Re:If you can spare the time to get MythTV to work
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Shame that you had so much trouble. I wonder what version you used. I installed R5A10 (alpha) and was blown away at how easy it was. I have a few things in my system that helped, a pvr-250 which is vary common, and a plasma tv with vga input so no messing with tv-out. I had the whole thing installed and running 2 hours tops. and it works like a dream. Knoppymth seems to be improving on a relatively regular basis. plus they've just started touting a 'supported' hardware config that you can either buy built from them or build your own so you know you'll have minimum hasstle. all in all I have to say that I've found MythTV particularly through Knoppmyth to be amazing, and well worth keeping an eye on, even if your first experience was bad. I also happen to like that whole 'free' as in freedom AND Beer thing.
In the UK I guess the equivilent is the like sof Dixons or Currys where they constantly try to sell you the extended insurance. A line that I find works really well is 'No thanks it's only X, if it breaks I'll buy a new one' it's amazing how fast that shuts them up.
Re:Windows for desktop Linux for servers...
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ah.. but then I would guess she had no difficulty using windows either..I'm refering to the people that have a hard time matching up moving the mouse with where the pointer goes on the screen...and pretty don't recognise buttons as being buttons... it's amazing the things you don't realise you just *know* until you watch someone that really has absolutly no clue. My mother inlaw can use e-mail, but given a different computer to her own couldn't even figure out how to switch it on... Linux is a LONG way from ready for those people...(and I'm not sure I'd ever want it to be)
Windows for desktop Linux for servers...
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I think is what they expect to happen. and they're probably right, I use Linux on a desktop, but I know too many people that can't even cope with Windows which (despite it's flaws) goes out of it's way to be easy enough for a child to use. Linux is great, but it's not for the masses, and there is no money to be made with Linux on the desktop (well not much) the likes of IBM invest in linux for servers becuase they can then sell the hardware and the support, but that means investment in making it a first class server OS, and not much on making it an easy-to-use desktop environment. I think redhat realise that proprietary UNIX's are their only real space to grow in.
So after a few years of r&D half a dozen custom built protoypes (to be discarded as non-biodegradable junk) and other discarded parts they can have something that probably took more energy to make than a small town uses in a year, but then fly it around the world using only energy from the sun...I suppose it will be a cool engineering achievement.
'I don't know if you looked around before you left, but we've GOT rock! just laying about... oh wait Neil did you hear,.. while you were gone rock went up 3 points....no it didn't.. becuase it's just ROCK' --Eddie Izzard
"Krastof told investigators that he had no idea the stolen computer in his home contained a treasure trove of customer data for anyone interested in ripping off people's identities."
Wow, really? how suprising, when caught with a stolen laptop (for which he presumably had to go to some lengths to steal from an office (mine has cameras, motion sensors, gaurds etc)) he admits the theft (hard to deny it) but not that he intended to use the information...becuase it must of been SUCH an opportunistic crime, just happened to be walking past the building.. no idea what they do..and I tripped..stumbled past reception, up 10 floors and round a bend, where I just lent on a door (to catch my breath) and blow me if it didn't just swing open...and there on a desk was the laptop, which I admit that I stole (now you've found me with it) but all that data? which any normal theif looking for hardware would of just formatted away? nope I had nooooo idea...
That would save them time, so far I have to pay a tax because I own a tv (incase I break a habbit of a lifetime and actually watch a BBC channel) tax on the fuel in my car, which I paid tax to buy, and pay tax to actually drive it anywhere, oh and of course I paid tax to earn the money in the first place. If this kind of thing catches on I'll soon be paying tax on my net connection, and hey why not just tax my ears whilst you're at it, wouldn't want me just listening to any old thing without paying someone for the prvilage...
Does anyone else just wish the judge will just turn around and say 'hey your both trying to compel each other to move along faster, and SCO I see wants to try to move on with licencing attempts, so I tell you what, lets get this done right here right now, no more waiting 17 months....'
I mean SCO is so 'confident' I'd love to see Darl's face if told his day in court gets to be in a week instead of a year and half...
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Shame that you had so much trouble. I wonder what version you used. I installed R5A10 (alpha) and was blown away at how easy it was. I have a few things in my system that helped, a pvr-250 which is vary common, and a plasma tv with vga input so no messing with tv-out. I had the whole thing installed and running 2 hours tops. and it works like a dream. Knoppymth seems to be improving on a relatively regular basis. plus they've just started touting a 'supported' hardware config that you can either buy built from them or build your own so you know you'll have minimum hasstle. all in all I have to say that I've found MythTV particularly through Knoppmyth to be amazing, and well worth keeping an eye on, even if your first experience was bad. I also happen to like that whole 'free' as in freedom AND Beer thing.
In the UK I guess the equivilent is the like sof Dixons or Currys where they constantly try to sell you the extended insurance. A line that I find works really well is 'No thanks it's only X, if it breaks I'll buy a new one' it's amazing how fast that shuts them up.
ah.. but then I would guess she had no difficulty using windows either..I'm refering to the people that have a hard time matching up moving the mouse with where the pointer goes on the screen...and pretty don't recognise buttons as being buttons... it's amazing the things you don't realise you just *know* until you watch someone that really has absolutly no clue. My mother inlaw can use e-mail, but given a different computer to her own couldn't even figure out how to switch it on... Linux is a LONG way from ready for those people...(and I'm not sure I'd ever want it to be)
I think is what they expect to happen. and they're probably right, I use Linux on a desktop, but I know too many people that can't even cope with Windows which (despite it's flaws) goes out of it's way to be easy enough for a child to use. Linux is great, but it's not for the masses, and there is no money to be made with Linux on the desktop (well not much) the likes of IBM invest in linux for servers becuase they can then sell the hardware and the support, but that means investment in making it a first class server OS, and not much on making it an easy-to-use desktop environment. I think redhat realise that proprietary UNIX's are their only real space to grow in.
So after a few years of r&D half a dozen custom built protoypes (to be discarded as non-biodegradable junk) and other discarded parts they can have something that probably took more energy to make than a small town uses in a year, but then fly it around the world using only energy from the sun...I suppose it will be a cool engineering achievement.
'I don't know if you looked around before you left, but we've GOT rock! just laying about... oh wait Neil did you hear,.. while you were gone rock went up 3 points....no it didn't.. becuase it's just ROCK' --Eddie Izzard
"Krastof told investigators that he had no idea the stolen computer in his home contained a treasure trove of customer data for anyone interested in ripping off people's identities." Wow, really? how suprising, when caught with a stolen laptop (for which he presumably had to go to some lengths to steal from an office (mine has cameras, motion sensors, gaurds etc)) he admits the theft (hard to deny it) but not that he intended to use the information...becuase it must of been SUCH an opportunistic crime, just happened to be walking past the building.. no idea what they do..and I tripped..stumbled past reception, up 10 floors and round a bend, where I just lent on a door (to catch my breath) and blow me if it didn't just swing open...and there on a desk was the laptop, which I admit that I stole (now you've found me with it) but all that data? which any normal theif looking for hardware would of just formatted away? nope I had nooooo idea...
That would save them time, so far I have to pay a tax because I own a tv (incase I break a habbit of a lifetime and actually watch a BBC channel) tax on the fuel in my car, which I paid tax to buy, and pay tax to actually drive it anywhere, oh and of course I paid tax to earn the money in the first place. If this kind of thing catches on I'll soon be paying tax on my net connection, and hey why not just tax my ears whilst you're at it, wouldn't want me just listening to any old thing without paying someone for the prvilage...
Does anyone else just wish the judge will just turn around and say 'hey your both trying to compel each other to move along faster, and SCO I see wants to try to move on with licencing attempts, so I tell you what, lets get this done right here right now, no more waiting 17 months....' I mean SCO is so 'confident' I'd love to see Darl's face if told his day in court gets to be in a week instead of a year and half...