One of the potential resolutions by the court could very well be that since SCO has not provided the defendents with documentation of the alledged infringements in a timely manner, that they are contributing to the infringement and either the case will be thrown out, or SCO will be instructed to mark all allegedly infringing code as public domain and relinquish all rights that would otherwise be assigned by copyright, including claims of creation or ownership.
I rather suspect that of the two, the more likely situation is that the case will be thrown out, the evidence will become public record, the infringing code will be removed, and SCO will close it's doors. Licencing rights will be returned to Novell, who will assign them to the Open Group, who will review the source and determine what if any may be placed into the Public Domain, or returned to the creators of components that were inappropriately claimed by SCO to be contributed to Unix (numa, jfs, xfs, etc.)
Unfortunately they don't need to change the protocol at all to break compatibility for the moment.
The authentication protocol in question uses a table of authentication options. Currently they are using a function that has been cracked. The table in question has a large number of possible functions that can be used as alternatives, and in combination. Since only the one function is being used, it is the only one that can be declared to be working as expected. The remaining functions can be used by Yahoo at any time, simply by changing the request to the client to use a different function, or combination of functions. When that happens, unless the remaining functions have been tested somehow, alternative clients will loose compatibility for a time.
When the initial announcements started comming out that Yahoo was going to a new protocol, I responded to one of them with a thank you for providing me with a further incentive to ask my buddies and friends to move to Jabber or another Open source IM platform.
Then again, I could be wrong. You can go search the message boards for yourself.
If you have asked the person on the other end of the phone to power off the computer, then power it back on, and they report that they see "the same thing" and you know that the computer has not had time to reboot, suggest that they turn off the "hard drive box". If they seem confused, point out that there is a box, possibly on the floor where they put their music CDs, or their floppy disks, that's what you want them to power off and back on.
From having plaayed with several different jabber clients on windows, BeOS and Linux, I don't see the same issue that you claim is a problem. The only thing that I have seen that requires anything like Jabber knowledge is finding a server to connect to. So far as I know, every client uses a wizard of some sort to walk a user through creating an ID, setting up a password, etc.
Then again, having set up my own jabber server, and so forth, perhaps I am too much of a geek to understand what you are concerned with.
NYT registration has absolutely no impact on protecting NYT property. It is there purely as a tool to gather data about their readers.
The data it collects includes demographics based upon certian suppositions, including the number of computers you have contact with in different IP address ranges, and the frequency with witch you read online. This data is converted into information that the NYT uses to sell advertizing space to their advertizers.
If the NYT wanted to protect their copyrights you would be required to have a _Payed_for_ registration that you would have to log into, the content would only be available in an encrypted format and you would have to actually read it with an application that is distributed either by the NYT, or by a vendor that they use to provide that service.
Then again, perhaps your entire post was a really bad attempt at humor.
Just as a point of observation wrt NAT for security, I would like to note that NAT is wonderful at making your system incapable of acting as a publicaly accessible network server, but does nothing for a large percentage of the viruses and worms that exist on the internet at this time.
In fact it can be a serious problem as a significant percentage of the people with NAT on their Broadband gateway are doing little or nothing to improve their desktop security. Why be worried when the gateway will block NAT traffic for me?
I am probably preaching to the choir, but as a simple example of the flaw, you probably still get, and read e-mail, even behind your NAT firewall. If someone sends you an infected file as an attachment, (that you happen to execute, automatically or deliberately) that happens to be an IRC-Bot that will turn your workstation into a rdos center, your NAT box is unlikely to do anything to protect your PC. In fact now that the bug is running on your system, it has the potential to check for other systems in your home network that are vulnerable to various exploits that you haven't patched for, because you are "safe behind my nat firewall".
Suddenly you have multiple boxen in your network that are all accessing the internet without your awareness, and downloading whatever the bug writers have decided to have them download. It's not even remotely improbable that your NAT secured network may become a spaming source without you knowing about it.
NAT as a security tool is the network equivalent of Security through Obscurity, and is just as flawed.
Community service: You will be required to post process the incomming e-mail of the judge or judges of your hearing and will be required to use your own e-mail address to respond to spammers requesting that they remove the judges' e-mail address from their distribution lists. Once the Judges are no longer getting spammed the community service will be expanded to other elected officials for the local government.
Post-processing will be to deal with those items that the judge has already identified as spam.
Repeat offenders will be required to set up a publically available e-mail address, that will be published in the local news paper for the duration of the sentence, at the cost of the offender to receive forwarded spam and have the offender contact the spammer's involved and get the user who has forwarded the spam pulled from the spammer's list of addressees.
If the offender is convicted of installing re-mailers on insecure systems, the offender will also be responsible for identifying the actual source of spam that is comming from other re-mailers or spamingWorms.
Good behaviour points would be awarded for actual successes in removing people from spammers mail listings. No additional penalty for failing to get someone removed so long as the offender can provide good faith evidence that best effort was made to accomplish the task. This evidence may include, but is not limited to message logs on authorized mail servers, phone log records, etc. Failure to provide evidence that meets the above requirements will be considered contempt of court and may be punishable by jail time.
It alredy has been reverse engineered. Both Jabber gateways to Yahoo and Trilian already have been fixed to work with the new protocol. From reading the JDev list it appears that all that is required is to change the version field of the packet to reflect the new version necessary, and things just go right on running.
Now if I can just find a Gaim library that uses the new version number, I will be able to get rid of the popups from Yahoo.
While I agree with Sparty, my own reason is that if the rooms are being used as brothels, then they are probably being charged for on a quarter hour basis. Using one to get through being drunk does not seem to me to be very cost effective in that situation.
Personally I have nothing against brothels and bordellos. If that's the way that you want to get through your sexual frustrations, or power issues, and some woman is willing to take your money in return for the favor, I don't see any problem with it.
Likewise if you feel a need to get drunk, high, wasted, or doped up, and you can do so without hurting others, I don't have a problem with it. I do take issue with smoking because it killed my mom, but that's purely personal. I also happen to think that this is a prime example of where doing one of the above does hurt others, as an unintended consequence. It won't ender me to politions in the tabaco belt either.
Once a driver gets above 45mph/70kph, there aren't a lot of differences in the results of an accident by having the incompetent drivers drive a bit more slowly.
As a point of comparison, German auto manufacturers have been baffled by the desire of American auto owners to have such things as cup holders in their cars. They are completly aware that distractions from the road are well over 90% of the cause of accidents. About 50% of the German Autobahn does not have any speed limits, and the actual fatality rate on those stretches is significantly lower than what we see in the US. Why? Because drivers in Germany pay attention to the road when driving.
There are other factors as well. If you are driving on the Autobahn, and just cruise along in the left lane as American's tend to do on our freeways, you will get pulled over and ticketed for improper driving. On the Autobahn, the only time you drive in the left lane is when you are passing someone. Once you have passed them, you get into the right lane.
As far as getting a car that will drive itself, I think I would rather that every bar were required to maintain rooms for patrons to recover in. Unfortunately I suspect that all too often they would be used as a type of bordello.
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At the moment it takes a bit of extra thinking to do that though.
If I were discriminatory, I might say something like "Male mice have balls, female mice work with light."
Personally I happen to like my GE Optical wheel mouse. Every once in a while I have to check to see if the lense has dust on it, otherwise no cleaning needs to be done.
Without reading the article, which apparently is slashdotted, My recollection is that there are two ways to run Linux on the PS2.
The first way is to buy the Linux kit from Sony, which does run in a virtual machine.
The second is to run via a hack to a game and apparently some memory option. (I don't remember the full details) Apparently it allows you raw access to the hardware, not sandboxed.
There was a story about a month ago explaining how that worked. I presume that you know how to do a search in slashdot.
I would suspect that it is either a flash memory slot, or as you suggest a cardbus slot for a wifi card. As for it being in a hard to reach spot once assembled, that might be part of the idea.
Putting things like this in hard to reach spots would tend to make it less likely that someone opening the top would notice it and perhaps walk off with a major component of your system. With a flash card there you could have a couple of gigabytes of flash memory to boot an entire operating system off of, without any hard drive. That would improve both bootup speed, and cooling performance.
It is also possible that this side of the board is designed to back up to an LCD panel which could be pulled away to gain access to this side of the board in a all in one type system, or for a tablet based system.
My own favorite version of this is the burglar enters a dark room and hears "God is watching!", the burglar looks around and sees a parrot who again says "God is watching!". The burglar asks "What are you God?" to which the parrot replies "No, I am John the Baptist." The burglar then asks "Who in their right mind names a parrot 'John the Baptist'?" The parot replies "The same person who names his doberman 'God'."
Actually there are reasonable problems with telecommuting with an object in orbit. Low earth orbit, they type that the shuttle, Hubble, and the ISS work in has a period of between 90 and 150 min. This means that most (as much as 80-90%) of the time there is no line of site between you and the orbiter. Because of the fact that the earth is rotating under the orbit, setting up base stations to provide full coverage for orbits over land is cost prohibitive, and even worse if you want to include the time when the orbiter in question is over the ocean, which actually is most of the time.
So you need to use a system that is also in orbit. The current telemetry system I believe uses three sattelites in geostationary orbit. This provides full coverage of the entire orbit path, but would provide significant latency for any interactive work, and would be particularly agrivating for any hand eye coordinated work using waldos and cammeras. Every move you attempted to make would take between half a second and two seconds for you to see the response. Worse is that as the interaction moves from one sattelite to another that response time will vary by as much as the extreams, so you are happily working along with a half second latency and a switch over happens and you are now watching a full second or more 20 min later it changes again. And so on. I think it would be enough to drive a user batty.
You might be thinking well this would be a good use for Irridium, or whatever the other low earth orbit telecom network that Microsoft has an interest in promoting, I would question the available bandwidth of a network oriented around delivering phone calls, and bursty data. I don't think it would work well as a video carrier system.
This might be a great place to use flexible robots, where you tell the robot to approach the object to be manipulated, to grab the object to be manipulated, to manipulate the object to be manipulated, to let go of the object to be manipulated, etc.
-Rusty
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as to point 2, from the article, it appears that at the time it was a bit racier than the public mores whould allow to be published.
I tend to suspect that if you go to your local book store in November and December, you can easily find books that are far racier than this book will be/was.
I suspect that even in comparison to Glory Road, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Strnager in a Strange Land, this will be considered tame. Then again I haven't read it yet, so I don't know.
I agree with point 1, though it sounds like his second wife had as much review control at the time as Ginnie did later on.
One of the things that I would like to see would be an edition with the annotations by all the people who had written notes in the margins. Other than copy edits of course.
You sell out pre-orders by knowing how many copies the publisher is going to print, and of that number know how many copies you are going to be allocated and then discover that that number is less than the number of copies that people have pre-ordered. At that point you have two choices. Tell people that they are going to have to look elsewhere for copies, or tell the publisher that you would be happy to sell a lot more copies for them, perhaps even let them know that the number of copies they allocated to you went to pre-orders the first day, and well, it sure is nice doing business with people who have a product that our customers are interested in.
Wouldn't you be willing to use the included DVD recorder to dump the video to DVD within the 30 day period?
Granted it might not be a good idea to use that system to playback the DVD, but you at least have a copy for the next couple of years, not just the next month.
and no self installer that finds the required packages needed for you to use MythTV as anything other than a collection of software residing on your PC.
Note, I don't personally mind having to set up batch jobs to run xmltv to get tv listings, but it shouldn't be nescesary. I don't personally mind having to go out and download five or six seprate packages, and a dozen different perl libraries and who knows what else, but I am not about to set one of these up for my dad to watch and try to use.
I don't care if it is MythTV, FreeVo, or some other system. When you distribute a package, that you want to be used by consumers, you have to make the install user friendly. If your package thinks you need some software that you don't want to include in the package, build the installer so that it downloads and installs that software itself.
This is primarily for the basic service of TV recording, but I think it should also handle other features of the package as the user requests it. So for example if you want the system to be able to play Mame or other games, let the user know (In the user interface, not just the documentation) that the software is going to download and install additional software to support the user request. Requesting updates to the TV guide should not be forced to be run by the user, it should be an application initiated feature.
I personally have Freevo up and running as a glorified tv guide driven tuner. Because the documentation on how to get buffering going is not included in the Freevo documentation, (they obliquely recomend reviewing some documentation without any pointers on where it would be found locally or online) the audio is out of sync with the video. At the same time the ability to go through the tv guide interactively with direct tuning to that channel is sufficient for my needs. At the moment.
All of the configuration is by hand tuning an xml file. Forget the possibility of listing the channels that the user uses most frequently at the top, unless the user edits the config file and changes the order of the channels himself.
Perhaps that is all fixed in MythTV, and I could just install and run it. From what I have read on the MythTV site, and from attempting to install it at least once, my experience is that that is not the case. Additionally MythTV apparently did not like the current version of xmlTv which I had installed, so it would not even look at the channel listings I had for FreeVo.
But that's just my experience. I will be happy to write up a more complete review if someone would like. I would rather have more of the platform running, but have enough list served e-mail already that I really don't need to subscribe to another list to get help. I would rather that help be provided in the documentation, even if it is a list of links to other online documentation for the various required bits and pieces to work together.
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One of the potential resolutions by the court could very well be that since SCO has not provided the defendents with documentation of the alledged infringements in a timely manner, that they are contributing to the infringement and either the case will be thrown out, or SCO will be instructed to mark all allegedly infringing code as public domain and relinquish all rights that would otherwise be assigned by copyright, including claims of creation or ownership.
I rather suspect that of the two, the more likely situation is that the case will be thrown out, the evidence will become public record, the infringing code will be removed, and SCO will close it's doors. Licencing rights will be returned to Novell, who will assign them to the Open Group, who will review the source and determine what if any may be placed into the Public Domain, or returned to the creators of components that were inappropriately claimed by SCO to be contributed to Unix (numa, jfs, xfs, etc.)
Just my thoughts.
-Rusty
Unfortunately they don't need to change the protocol at all to break compatibility for the moment.
The authentication protocol in question uses a table of authentication options. Currently they are using a function that has been cracked. The table in question has a large number of possible functions that can be used as alternatives, and in combination. Since only the one function is being used, it is the only one that can be declared to be working as expected. The remaining functions can be used by Yahoo at any time, simply by changing the request to the client to use a different function, or combination of functions. When that happens, unless the remaining functions have been tested somehow, alternative clients will loose compatibility for a time.
When the initial announcements started comming out that Yahoo was going to a new protocol, I responded to one of them with a thank you for providing me with a further incentive to ask my buddies and friends to move to Jabber or another Open source IM platform.
Then again, I could be wrong. You can go search the message boards for yourself.
-Rusty
If you have asked the person on the other end of the phone to power off the computer, then power it back on, and they report that they see "the same thing" and you know that the computer has not had time to reboot, suggest that they turn off the "hard drive box". If they seem confused, point out that there is a box, possibly on the floor where they put their music CDs, or their floppy disks, that's what you want them to power off and back on.
From having plaayed with several different jabber clients on windows, BeOS and Linux, I don't see the same issue that you claim is a problem. The only thing that I have seen that requires anything like Jabber knowledge is finding a server to connect to. So far as I know, every client uses a wizard of some sort to walk a user through creating an ID, setting up a password, etc.
Then again, having set up my own jabber server, and so forth, perhaps I am too much of a geek to understand what you are concerned with.
-Rusty
NYT registration has absolutely no impact on protecting NYT property. It is there purely as a tool to gather data about their readers.
The data it collects includes demographics based upon certian suppositions, including the number of computers you have contact with in different IP address ranges, and the frequency with witch you read online. This data is converted into information that the NYT uses to sell advertizing space to their advertizers.
If the NYT wanted to protect their copyrights you would be required to have a _Payed_for_ registration that you would have to log into, the content would only be available in an encrypted format and you would have to actually read it with an application that is distributed either by the NYT, or by a vendor that they use to provide that service.
Then again, perhaps your entire post was a really bad attempt at humor.
-Rusty
Did you even read the observation?
Just as a point of observation wrt NAT for security, I would like to note that NAT is wonderful at making your system incapable of acting as a publicaly accessible network server, but does nothing for a large percentage of the viruses and worms that exist on the internet at this time.
In fact it can be a serious problem as a significant percentage of the people with NAT on their Broadband gateway are doing little or nothing to improve their desktop security. Why be worried when the gateway will block NAT traffic for me?
I am probably preaching to the choir, but as a simple example of the flaw, you probably still get, and read e-mail, even behind your NAT firewall. If someone sends you an infected file as an attachment, (that you happen to execute, automatically or deliberately) that happens to be an IRC-Bot that will turn your workstation into a rdos center, your NAT box is unlikely to do anything to protect your PC. In fact now that the bug is running on your system, it has the potential to check for other systems in your home network that are vulnerable to various exploits that you haven't patched for, because you are "safe behind my nat firewall".
Suddenly you have multiple boxen in your network that are all accessing the internet without your awareness, and downloading whatever the bug writers have decided to have them download. It's not even remotely improbable that your NAT secured network may become a spaming source without you knowing about it.
NAT as a security tool is the network equivalent of Security through Obscurity, and is just as flawed.
-Rusty
Community service: You will be required to post process the incomming e-mail of the judge or judges of your hearing and will be required to use your own e-mail address to respond to spammers requesting that they remove the judges' e-mail address from their distribution lists. Once the Judges are no longer getting spammed the community service will be expanded to other elected officials for the local government.
Post-processing will be to deal with those items that the judge has already identified as spam.
Repeat offenders will be required to set up a publically available e-mail address, that will be published in the local news paper for the duration of the sentence, at the cost of the offender to receive forwarded spam and have the offender contact the spammer's involved and get the user who has forwarded the spam pulled from the spammer's list of addressees.
If the offender is convicted of installing re-mailers on insecure systems, the offender will also be responsible for identifying the actual source of spam that is comming from other re-mailers or spamingWorms.
Good behaviour points would be awarded for actual successes in removing people from spammers mail listings. No additional penalty for failing to get someone removed so long as the offender can provide good faith evidence that best effort was made to accomplish the task. This evidence may include, but is not limited to message logs on authorized mail servers, phone log records, etc. Failure to provide evidence that meets the above requirements will be considered contempt of court and may be punishable by jail time.
Just an idea.
-Rusty
It alredy has been reverse engineered. Both Jabber gateways to Yahoo and Trilian already have been fixed to work with the new protocol. From reading the JDev list it appears that all that is required is to change the version field of the packet to reflect the new version necessary, and things just go right on running.
Now if I can just find a Gaim library that uses the new version number, I will be able to get rid of the popups from Yahoo.
-Rusty
While I agree with Sparty, my own reason is that if the rooms are being used as brothels, then they are probably being charged for on a quarter hour basis. Using one to get through being drunk does not seem to me to be very cost effective in that situation.
Personally I have nothing against brothels and bordellos. If that's the way that you want to get through your sexual frustrations, or power issues, and some woman is willing to take your money in return for the favor, I don't see any problem with it.
Likewise if you feel a need to get drunk, high, wasted, or doped up, and you can do so without hurting others, I don't have a problem with it. I do take issue with smoking because it killed my mom, but that's purely personal. I also happen to think that this is a prime example of where doing one of the above does hurt others, as an unintended consequence. It won't ender me to politions in the tabaco belt either.
-Rusty
Once a driver gets above 45mph/70kph, there aren't a lot of differences in the results of an accident by having the incompetent drivers drive a bit more slowly.
As a point of comparison, German auto manufacturers have been baffled by the desire of American auto owners to have such things as cup holders in their cars. They are completly aware that distractions from the road are well over 90% of the cause of accidents. About 50% of the German Autobahn does not have any speed limits, and the actual fatality rate on those stretches is significantly lower than what we see in the US. Why? Because drivers in Germany pay attention to the road when driving.
There are other factors as well. If you are driving on the Autobahn, and just cruise along in the left lane as American's tend to do on our freeways, you will get pulled over and ticketed for improper driving. On the Autobahn, the only time you drive in the left lane is when you are passing someone. Once you have passed them, you get into the right lane.
As far as getting a car that will drive itself, I think I would rather that every bar were required to maintain rooms for patrons to recover in. Unfortunately I suspect that all too often they would be used as a type of bordello.
-Rusty
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At the moment it takes a bit of extra thinking to do that though.
-Rusty
Or, as in all too many cases,
Reinstall
-Rusty
They tried to include on, but everyone kept trying to throw away the interface using the trash bin so they had to take it out.
it's a joke, laugh.
If I were discriminatory, I might say something like "Male mice have balls, female mice work with light."
Personally I happen to like my GE Optical wheel mouse. Every once in a while I have to check to see if the lense has dust on it, otherwise no cleaning needs to be done.
-Rusty
Actually that's not the story I was refering to. See this story about an exploit on PS2 similar to the 007 exploit on X-box.
-Rusty
Without reading the article, which apparently is slashdotted, My recollection is that there are two ways to run Linux on the PS2.
The first way is to buy the Linux kit from Sony, which does run in a virtual machine.
The second is to run via a hack to a game and apparently some memory option. (I don't remember the full details) Apparently it allows you raw access to the hardware, not sandboxed.
There was a story about a month ago explaining how that worked. I presume that you know how to do a search in slashdot.
-Rusty
I would suspect that it is either a flash memory slot, or as you suggest a cardbus slot for a wifi card. As for it being in a hard to reach spot once assembled, that might be part of the idea.
Putting things like this in hard to reach spots would tend to make it less likely that someone opening the top would notice it and perhaps walk off with a major component of your system. With a flash card there you could have a couple of gigabytes of flash memory to boot an entire operating system off of, without any hard drive. That would improve both bootup speed, and cooling performance.
It is also possible that this side of the board is designed to back up to an LCD panel which could be pulled away to gain access to this side of the board in a all in one type system, or for a tablet based system.
Then again, that's all conjecture.
-Rusty
My own favorite version of this is the burglar enters a dark room and hears "God is watching!", the burglar looks around and sees a parrot who again says "God is watching!". The burglar asks "What are you God?" to which the parrot replies "No, I am John the Baptist." The burglar then asks "Who in their right mind names a parrot 'John the Baptist'?" The parot replies "The same person who names his doberman 'God'."
-Rusty
Actually there are reasonable problems with telecommuting with an object in orbit. Low earth orbit, they type that the shuttle, Hubble, and the ISS work in has a period of between 90 and 150 min. This means that most (as much as 80-90%) of the time there is no line of site between you and the orbiter. Because of the fact that the earth is rotating under the orbit, setting up base stations to provide full coverage for orbits over land is cost prohibitive, and even worse if you want to include the time when the orbiter in question is over the ocean, which actually is most of the time.
So you need to use a system that is also in orbit. The current telemetry system I believe uses three sattelites in geostationary orbit. This provides full coverage of the entire orbit path, but would provide significant latency for any interactive work, and would be particularly agrivating for any hand eye coordinated work using waldos and cammeras. Every move you attempted to make would take between half a second and two seconds for you to see the response. Worse is that as the interaction moves from one sattelite to another that response time will vary by as much as the extreams, so you are happily working along with a half second latency and a switch over happens and you are now watching a full second or more 20 min later it changes again. And so on. I think it would be enough to drive a user batty.
You might be thinking well this would be a good use for Irridium, or whatever the other low earth orbit telecom network that Microsoft has an interest in promoting, I would question the available bandwidth of a network oriented around delivering phone calls, and bursty data. I don't think it would work well as a video carrier system.
This might be a great place to use flexible robots, where you tell the robot to approach the object to be manipulated, to grab the object to be manipulated, to manipulate the object to be manipulated, to let go of the object to be manipulated, etc.
-Rusty
as to point 2, from the article, it appears that at the time it was a bit racier than the public mores whould allow to be published.
I tend to suspect that if you go to your local book store in November and December, you can easily find books that are far racier than this book will be/was.
I suspect that even in comparison to Glory Road, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Strnager in a Strange Land, this will be considered tame. Then again I haven't read it yet, so I don't know.
I agree with point 1, though it sounds like his second wife had as much review control at the time as Ginnie did later on.
One of the things that I would like to see would be an edition with the annotations by all the people who had written notes in the margins. Other than copy edits of course.
That's just my views however.
-Rusty
you mean you don't order the books by the color of their binding? How unstylish of you.
-Rusty
You sell out pre-orders by knowing how many copies the publisher is going to print, and of that number know how many copies you are going to be allocated and then discover that that number is less than the number of copies that people have pre-ordered. At that point you have two choices. Tell people that they are going to have to look elsewhere for copies, or tell the publisher that you would be happy to sell a lot more copies for them, perhaps even let them know that the number of copies they allocated to you went to pre-orders the first day, and well, it sure is nice doing business with people who have a product that our customers are interested in.
-Rusty
Wouldn't you be willing to use the included DVD recorder to dump the video to DVD within the 30 day period?
Granted it might not be a good idea to use that system to playback the DVD, but you at least have a copy for the next couple of years, not just the next month.
-Rusty
and no self installer that finds the required packages needed for you to use MythTV as anything other than a collection of software residing on your PC.
Note, I don't personally mind having to set up batch jobs to run xmltv to get tv listings, but it shouldn't be nescesary. I don't personally mind having to go out and download five or six seprate packages, and a dozen different perl libraries and who knows what else, but I am not about to set one of these up for my dad to watch and try to use.
I don't care if it is MythTV, FreeVo, or some other system. When you distribute a package, that you want to be used by consumers, you have to make the install user friendly. If your package thinks you need some software that you don't want to include in the package, build the installer so that it downloads and installs that software itself.
This is primarily for the basic service of TV recording, but I think it should also handle other features of the package as the user requests it. So for example if you want the system to be able to play Mame or other games, let the user know (In the user interface, not just the documentation) that the software is going to download and install additional software to support the user request. Requesting updates to the TV guide should not be forced to be run by the user, it should be an application initiated feature.
I personally have Freevo up and running as a glorified tv guide driven tuner. Because the documentation on how to get buffering going is not included in the Freevo documentation, (they obliquely recomend reviewing some documentation without any pointers on where it would be found locally or online) the audio is out of sync with the video. At the same time the ability to go through the tv guide interactively with direct tuning to that channel is sufficient for my needs. At the moment.
All of the configuration is by hand tuning an xml file. Forget the possibility of listing the channels that the user uses most frequently at the top, unless the user edits the config file and changes the order of the channels himself.
Perhaps that is all fixed in MythTV, and I could just install and run it. From what I have read on the MythTV site, and from attempting to install it at least once, my experience is that that is not the case. Additionally MythTV apparently did not like the current version of xmlTv which I had installed, so it would not even look at the channel listings I had for FreeVo.
But that's just my experience. I will be happy to write up a more complete review if someone would like. I would rather have more of the platform running, but have enough list served e-mail already that I really don't need to subscribe to another list to get help. I would rather that help be provided in the documentation, even if it is a list of links to other online documentation for the various required bits and pieces to work together.
-Rusty