He does a nice job of keeping this guide up to date and complete. Some people may not like the RPM he uses (Axel Thimm custom packages) but they've worked nicely for me.
21.15 Can I run MythTV on my TiVo?
21.16 Can I run MythTV on my ReplayTV?
No.
While it is true that the TiVo runs the Linux kernel, and TiVo has released their changes to the kernel under the GPL, the TiVo is not a general-purpose computer, and there is no programming information available for the custom hardware contained within a TiVo. TiVo is under no obligation to release the source code to their application.
The ReplayTV runs VxWorks, a Real Time Operating System from Wind River Systems.
I know I like to see real life experiences about products, preferably from people who have tried more than one solution.
Asking on Slashdot may be only one step in this person's search for a solution. It isn't necessarily the entire effort this person is putting into their research.
Meh... I'm on call. I didn't say I'm constantly being paged, I simply have to be reachable if/when those pages come. When I am paged, no one knows it but me. People simply see me leave the room. How you are accomodating me, I don't know. I just don't want to be hampered.
You don't get it or you're not listening.
I have been on call 24x7x365 for three years now, and I'm not a doctor.
I count on a pager for this. If I don't answer a page, I'm going to get nailed to the wall. More than once, and I'm out of a job.
Some people don't get to wait until "time off" rolls around. Some of us NEVER get true time off.
Sorry for so many responses from me... after I posted, it hit me that you mentioned a centralized database. I do think that would work well assuming that there were significant legal penalties for violators. I do like that idea.
I pulled this quote from the CAUCE web site, by the way... thought I would mention that. The opinions you find there in their FAQ are in line with my own.
But the government can control advertising. When is the last time you've seen a tobacco product advertised on TV (assuming you are in the US)?
As far as cost, traditional methods shift the primary cost on the seller... the cost of the call itself the cost for telemarketer salaries, the cost for bulk mail processing. The cost to send UCE is almost nil. If you sum the costs for ISP's and individuals, it does become quite expensive. One by one, no, but over time, yes.
The government can regulate this type of thing. Take, for example, junk fax laws.
It does apply to snail mail, as well. An advertiser cannot send me sexually oriented materials without my explicit opt-in.
From Rowan vs. the US Post Office:
"Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or to view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit. . . We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has the right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. . . We repeat, the right of a mailer stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain."
Sure. Personally, I feel that it should be made illegal for people to contact me at my mailbox for the purposes of UCE. Their speech remains free, my mailbox remains clean.
It is unreasonable for me to have to opt out of every promotion that hits my mailbox. For every product that may comes out, there are how many resellers and how many spammers to promote the stuff? My job of notifying spammers becomes a never ending task.
I don't see any reason why we cannot close e-mail to UCE (Unsolicited commercial e-mail) completely. If they want to advertise, they can use avenues where THEY bear the cost (phone, snail mail, etc.) rather than costs being passed back to me from my ISP because of server space and bandwidth issues.
Now some might argue that some few will not apply effective filtering. So spam will still reach a few, and some of them will reply or even fall victim to the spammer's scams. So spamming will still be profitable, some would argue. This will greatly increase the volume of spam, even though it is all filtered. But then think what happens. For those poor souls who are NOT filtering, the incentive becomes tremendous to begin filtering. So the greater volume the spammers send, the more effective filtering will become, both in terms of technology (due to incentive) and in terms of number of users who actually employ filtering.
I believe that there will always be that minority that the UCE will reach - constant new victims. As long as that minority exists, it remains worthwhile for the UCE to be sent. As long as there are victims to reach, the volume remains, and I keep paying for it. I like having the filter, but I only see it as a stopgap measure, not a solution.
There are still servers that have to store the UCE until it gets filtered, not to mention the extra traffic that is generated. Ultimately, consumers are still the ones footing the bill for this garbage as provider pass their costs on for the extra server space and bandwidth needs. All this does is provide an easier filtering tool. It does not stop them from sending it in the first place... something I never opted-in to in the first place.
Actually, from seeing discussions with actual virus writers, it is a more impressive act to write a slower-spreading worm. If it spreads too fast and does a lot of damage, you are on the law's radar screens and could get picked up and incarcerated. Better to write something slow-spreading. Also, the people writing them and the people releasing them into the wild are not the same. Virus writers often display source code, but then someone comes along with an agenda and compiles and releases the malware. Also, the virus updating itself is not a new concept. Hybris (written by Vecna) did that already via Usenet.
Or for programs to supply the source code of programs so people without computers can admire the programs..
No... assuming the lyrics are sung clearly enough, there is no interpretation that needs to be done to know the words that the singer is uttering. In regard to computer programs, running a program does not make it obvious how the program was written. Bad analogy. Seems to me most analogies are flawed. (Although I catch myself trying to use them to illustrate points, also).
Like many people, I do not see the harm in publishing lyrics openly. In some ways, I think that music companies should make the lyrics available themselves so that a person really knows what it is that they are listening to. I would not like it if books were all shrink wrapped at the book store, either. I want to know what I'm paying for. And if you think radio is free, it's not. Your time (during advertisement) is what the stations want back from you. And no, the anolgy does not fit here, either. With a computer program, the finished product is the compiled loadable module. I do want to use a demo of a program before I buy. Seeing source code might be nice, but it is not necessary to see if a program does what I need it to. I also use Red Hat 9 at home, so you can bet that I DO have source code for most of what I run.
This is another case of the letter of the law being carried too far. If I hear a song and remember the lyrics, is just speaking them to someone illegal?
I really have to vouch for a parent staying at home with a child. My wife and I were planning on her going back to work although she really wanted to be a stay at home mom.
Well, my wife ended up with toxemia (HELLP syndrome) and my son had to be delivered 11 weeks early to save her life.
My son was born weighing in at 2 pounds, four ounces (I called him 2X4 for a while.. humor helped to cover my fear). He ended up coming home eight weeks later on a monitor (to monitor breathing and heart rate) at exactly double his birth weight. Do the math. Still very little.
OK... My wife had already used up her maternity leave and gone into disability insurance payments while she recovered. Now our son was ready to come home, and there was no way we would ever find a daycare for his needs as a preemie. If we did find one, there was no way we would trust them with his needs. He had a tendency to quit breathing on occasion, and had to be mildly stimulated (rubbing his back) to get him to breathe again.
That was it. Our decision was made for us. One of us had to stay home. My income being the better of ours, I continued working and my wife stayed home.
We missed that income for about a year. After another year, things were much better. Now, I think we are on good forward progress again. We did have to adjust, and I did things to improve my take-home. In other words, necessity forced the issue and we did it.
Our son is a normal 2.5 year old now. I still value my wife being home with him. I know he gets attention and is well cared for.
I know I rambled, but I guess my point is that you can give up that second income, if you are willing to give up a few creature comforts.
A gig for the Base OS? No. I've run machines with tiny hard drives (less than 200 meg) with GUI's. You have to be selective about what it installs. I can't speak for OSX, because I know nothing about it, but OSes such as MS can fit on one disk because they aren't offering as much as a Linux distro... compilers, servers, databases, source code... the list goes on and on.
The distros are big because of what they include. Crap? That's for the user to decide. If you don't want it, there's no requirement to install it.
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That is very true. When people are working on free software, it is a creative outlet for many, I would think. Improving on the existing is beneficial to the community, but not as gratifying to the individual. It's not their own creation. Proprietary software has the focus advantage because creativity has to be channeled to keep a project on tract, plus, of course, they have developers working on the projects 40 hours a week. While I think the article raises good points, personal freedom is also an issue, not just freedom of code.
Actually, I also got another response (below the horizon due to bad karma) saying that the latest CVS version will let me connect to my account. I haven't fully researched it yet (obviously) but it sounds like the stable version of Gnucash won't let me connect to my account yet, although the CVS sounds tempting.
Bill payment and downloading transactions from my bank... I can't get to their site right now, but I understand from the original post that this is the first Linux based financial app that will let you do the two activities I listed.
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If anyone is interested in a much better guide (under Fedora):
Jarod Wilson's Fedora Myth(TV)ology
He does a nice job of keeping this guide up to date and complete. Some people may not like the RPM he uses (Axel Thimm custom packages) but they've worked nicely for me.
Terry
Why not?
I know I like to see real life experiences about products, preferably from people who have tried more than one solution.
Asking on Slashdot may be only one step in this person's search for a solution. It isn't necessarily the entire effort this person is putting into their research.
Seems reasonable to me.
Meh... I'm on call. I didn't say I'm constantly being paged, I simply have to be reachable if/when those pages come. When I am paged, no one knows it but me. People simply see me leave the room. How you are accomodating me, I don't know. I just don't want to be hampered.
Option three, coward. I go to the movies. I silence my pager. It stays in my pocket until I get out of the theater should it go off.
You don't get it or you're not listening. I have been on call 24x7x365 for three years now, and I'm not a doctor. I count on a pager for this. If I don't answer a page, I'm going to get nailed to the wall. More than once, and I'm out of a job. Some people don't get to wait until "time off" rolls around. Some of us NEVER get true time off.
People that didn't spend money on the problem were only people with unimportant systems.
The problem was real. It only takes math knowledge to figure out how it worked:
An insurance policy matures at age 65, for instance:
Caculate age (some elements removed for simplicity):
Birth Year:1935 (2 digits 35)
Today:1999 (Two digits 99)
99 - 40 = 64
Now it's Y2K...maturity, right?
00 - 40 = -40
The policy never matures.
Just because some people aren't affected doesn't mean there was no problem.
Sorry for so many responses from me... after I posted, it hit me that you mentioned a centralized database. I do think that would work well assuming that there were significant legal penalties for violators. I do like that idea.
I pulled this quote from the CAUCE web site, by the way... thought I would mention that. The opinions you find there in their FAQ are in line with my own.
But the government can control advertising. When is the last time you've seen a tobacco product advertised on TV (assuming you are in the US)?
As far as cost, traditional methods shift the primary cost on the seller... the cost of the call itself the cost for telemarketer salaries, the cost for bulk mail processing. The cost to send UCE is almost nil. If you sum the costs for ISP's and individuals, it does become quite expensive. One by one, no, but over time, yes.
The government can regulate this type of thing. Take, for example, junk fax laws.
It does apply to snail mail, as well. An advertiser cannot send me sexually oriented materials without my explicit opt-in.
From Rowan vs. the US Post Office:
Sure. Personally, I feel that it should be made illegal for people to contact me at my mailbox for the purposes of UCE. Their speech remains free, my mailbox remains clean.
It is unreasonable for me to have to opt out of every promotion that hits my mailbox. For every product that may comes out, there are how many resellers and how many spammers to promote the stuff? My job of notifying spammers becomes a never ending task.
I don't see any reason why we cannot close e-mail to UCE (Unsolicited commercial e-mail) completely. If they want to advertise, they can use avenues where THEY bear the cost (phone, snail mail, etc.) rather than costs being passed back to me from my ISP because of server space and bandwidth issues.
You make a good point, but to quote you:
I believe that there will always be that minority that the UCE will reach - constant new victims. As long as that minority exists, it remains worthwhile for the UCE to be sent. As long as there are victims to reach, the volume remains, and I keep paying for it. I like having the filter, but I only see it as a stopgap measure, not a solution.
Freedom of speech is a right, but there are no guarantees for a platform for that speech (my mailbox).
There are still servers that have to store the UCE until it gets filtered, not to mention the extra traffic that is generated. Ultimately, consumers are still the ones footing the bill for this garbage as provider pass their costs on for the extra server space and bandwidth needs. All this does is provide an easier filtering tool. It does not stop them from sending it in the first place... something I never opted-in to in the first place.
I meant to say that the authors and spreaders are not ALWAYS the same person. There are probably exceptions.
Actually, from seeing discussions with actual virus writers, it is a more impressive act to write a slower-spreading worm. If it spreads too fast and does a lot of damage, you are on the law's radar screens and could get picked up and incarcerated. Better to write something slow-spreading. Also, the people writing them and the people releasing them into the wild are not the same. Virus writers often display source code, but then someone comes along with an agenda and compiles and releases the malware. Also, the virus updating itself is not a new concept. Hybris (written by Vecna) did that already via Usenet.
...I'm sure that there are problems with my book analogy. I TOLD you I'm guilty of that. :-)
No... assuming the lyrics are sung clearly enough, there is no interpretation that needs to be done to know the words that the singer is uttering. In regard to computer programs, running a program does not make it obvious how the program was written. Bad analogy. Seems to me most analogies are flawed. (Although I catch myself trying to use them to illustrate points, also).
Like many people, I do not see the harm in publishing lyrics openly. In some ways, I think that music companies should make the lyrics available themselves so that a person really knows what it is that they are listening to. I would not like it if books were all shrink wrapped at the book store, either. I want to know what I'm paying for. And if you think radio is free, it's not. Your time (during advertisement) is what the stations want back from you. And no, the anolgy does not fit here, either. With a computer program, the finished product is the compiled loadable module. I do want to use a demo of a program before I buy. Seeing source code might be nice, but it is not necessary to see if a program does what I need it to. I also use Red Hat 9 at home, so you can bet that I DO have source code for most of what I run.
This is another case of the letter of the law being carried too far. If I hear a song and remember the lyrics, is just speaking them to someone illegal?
I really have to vouch for a parent staying at home with a child. My wife and I were planning on her going back to work although she really wanted to be a stay at home mom.
Well, my wife ended up with toxemia (HELLP syndrome) and my son had to be delivered 11 weeks early to save her life.
My son was born weighing in at 2 pounds, four ounces (I called him 2X4 for a while.. humor helped to cover my fear). He ended up coming home eight weeks later on a monitor (to monitor breathing and heart rate) at exactly double his birth weight. Do the math. Still very little.
OK... My wife had already used up her maternity leave and gone into disability insurance payments while she recovered. Now our son was ready to come home, and there was no way we would ever find a daycare for his needs as a preemie. If we did find one, there was no way we would trust them with his needs. He had a tendency to quit breathing on occasion, and had to be mildly stimulated (rubbing his back) to get him to breathe again.
That was it. Our decision was made for us. One of us had to stay home. My income being the better of ours, I continued working and my wife stayed home.
We missed that income for about a year. After another year, things were much better. Now, I think we are on good forward progress again. We did have to adjust, and I did things to improve my take-home. In other words, necessity forced the issue and we did it.
Our son is a normal 2.5 year old now. I still value my wife being home with him. I know he gets attention and is well cared for.
I know I rambled, but I guess my point is that you can give up that second income, if you are willing to give up a few creature comforts.
A gig for the Base OS? No. I've run machines with tiny hard drives (less than 200 meg) with GUI's. You have to be selective about what it installs. I can't speak for OSX, because I know nothing about it, but OSes such as MS can fit on one disk because they aren't offering as much as a Linux distro... compilers, servers, databases, source code... the list goes on and on. The distros are big because of what they include. Crap? That's for the user to decide. If you don't want it, there's no requirement to install it.
"on track" that is... not tract.
That is very true. When people are working on free software, it is a creative outlet for many, I would think. Improving on the existing is beneficial to the community, but not as gratifying to the individual. It's not their own creation. Proprietary software has the focus advantage because creativity has to be channeled to keep a project on tract, plus, of course, they have developers working on the projects 40 hours a week. While I think the article raises good points, personal freedom is also an issue, not just freedom of code.
Maybe my bank isn't German. (And it isn't).
Actually, I also got another response (below the horizon due to bad karma) saying that the latest CVS version will let me connect to my account. I haven't fully researched it yet (obviously) but it sounds like the stable version of Gnucash won't let me connect to my account yet, although the CVS sounds tempting.
Bill payment and downloading transactions from my bank... I can't get to their site right now, but I understand from the original post that this is the first Linux based financial app that will let you do the two activities I listed.
Hell, yeah. Just apply a warmed up notebook PC to the stump to cauterize it, put the laptop back on the desk and keep working.