a publisher.
The stipulation is that the work goes into the public domain after the copyright holder dies.
As to the 'value' of the copyright being greater for the 20 year old than the 80 year old, that only applies if the copyright has value outside of the lifetime of the holder. The 20 year old may die in a car crash tomorrow, and the 80 year old may live to 120 for all you know.
-Rusty
Just a minor quible, Digital TV does not solve any problems you as a specific consumer has. It very well may provide solutions that other consumers may be seeing.
When it comes down to it, the arguments you have provided can very easily be described as being valid for Sattelite DBS TV, or even Cable TV. And that's just in the TV realm.
When it comes to 'books', the argument could have been made that the printing press did not provide any solutions to consumers of books that was not already being supported by monks making copies by hand.
One thing that DigitalTV can provide that analog can not is the ability to use the same bandwidth to broadcast as much as 4 times the same volume of content. That is not at a benifit to the producers of content. The observation that broadcasters will self limit this ability to only broadcast the same type of material they currently do, in HD rather than four seprate standard definition feeds, is an observation of a possiblity.
I tend to agree that there is not enough material in DigitalTV to give me an incentive to switch at the moment. I won't make the claim that there never will be enough.
I still buy and read books. I go to movies, and Renisanse Festivals. I buy magazines, and listen to the radio in my car.
-Rusty
Nope. Copyrights should be good for the lifetime of the artist who creates the work, and requires a specific delcaration of assignment of rights to allow a corporation to make use of that copyright for the lifetime of the artist, or some shorter period of time, with the rights reverting to the artist.
An artist who would like their works to be made publicly available over the internet would have to publish a list specifying what works are available.
Yes, there will still be problems, copyright violators, and even people who will insist it is their right to make copies of any and all possible works, regardless of the copyright holder's opinion.
-Rusty
It is an even worse analogy than that. The cause of the resistance is not the flat face of the surface, but the flat back of the surface causing turbulance, and drag.
Put a cone on the back of whatever you are trying to push through the air, and the resistance will be significantly lower.
-Rusty
Both are actually the same question. Your body is not structured to "swim" in air. Swiming in air is what we call flying. In all cases forward motion is derived by using force to put stuff that was in front of you, behind you, and the reaction is you going forward.
You are not designed to "float" or "fly" in material as lightly viscous as our atmosphere. The relative density between us, and our lack of a structure designed to produce lift are working against us.
That's not to say that you can't go a long way towards solving this problem. The suits some skydivers use, with pannels betwen their legs, and from legs to arms, allow them to glide a lot further, and have a different perceived terminal velocity than skydivers without these pannels.
Our largest failing is that we do not have a wishbone to hang the necesary musculature on for us to convert our arms to wings. This is true even if our bones were filled with air rather than marrow. (side effect, unless the marrow is given a new portion of the body to reside in, our immune system would have some serious issues.)
-Rusty
... with a Garmin GPS receiver, and a Cell phone, I am looking for a bit of hardware to interconnect them so that if the bike takes off it will call me and I can report it's tracks to the local constabulatory.
Of course with my luck the thief will think the cell phone and GPS are a more attractive theft item than the Bke...
-Rusty
"I see nothing!"
But I suppose someone would claim the quote is flame bait...
If you paid attention to the FA, you might have noticed that what McBride is accusing IBM or other Linux developers of doing, includes changing the variable names to hide the 'stolen' code, and that the software that the Dr. used takes this possibility into consideration, and would find such lines if they existed.
The basic result is that no such lines existed that can be demonstrated to be non-literal copying, or literal copying.
-Rusty
As described elsewhere, my front end is running in an AnTec Minuet case. Quiet enough that I do not hear it in my living room.
My back end is running in another AnTec case, don't recall the model right now. In any case it is far quieter than my desktop computer. Even with extra case fans. That is partly done by running the fans at a lower voltage, but it helps to have fans with good bearings to begin with.
-Rusty
As I understand it, this may not be entirely true, I don't think that what you are asking for is available.
KnoppMyth can run a front end from the CD, so you don't need to touch the hard drive for watching what has been recorded, but it does not include a back end, so your recordings will have to be on a seprate system.
You can set up a back end system stand alone sitting in the basement, or wherever it is convienent to grab your video feed. Basic specs for a 2 card capture system would be a 1 gig or faster processor, motherboard with 2 pci slots, as much hard drive space as you can afford, and 256 meg of memory. You may be able to do with 128 meg of memroy, but 256 will give you some head room should you decide to expand later.
You can use the same KnoppMyth CD that you are going to use for your front end to build the back end, as you are going to want the software running from the hard disk for that. If you use multiple hard drives you will probably want to learn something about lvm as that is not something that is set up by default.
Hauppauge PVR250 cards are what I recommend as a capture card, and they capture to about 1.1 Gig per half hour of video. (Yes they do go into the back end system.)
The capute cards vary in price but figure around $100 to $150 depending upon who you buy them from.
Hope that helps. Getting the back end running is a geeky experience, so if you are not interested in doing that, then the CD based PVR idea is not going to be much help.
Enjoy
-Rusty
Kind of depends upon the implementation.
My front end consists of a motherboard with built in nvidia s-video out, built in sound, built in network adapter, and a quiet (AnandTech Minuet) case and power supply. It's quieter by far than a vcr in playback, and quieter than several DVD players I have owned. Additionally, the front end can be put together for under $200 with new off the shelf equipment, the most expensive part in my setup being the case.
-Rusty
Well, 1 appears to be taken care of...
= ATIRemote
= links/MythContentOnWindows or http://winmyth.sourceforge.net/
If you install KnoppMyth, 2 is taken care of (using the ATI Remote) by executing the command 'install_ati_remote' see http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page
I already use MythTV to record on a computer sitting in one room, and play video content through a much quieter computer in my entertainment center that I have set up as a front end. If you want to use a Windows box rather than a Linux box as your front end, have a look at http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page
I seem to recall there being instructions as well for using an Xbox as a front end, though I have not been looking for those. From one of the Wiki links you can do a search for Xbox if that is of interest to you, or search elsewhere as well.
Have a great weekend.
-Rusty
A little over a year ago I was using Freevo as a video tuner and programing lister. I was never able to get it to record any programs at all.
My first few attempts at MythTV were not even that good.
Once I found KnoppMyth, and installed MythTV through that distribution, I was able to do pretty much everything I was hoping Freevo would allow me to do, and then some.
As to whether Freevo is in better shape than I experienced when I was trying it out, I can't say. I would presume it is. The problem I found was that it expected me to put together the command string for getting the recording software to record a video stream. My presumption is that the software does a better job of setting this up for the user today than it did a year ago.
Others may have different experiences.
The down side of having a working MythTV setup is that I don't spend much time trying out alternative solutions.
-Rusty
One of the FAQ questions for KnoppMyth is if they will ever build a CD where the server can be run from the CD, rather than having to install it to the HD.
I think the logic is that you could then have pre-defined partitions set up to be the hosts for the database, and the video capture files. Optionally the entire hard disk could be used for program information and recorded video.
With sufficient system memory, you could do what some ISO distributions do, and load everthing to memory, and you would even have the cd/dvd drive available for use.
From what I understand there is no current intent to implement this solution.
-Rusty
Because it wasn't released until after the freeze on updates for this release of Mandrake perhaps?
Just because something has a new version out doesn't mean that people putting together a distribution are going to alter the package contents to add it. Gnome 2.8 is out too. It's not in Mandrake 10.1 either. Why not? Because 2.8 was released yesterday (or this week) the freeze for 10.1 happened several weeks ago, about the time that 10.1Beta1 came out I am pretty sure.
-Rusty
It kind of depends upon whether you think supporting Mandrake is a good idea, and whether you think that the OS is worth paying someone to continue working on their favorite distribution.
I have been a Club member in the past, and probably will be again. Asside from the default USB drivers not supporting the Via USB 2.0 chips, easily fixable by replacing the usb-uhci with huci-ohc (or something like that), I have had no significant problems with the 10.1rc1 package.
If you think that it is worth purchasing, to the point where you would pick up a copy at your local computer superstore whenever they get around to carrying it, joining the club gets your money to the developers at a much higher percentage of what you spend.
There are other advantages as well, which you can read on their web page if it really interests you. If not, then the above probably won't be of much interest either.
-Rusty
Or go to http://news.com.com/Google+recruits+eggheads+with+ mystery+billboard/2100-1023_3-5263941.html?tag=nef d.pop2004-07-1310:33:02