I agree with you on the real advantage to ABS for even headed drivers. The other thing ABS does is reduce stopping distance for drivers that stab the brakes and don't think to let up when they start sliding in a panic stop.
For cars, most states used to allow full licensing at 16. Many are now doing graduated licensing at 16 through 18. Some states such as Texas allow "hardship" licensing for those as young as 15 or 14. Motorcycle licensing is generally different, and available at even a younger age (especially for scooters and lower powered motorcycles).
I couldn't think of a better way to say it, but some people have one email account they give out to friends and family so the chances of getting on a spam list are lower. Then they have an account for signing up with companies and registering for accounts online. That is what I meant.
I knew personal gmail had a fairly broad EULA. I wonder if google apps for businesses has the same wording. If so, I wonder why any business would use it.
Were you using the same address with gmail and spam assassin? Or were you using spam assassin on your private account and gmail for your "business" account?
Honestly I pretty indiscriminately give out my Gmail account to any company I have a passing interest in that looks legit. I have no more than a few spams get through a month, and I have never in 3 years had it false positive an email.
I have to ask, what is the big deal? What undesirable consequences of viewing "porn" do you think you are protecting your children from?
The US as a culture is so averse to sexuality. Obviously there is some maturity level you would like children to have before they are exposed to sexual content. But I think children have the faculties to be exposed to sexual content before they have the intellectual framework to be exposed to violence, especially violence that is glorified or goes unpunished.
Kids are curious and you definitely want to teach them they should not allow other people to exploit them sexually, or try to exploit others. But if they are just innocently exploring something considered taboo, would you really rather it be violence over sexuality?
I agree with 99% of your post. However I disagree that just because you are not a software dev or C level, that system software quality (or other quality issues) are not your business. If you are in HR or something like that, obviously not impacted by substandard products, then I agree stay out of it.
I can imagine many other positions in the company with a valid reason to address substandard aspects of the product. The first one I thought of is salesperson. You want features that differentiate your product to win sales, you want happy customers who will return, you don't want to be a punching bag when customers have problems with a product you sold them. You have every right to speak up about substandard system software.
Where do you live? I had a 6mo special of cable internet and expanded basic cable for I think $60 + tax. After that expired and I canceled tv, my slowest offered cable internet is $45 + tax.
I can't remember exactly since it has been several months, but I think OpenGL was possibly what was not supported. People were successfully using the exact same onboard video device with HDTV. Surprisingly HDTV takes little horsepower to display. What it does need is a lot of CPU to decode.
I recorded something on the Mythbox and transferred it to a Windows computer with a stout video card, where it played the same way (very regularly timed stutter). This indicated to me the problem was not the onboard video, but was either a tuner card problem or a PCI bandwidth problem. I tried it with cable (clear QAM) and air (ATSC). The regularness of the stutter even on cable seemed to indicate it was not a reception problem either.
In the middle of this is when Myth completely dropped the tuner card again and my forward progress ended. Nice to know the HDHomeRun works well. Some day I might be willing to pay the money for it. But at this point I have sunk too much money and time into the new Mythbox to be interested in spending much more till it marginally works.
I used a product known to work with Linux/Myth (Divco HDTV5 lite); I did not chose the pcHDTV card or the HD Homerun box for cost considerations. I got my card for $25 on ebay.
Motherboard, processor, and memory all purchased new about 8 months ago. They were very overspeced in relation to what others have working well with Myth HD. Only questionable device was onboard video since it runs in reduced functionality mode with Linux. But from my research, it didn't appear to be the problem and at that point I didn't want to throw more money away unless I thought it would help.
I had MythTV analog working and LOVED it. Then my hard drive crashed and I decided to upgrade it to digital. MythTV digital has been a PITA to try to get working, and keep working.
I couldn't get it to recognize my TV card at first, then I read a hundred web posts and something I did got it working, but with horribly choppy audio and video. I read a hundred more posts and got it working with somewhat choppy video. Then it mysteriously dropped and will no longer recognize my TV card again.
Now I have $400 worth of computer components sitting in the corner with a sad face.
I can't find the link to the article I read now, but it has been claimed the FBI found the preparation made it more deadly, not anything done genetically to the anthrax. The preparation powder was perfectly milled as opposed to random flakes. The anthrax was also coated with silicate and slightly negatively charged. The end result is this would suspend the anthrax in the air longer, encourage it to disperse further, and it would more readily attach to lung tissue.
Absent any political agreements, it depends on the country of citizenship.
If you are a Mexican citizen in Mexico and shoot an American citizen in the US, you have only committed a crime if it is illegal to possess or fire a gun in Mexico, or if it is illegal to kill someone. The US may consider the Mexican to have committed a crime also, but it is irrelevant because the Mexican is in no way under the jurisdiction of the US government.
While in this case the morality of the situation clouds judgement a little, on a broader note, why as a citizen of a country, acting in that country, is it your responsibility to be aware of and obide by laws of a different country?
There is a school of thought that believes if you short your body on calories more than a certain percent, your body goes into survival mode and burns anything it can but fat. Given your activity level, and assuming you are a male, have you tried upping your caloric intake into the 2000-2500 range to see if you start losing weight?
Also do you have lots of extra skin or fat? Perhaps you need to speak with a plastic surgeon about removing some of your extra skin (but not liposuction). Skin can weigh a lot and has a limited ability to contract after being expanded greatly.
On a more general note, you had this routine for years and not got the result you wanted? Have you tried changing it up in any way? What is that saying, "Insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results"?
All Pixar movies have layered meanings and hidden jokes, WALL-E included. But in 1 or 2 sentences, what are the stories of Finding Nemo and The Incredibles? How are their resolutions compared with Ratatouille and WALL-E?
Funny you mention that because WALL-E was the first real departure of Pixar's common memes of road trips, and comedy routines, with everything ending wrapped up in a tidy little bow, as originally formulated by W-B and Disney. Ratatouille was a small step away. I found this blog post interesting
Personally I thought the plot was small but appropriately sized, the characters while not exceptionally deep were perfectly engaging and demonstrative in their motivations, and incredibly memorable. In all my first or second favorite Pixar movie.
Was the thief savvy enough to find a way around your password, or did you not have a password?
This got me thinking of putting a honeypot account on my XP and Ubuntu computers, with Adeona or something similar, possibly multiple traps. With Windows it would be easy to have an account without a password since account names are visible. In Ubuntu you must know both the username and password.
Anyone have thoughts on how to create an obvious account to use as a honeypot on Linux/Ubuntu?
Netflix says unlimited in the number of times you can return the movie for a new one, but the speed of the post office puts a practical limitation on that. Where does Netflix commit to a turn around time they are not meeting?
I think the more appropriate discussion is by how much are they delaying your TAT and is that a reasonable amount based on how fast you return and what you pay? Twenty four hours extra TAT when you are viewing 21 movies a month for $20 on a 3 a month plan seems reasonable to me. You are probably costing Netflix more than your monthly fee with post office and movie studio fees, not to mention their administrative costs.
I have 2 a month agreement for $15 and I'm lucky if I get them returned fast enough to see 6 movies. I don't want to subsidize your movie addiction any more than I already do. And I appreciate Netflix gives me some queue and processing time priority over you when I do return movies, since I do it infrequently and I am such a good customer for them.
What would be really interesting is if Netflix uses heavy renters to subsidize catalog balancing between its warehouses. Say Dallas has lots of 'Back to the Future' and The Valley needs more. When Mr Heavyrenter in The Valley rents 'Back to the Future' it gets sent from Dallas knowing that will slow Heavyrenter down, and it will get returned to The Valley warehouse.
It has been a while since I read the NCLB code, but as I recall NCLB was an unfunded federal mandate. Some states may have increased spending to meet these new requirements, but I don't think the Feds did, and I am sure not all states could afford to.
When I spoke about incentivizing the outcome, I meant how to incentivize the education of a well rounded future citizen. I did not mean how to incentivize schools to pump out robots with rote schooling in 2 subjects such as NCLB encourages. If this is really what the majority of US citizens want, I need to get the hell out of here.
There is a problem in that the Federal government has no mandate to enforce common standards in education. But lets say the states allowed the Federal government that power, and I agree this might be a good thing to do for some under performing schools. I also agree blaming NCLB isn't addressing some of the serious problems. But by the same token, NCLB itself doesn't address the serious problems, and in its implementation is a hindrance to effective education.
I don't see the evidence that the litigious nature of schools and hyper-sensitive parents have a significant detrimental effect on education. Short of hitting kids, what methods of classroom discipline are teachers scared of using and getting sued for? More to the point, it is the parents that flat don't care to foster a learning environment for their children that create the most problems in schools, and long term in our society.
There is also a great disparity in funding between schools in rural Alabama vs. inner-city New York, etc. If the Federal government is going to place standards on education, I think school funding should be federalized and equalized based on local expenses and needs for meeting the standards.
Conversely teachers and administrations are under threat of losing funding and their jobs if children don't pass the NCLB tests. There are 2 problems here, standardized tests don't teach children anything in and of themselves, not all children are good at taking this one kind of pseudo-objectified test, and of course this incentivizes teachers and administrators to teach to the test up to excluding other valuable education to become a well rounded person.
NCLB must be scratched. If we chose to reenact national standards, we first need to look at the outcome we want, think about how to incentivize that outcome, and then craft subtle regulations and funding mechanisms to create that reality, along with looking at the larger social picture. The bellicose political proclamations that became the NCLB are not an appropriate method to resolve the large and important problems here.
I agree the themes were similar, and people are less used to this kind of nonsense now. But they should be less tolerant with 6 years of technological advancement and the higher prices of software. But I had a different experience to you.
I loaded XP onto a 2 or 3 year old computer without upgrading anything and XP ran faster and more stable than 98SE. I don't game on the computer and never personally ran W2k, so I don't have opinions on that.
My brother got a Dell laptop with XPSP2 and a couple months later my girlfriend got virtually the same laptop with twice the memory and Vista. The Vista laptop is a horrible dog with terrible usability characteristics.
Common actions like startup, resume, logon, file operations, printer operations, opening and closing programs like Firefox, rendering web pages, take from 50% to 100% longer on the Vista laptop than the XP laptop. Vista also has random problems like dropping printers then refusing to reinstall the same printer.
"When XP first came out... it was uber slow, crashed apps constantly and tons of HW and SW just wouldn't run on it."
What XP are you talking about? I bought XP on release day and it was great. No hardware issues, a very few software incompatibilities, and it was much faster and more stable than 98SE which is arguably one of MS's best consumer OSes ever released. XP raised the bar several notches out of the blocks, Vista lowered it.
Poster gave notice of resignation. He was not terminated, and he is still a regular employee of the company until the date on his resignation letter unless otherwise released by the company. The company has no additional liabilities regarding restricting access during your twilight unless specified by laws covering specific industries (like possibly banking).
Now I agree it is probably best to turn access off immediately and pair you with an employee so the company can learn to live without you. But it seems the points you state are irrelevant to this specific post question, unless it is also a high risk industry like banking.
I am sure some people have as much trouble with Windows Media Center as I have with the various Myth distros. Personally I haven't tried it since I'd buy a Tivo before WMC, and I would have no tolerance for problems if I did pay hundreds of dollars for WMC.
The last versions of Knoppmyth, Mythbuntu, and Mythdora wouldn't even install on my new hardware, each one had different issues. I am waiting with baited breath for the newest Knoppmyth which was planned to release several weeks ago. I just switched to Mythbuntu 8.04 and it is the first distro that would even install on this newest hardware and is the reason I have gotten as far as I have.
Right now at a minimum I know my onboard SiS Mirage 3 video is not being configured correctly. I get errors saying VideoOutputXv Could not find suitable XVideo surface, Falling back to X11 video output over a network socket. And XvMC is not supported by display.
I have tried to take advantage of google, the Mythbuntu forum, and the Knoppmyth forum. I haven't submitted any bug requests because I'm not sure how much of it is my incompetence and how much are real problems, and really whether they should be reported to Myth or the distro managers.
"in the United States,... what he did would be protected under freedom of speech"
Unless he burned the US flag, or said he is ashamed the President is from his home state, or perhaps while trying to thank the President for his rescue he did several things that are eccentric but perfectly legal? http://kirkflyingvet.com/
And admittedly Knoppmyth, on older hardware, in analog, using a PVR-150 card, was fairly easy to set up and get basic functionality. Even it had niggling minor problems I spent hours researching how to fix. But I have been fighting to get Myth working for the past 6 months using all 3 distros you mention on my newish (at the time) hardware and DTV card.
It has been an exercise in wasted time and beating my head against the wall. Recently I finally got it recognizing the DTV card. But watching TV the screen updates once every couple seconds, and the sound is like listening to a tragically scratched CD.
Unfortunately MythTV is just not for the faint of heart or those with little time and patience.
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I agree with you on the real advantage to ABS for even headed drivers. The other thing ABS does is reduce stopping distance for drivers that stab the brakes and don't think to let up when they start sliding in a panic stop.
For cars, most states used to allow full licensing at 16. Many are now doing graduated licensing at 16 through 18. Some states such as Texas allow "hardship" licensing for those as young as 15 or 14. Motorcycle licensing is generally different, and available at even a younger age (especially for scooters and lower powered motorcycles).
I couldn't think of a better way to say it, but some people have one email account they give out to friends and family so the chances of getting on a spam list are lower. Then they have an account for signing up with companies and registering for accounts online. That is what I meant.
I knew personal gmail had a fairly broad EULA. I wonder if google apps for businesses has the same wording. If so, I wonder why any business would use it.
Were you using the same address with gmail and spam assassin? Or were you using spam assassin on your private account and gmail for your "business" account?
Honestly I pretty indiscriminately give out my Gmail account to any company I have a passing interest in that looks legit. I have no more than a few spams get through a month, and I have never in 3 years had it false positive an email.
I have to ask, what is the big deal? What undesirable consequences of viewing "porn" do you think you are protecting your children from?
The US as a culture is so averse to sexuality. Obviously there is some maturity level you would like children to have before they are exposed to sexual content. But I think children have the faculties to be exposed to sexual content before they have the intellectual framework to be exposed to violence, especially violence that is glorified or goes unpunished.
Kids are curious and you definitely want to teach them they should not allow other people to exploit them sexually, or try to exploit others. But if they are just innocently exploring something considered taboo, would you really rather it be violence over sexuality?
I agree with 99% of your post. However I disagree that just because you are not a software dev or C level, that system software quality (or other quality issues) are not your business. If you are in HR or something like that, obviously not impacted by substandard products, then I agree stay out of it.
I can imagine many other positions in the company with a valid reason to address substandard aspects of the product. The first one I thought of is salesperson. You want features that differentiate your product to win sales, you want happy customers who will return, you don't want to be a punching bag when customers have problems with a product you sold them. You have every right to speak up about substandard system software.
Where do you live? I had a 6mo special of cable internet and expanded basic cable for I think $60 + tax. After that expired and I canceled tv, my slowest offered cable internet is $45 + tax.
I can't remember exactly since it has been several months, but I think OpenGL was possibly what was not supported. People were successfully using the exact same onboard video device with HDTV. Surprisingly HDTV takes little horsepower to display. What it does need is a lot of CPU to decode.
I recorded something on the Mythbox and transferred it to a Windows computer with a stout video card, where it played the same way (very regularly timed stutter). This indicated to me the problem was not the onboard video, but was either a tuner card problem or a PCI bandwidth problem. I tried it with cable (clear QAM) and air (ATSC). The regularness of the stutter even on cable seemed to indicate it was not a reception problem either.
In the middle of this is when Myth completely dropped the tuner card again and my forward progress ended. Nice to know the HDHomeRun works well. Some day I might be willing to pay the money for it. But at this point I have sunk too much money and time into the new Mythbox to be interested in spending much more till it marginally works.
I used a product known to work with Linux/Myth (Divco HDTV5 lite); I did not chose the pcHDTV card or the HD Homerun box for cost considerations. I got my card for $25 on ebay.
Motherboard, processor, and memory all purchased new about 8 months ago. They were very overspeced in relation to what others have working well with Myth HD. Only questionable device was onboard video since it runs in reduced functionality mode with Linux. But from my research, it didn't appear to be the problem and at that point I didn't want to throw more money away unless I thought it would help.
I had MythTV analog working and LOVED it. Then my hard drive crashed and I decided to upgrade it to digital. MythTV digital has been a PITA to try to get working, and keep working.
I couldn't get it to recognize my TV card at first, then I read a hundred web posts and something I did got it working, but with horribly choppy audio and video. I read a hundred more posts and got it working with somewhat choppy video. Then it mysteriously dropped and will no longer recognize my TV card again.
Now I have $400 worth of computer components sitting in the corner with a sad face.
I can't find the link to the article I read now, but it has been claimed the FBI found the preparation made it more deadly, not anything done genetically to the anthrax. The preparation powder was perfectly milled as opposed to random flakes. The anthrax was also coated with silicate and slightly negatively charged. The end result is this would suspend the anthrax in the air longer, encourage it to disperse further, and it would more readily attach to lung tissue.
Absent any political agreements, it depends on the country of citizenship.
If you are a Mexican citizen in Mexico and shoot an American citizen in the US, you have only committed a crime if it is illegal to possess or fire a gun in Mexico, or if it is illegal to kill someone. The US may consider the Mexican to have committed a crime also, but it is irrelevant because the Mexican is in no way under the jurisdiction of the US government.
While in this case the morality of the situation clouds judgement a little, on a broader note, why as a citizen of a country, acting in that country, is it your responsibility to be aware of and obide by laws of a different country?
There is a school of thought that believes if you short your body on calories more than a certain percent, your body goes into survival mode and burns anything it can but fat. Given your activity level, and assuming you are a male, have you tried upping your caloric intake into the 2000-2500 range to see if you start losing weight?
Also do you have lots of extra skin or fat? Perhaps you need to speak with a plastic surgeon about removing some of your extra skin (but not liposuction). Skin can weigh a lot and has a limited ability to contract after being expanded greatly.
On a more general note, you had this routine for years and not got the result you wanted? Have you tried changing it up in any way? What is that saying, "Insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results"?
All Pixar movies have layered meanings and hidden jokes, WALL-E included. But in 1 or 2 sentences, what are the stories of Finding Nemo and The Incredibles? How are their resolutions compared with Ratatouille and WALL-E?
Funny you mention that because WALL-E was the first real departure of Pixar's common memes of road trips, and comedy routines, with everything ending wrapped up in a tidy little bow, as originally formulated by W-B and Disney. Ratatouille was a small step away. I found this blog post interesting
http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2008/06/pixar-wall-e-and-rubber-soul.html
Personally I thought the plot was small but appropriately sized, the characters while not exceptionally deep were perfectly engaging and demonstrative in their motivations, and incredibly memorable. In all my first or second favorite Pixar movie.
Was the thief savvy enough to find a way around your password, or did you not have a password?
This got me thinking of putting a honeypot account on my XP and Ubuntu computers, with Adeona or something similar, possibly multiple traps. With Windows it would be easy to have an account without a password since account names are visible. In Ubuntu you must know both the username and password.
Anyone have thoughts on how to create an obvious account to use as a honeypot on Linux/Ubuntu?
Netflix says unlimited in the number of times you can return the movie for a new one, but the speed of the post office puts a practical limitation on that. Where does Netflix commit to a turn around time they are not meeting?
I think the more appropriate discussion is by how much are they delaying your TAT and is that a reasonable amount based on how fast you return and what you pay? Twenty four hours extra TAT when you are viewing 21 movies a month for $20 on a 3 a month plan seems reasonable to me. You are probably costing Netflix more than your monthly fee with post office and movie studio fees, not to mention their administrative costs.
I have 2 a month agreement for $15 and I'm lucky if I get them returned fast enough to see 6 movies. I don't want to subsidize your movie addiction any more than I already do. And I appreciate Netflix gives me some queue and processing time priority over you when I do return movies, since I do it infrequently and I am such a good customer for them.
What would be really interesting is if Netflix uses heavy renters to subsidize catalog balancing between its warehouses. Say Dallas has lots of 'Back to the Future' and The Valley needs more. When Mr Heavyrenter in The Valley rents 'Back to the Future' it gets sent from Dallas knowing that will slow Heavyrenter down, and it will get returned to The Valley warehouse.
It has been a while since I read the NCLB code, but as I recall NCLB was an unfunded federal mandate. Some states may have increased spending to meet these new requirements, but I don't think the Feds did, and I am sure not all states could afford to.
When I spoke about incentivizing the outcome, I meant how to incentivize the education of a well rounded future citizen. I did not mean how to incentivize schools to pump out robots with rote schooling in 2 subjects such as NCLB encourages. If this is really what the majority of US citizens want, I need to get the hell out of here.
There is a problem in that the Federal government has no mandate to enforce common standards in education. But lets say the states allowed the Federal government that power, and I agree this might be a good thing to do for some under performing schools. I also agree blaming NCLB isn't addressing some of the serious problems. But by the same token, NCLB itself doesn't address the serious problems, and in its implementation is a hindrance to effective education.
I don't see the evidence that the litigious nature of schools and hyper-sensitive parents have a significant detrimental effect on education. Short of hitting kids, what methods of classroom discipline are teachers scared of using and getting sued for? More to the point, it is the parents that flat don't care to foster a learning environment for their children that create the most problems in schools, and long term in our society.
There is also a great disparity in funding between schools in rural Alabama vs. inner-city New York, etc. If the Federal government is going to place standards on education, I think school funding should be federalized and equalized based on local expenses and needs for meeting the standards.
Conversely teachers and administrations are under threat of losing funding and their jobs if children don't pass the NCLB tests. There are 2 problems here, standardized tests don't teach children anything in and of themselves, not all children are good at taking this one kind of pseudo-objectified test, and of course this incentivizes teachers and administrators to teach to the test up to excluding other valuable education to become a well rounded person.
NCLB must be scratched. If we chose to reenact national standards, we first need to look at the outcome we want, think about how to incentivize that outcome, and then craft subtle regulations and funding mechanisms to create that reality, along with looking at the larger social picture. The bellicose political proclamations that became the NCLB are not an appropriate method to resolve the large and important problems here.
I agree the themes were similar, and people are less used to this kind of nonsense now. But they should be less tolerant with 6 years of technological advancement and the higher prices of software. But I had a different experience to you.
I loaded XP onto a 2 or 3 year old computer without upgrading anything and XP ran faster and more stable than 98SE. I don't game on the computer and never personally ran W2k, so I don't have opinions on that.
My brother got a Dell laptop with XPSP2 and a couple months later my girlfriend got virtually the same laptop with twice the memory and Vista. The Vista laptop is a horrible dog with terrible usability characteristics.
Common actions like startup, resume, logon, file operations, printer operations, opening and closing programs like Firefox, rendering web pages, take from 50% to 100% longer on the Vista laptop than the XP laptop. Vista also has random problems like dropping printers then refusing to reinstall the same printer.
"When XP first came out... it was uber slow, crashed apps constantly and tons of HW and SW just wouldn't run on it."
What XP are you talking about? I bought XP on release day and it was great. No hardware issues, a very few software incompatibilities, and it was much faster and more stable than 98SE which is arguably one of MS's best consumer OSes ever released. XP raised the bar several notches out of the blocks, Vista lowered it.
Poster gave notice of resignation. He was not terminated, and he is still a regular employee of the company until the date on his resignation letter unless otherwise released by the company. The company has no additional liabilities regarding restricting access during your twilight unless specified by laws covering specific industries (like possibly banking).
Now I agree it is probably best to turn access off immediately and pair you with an employee so the company can learn to live without you. But it seems the points you state are irrelevant to this specific post question, unless it is also a high risk industry like banking.
I am sure some people have as much trouble with Windows Media Center as I have with the various Myth distros. Personally I haven't tried it since I'd buy a Tivo before WMC, and I would have no tolerance for problems if I did pay hundreds of dollars for WMC.
The last versions of Knoppmyth, Mythbuntu, and Mythdora wouldn't even install on my new hardware, each one had different issues. I am waiting with baited breath for the newest Knoppmyth which was planned to release several weeks ago. I just switched to Mythbuntu 8.04 and it is the first distro that would even install on this newest hardware and is the reason I have gotten as far as I have.
Right now at a minimum I know my onboard SiS Mirage 3 video is not being configured correctly. I get errors saying VideoOutputXv Could not find suitable XVideo surface, Falling back to X11 video output over a network socket. And XvMC is not supported by display.
I have tried to take advantage of google, the Mythbuntu forum, and the Knoppmyth forum. I haven't submitted any bug requests because I'm not sure how much of it is my incompetence and how much are real problems, and really whether they should be reported to Myth or the distro managers.
"in the United States, ... what he did would be protected under freedom of speech"
Unless he burned the US flag, or said he is ashamed the President is from his home state, or perhaps while trying to thank the President for his rescue he did several things that are eccentric but perfectly legal? http://kirkflyingvet.com/
I absolutely love MythTV... when it works...
And admittedly Knoppmyth, on older hardware, in analog, using a PVR-150 card, was fairly easy to set up and get basic functionality. Even it had niggling minor problems I spent hours researching how to fix. But I have been fighting to get Myth working for the past 6 months using all 3 distros you mention on my newish (at the time) hardware and DTV card.
It has been an exercise in wasted time and beating my head against the wall. Recently I finally got it recognizing the DTV card. But watching TV the screen updates once every couple seconds, and the sound is like listening to a tragically scratched CD.
Unfortunately MythTV is just not for the faint of heart or those with little time and patience.