Yep, I've been grabbing shows from btefnet - mainly the network ones that I get anyway - and it's really so much nicer & faster to watch them sans commercials. The downsides are that it takes a long time to download them, and that I have no control over what I get - someone else has to post it. Enter (someday) MythTV:)
Not having had any hands-on experience with MythTV whatsoever, I will certainly tell you what I know:)
I understand that the regular MythTV installation is pretty intense. KnoppMyth will probably be better but, yes, it will overwrite your current system. The frontend (i.e. the pretty pictures and widgets) will run off the CD on a minimal system, but the backend (the bit that does the heavy encoding/decoding) needs reasonably good hardware and has to be on a hard-drive based distro.
You should check on your hardware too; you need to make sure that you have a compatible TV capture card, among other things. If you're buying one, it looks like Hauppage 350's are pretty good for this.
That said, it looks like the documentation is good, and you should be able to get it running on your Suse box. And you can take advantage of another thing that OS does better than MS - support forums!:) Good luck
Approximately once every two weeks, I am nearly overcome by how cool MythTV looks, and I almost start putting a system together. Then I remember that I don't have cable, and I don't particularly want to spend MORE time watching TV than I already do. It would almost be worth it, though, to play with MythTV... Anyone want to donate $40/month or so?
Anyway, this is another example: MS does it, but Open Source does it better.
It's not entirely about free (as in speech) choice, although that's part of it... among other things, it's about raising the standards of software practices. It would make the 'Net a more secure, more stable system if more standards and software were subject to the most rigorous scrutiny possible. At this point, the open source model is the best thing there is for knowing that everything is as bug-free as possible. Two (or thousands of) heads being better than one. Except for improving the general quality of systems on a network, I could care less whether people I don't know want to use MS. But the MS vs Linux debate does affect everyone, ultimately, because we're all on the same network.
I can see it coming. Before any means of conveying useful information is anywhere near complete, this system will already be used to track your driving habits and display tailored advertising information.
"Hi JOHN Q PUBLIC! We noticed you didn't seem to stay long at the mall! Why don't you try the excellent selection, low prices, and soul-sucking faceless consumerism at WAL-MART? Just take a left up here on Big Brother Boulevard..."
... that the Earth isn't perfectly circular, doesn't orbit the sun in a perfectly circular orbit, at right angles to its axis, and at a distance that ensures that measurements of human time correspond to base-10 multiples of the oscillations of cesium atoms. Proof that $deity wasn't a hacker.
How do you put these phrases on the same web page and expect people to take you seriously?...greatly facilitating international understanding... but those folks live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They don't care what day it is anyway!
Why is consulting a massive list of arbitrary years with no rule for predicting them easier than the leap year system?
... you can compile the firmware under Linux. Right now, you need to use the TI-provided Windows-based compiler (and you have to register to get it); but wouldn't it be great if someone figured out how to get gcc to compile for the TI DSP chip in the Neuros?
I believe that FLAC still has to be written for non-floating-point processing. They had to write a similar port (Tremor) for Ogg before it would work on this unit. I hope they do this for Speex as well... this would allow any willing manufacturer to include support for all three formats. I remember reading a while back that Xiph will donate engineer time to any manufacturer interested in including Vorbis support.
I carry nearly 5,000 tracks on my Neuros player. It's full, and I have more to put on, but I can't bring myself to remove anything, even the stuff I always skip when it comes on. At this very moment, in the bag I usually have with me, I have no less than 4 linux liveCDs (Ubuntu, Knoppix, SLAX, SUSE) and one disc containing utilities for fixing up Windows. Not only that, but I've tried to make my home server as accessible as possible from everywhere, including my entire music collection (gnump3d), ftp, web, ssh (w/vnc), mail, etc. For a while, I was downloading movies and shows and saving them on CD, although I don't do that much anymore. Oh, and I also carry a few SVCDs of my baby daughter around, just in case I can convince someone to watch them, plus some analog data (a book, magazines, papers, etc.) For me, it's partly practical (i.e. things I often need), partly fun (i.e. can I make my server do X)... but now that I think about it, maybe a little pathological too.
A lot of Texans (at least jokingly) like to refer to Texas as a sovereign entity, and isn't a lot of truth said in jest?
Reference bumper sticker phrases like: "Texas: It's A Whole Nuther Country", "Native Texan", "I Wasn't Born in Texas, But I Got Here As Fast As I Could," and "F*ck Y'all, I'm From Texas"
Of course, Texas was a separate country at one point...
I wonder if the education spending numbers reflect spending on actual education, or on 'educational' extras like school sports programs, transportation, nutrition, etc. Not to argue the relative merit or necessity of these programs... but the fact is that they're there, and it's possible that it just costs more to educate a U.S. student than a Czech or a Korean because of all the overhead. Maybe the U.S. just doesn't get as much bang for its bucks. Coupled with a school culture that places more value on extrascholastic activities, this would explain why you can throw a ton of money into the system and produce generations of kids who hate (and suck at) math.
GM will soon discontinue all models based on wheels carved from solid blocks of stone. AT&T has begun phasing out its line of telegraph equipment in favor of more versatile communications technology. Bed Bath and Beyond will no longer carry Black & Decker's butter churns or bellows, and the US NIST Division of Weights and Measures has recommended that hogsheads, cubits, and ells no longer be used in official government documents.
In the ZDNet article on Google's inner workings that was posted earlier on/., Urs Hölzle mentions that in the larger Google clusters, 2 machines per day will fail. They compensate for this with triple redundancy, good software for failover control, and a staff of 800(!) computer scientists. Needless to say, not everyone could manage this... there's definitely an enterprise niche for system autonomy. This also brings IBM's eFuse technology for self-repairing chips to mind.
It's difficult to prove causality in such a chaotic system as weather patterns. But according to a recent radio segment about this research, science can say that it is 'more likely than not' that human sources caused this heat wave... which incidentally tends to be the threshhold of proof for civil lawsuits. This opens up possibilities for bringing wrongful death suits against polluters for the victims of the heat wave.
This should be good... BT is without question the fastest p2p app (in fact, the only thing that has ever topped out my 'net connection), but it needs two features to kill off the others in my book:
1. Search - it's no fun to rely on third party websites to find things. Hopefully now we'll be able to do this. 2. Anonymity - BT could use an option for a system like Freenet's for making it really hard to tell who's serving who. Combined with the distributed nature of BT, it would be difficult to prove anything at all about BT users.
The article is/.ed, so I can't speak directly to Exeem, but it sounds from the blurb like these features are a possibility. Hope it's free in all senses.
Here's another thought: the current BT system is really good at dispersing new content, like distro ISOs and TV shows, through RSS feeds from central websites. It would be cool to be able to subscribe to network-wide custom feeds, to stay informed about new files that match certain criteria.
I often erratically jump out of social situations. It's a useful social technique: If people see you randomly jumping around for no reason, they sure as hell aren't going to go talk to you.
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Hasn't lightning struck again with the iPod? I wonder if the lightning analogy makes sense... maybe they're just good...?
... there go the blue states :(
... I think we can be reasonably certain that our brand-new, fully-functioning ballistic missile defense system will not intercept it...
In Soviet Russia, forgetting some running Slashdot gags is for old people.
Yep, I've been grabbing shows from btefnet - mainly the network ones that I get anyway - and it's really so much nicer & faster to watch them sans commercials. The downsides are that it takes a long time to download them, and that I have no control over what I get - someone else has to post it. Enter (someday) MythTV :)
Not having had any hands-on experience with MythTV whatsoever, I will certainly tell you what I know :)
:) Good luck
I understand that the regular MythTV installation is pretty intense. KnoppMyth will probably be better but, yes, it will overwrite your current system. The frontend (i.e. the pretty pictures and widgets) will run off the CD on a minimal system, but the backend (the bit that does the heavy encoding/decoding) needs reasonably good hardware and has to be on a hard-drive based distro.
You should check on your hardware too; you need to make sure that you have a compatible TV capture card, among other things. If you're buying one, it looks like Hauppage 350's are pretty good for this.
That said, it looks like the documentation is good, and you should be able to get it running on your Suse box. And you can take advantage of another thing that OS does better than MS - support forums!
Approximately once every two weeks, I am nearly overcome by how cool MythTV looks, and I almost start putting a system together. Then I remember that I don't have cable, and I don't particularly want to spend MORE time watching TV than I already do. It would almost be worth it, though, to play with MythTV... Anyone want to donate $40/month or so?
Anyway, this is another example: MS does it, but Open Source does it better.
I guess they rely on TechNet's intuitive, well-designed, and easily navigable interface to help users quickly locate the information they need.
It's not entirely about free (as in speech) choice, although that's part of it... among other things, it's about raising the standards of software practices. It would make the 'Net a more secure, more stable system if more standards and software were subject to the most rigorous scrutiny possible. At this point, the open source model is the best thing there is for knowing that everything is as bug-free as possible. Two (or thousands of) heads being better than one. Except for improving the general quality of systems on a network, I could care less whether people I don't know want to use MS. But the MS vs Linux debate does affect everyone, ultimately, because we're all on the same network.
.../2/d/4/2d4d387b-97af-4923-897d-320fe070e864/...
...friendly URLs.
I can see it coming. Before any means of conveying useful information is anywhere near complete, this system will already be used to track your driving habits and display tailored advertising information.
"Hi JOHN Q PUBLIC! We noticed you didn't seem to stay long at the mall! Why don't you try the excellent selection, low prices, and soul-sucking faceless consumerism at WAL-MART? Just take a left up here on Big Brother Boulevard..."
... that the Earth isn't perfectly circular, doesn't orbit the sun in a perfectly circular orbit, at right angles to its axis, and at a distance that ensures that measurements of human time correspond to base-10 multiples of the oscillations of cesium atoms. Proof that $deity wasn't a hacker.
..in Soviet Russia, web searches YOU! Oh, umm...
... you can compile the firmware under Linux. Right now, you need to use the TI-provided Windows-based compiler (and you have to register to get it); but wouldn't it be great if someone figured out how to get gcc to compile for the TI DSP chip in the Neuros?
I believe that FLAC still has to be written for non-floating-point processing. They had to write a similar port (Tremor) for Ogg before it would work on this unit. I hope they do this for Speex as well ... this would allow any willing manufacturer to include support for all three formats. I remember reading a while back that Xiph will donate engineer time to any manufacturer interested in including Vorbis support.
I carry nearly 5,000 tracks on my Neuros player. It's full, and I have more to put on, but I can't bring myself to remove anything, even the stuff I always skip when it comes on. At this very moment, in the bag I usually have with me, I have no less than 4 linux liveCDs (Ubuntu, Knoppix, SLAX, SUSE) and one disc containing utilities for fixing up Windows. Not only that, but I've tried to make my home server as accessible as possible from everywhere, including my entire music collection (gnump3d), ftp, web, ssh (w/vnc), mail, etc. For a while, I was downloading movies and shows and saving them on CD, although I don't do that much anymore. Oh, and I also carry a few SVCDs of my baby daughter around, just in case I can convince someone to watch them, plus some analog data (a book, magazines, papers, etc.) For me, it's partly practical (i.e. things I often need), partly fun (i.e. can I make my server do X)... but now that I think about it, maybe a little pathological too.
A lot of Texans (at least jokingly) like to refer to Texas as a sovereign entity, and isn't a lot of truth said in jest?
Reference bumper sticker phrases like: "Texas: It's A Whole Nuther Country", "Native Texan", "I Wasn't Born in Texas, But I Got Here As Fast As I Could," and "F*ck Y'all, I'm From Texas"
Of course, Texas was a separate country at one point...
I wonder if the education spending numbers reflect spending on actual education, or on 'educational' extras like school sports programs, transportation, nutrition, etc. Not to argue the relative merit or necessity of these programs... but the fact is that they're there, and it's possible that it just costs more to educate a U.S. student than a Czech or a Korean because of all the overhead. Maybe the U.S. just doesn't get as much bang for its bucks. Coupled with a school culture that places more value on extrascholastic activities, this would explain why you can throw a ton of money into the system and produce generations of kids who hate (and suck at) math.
GM will soon discontinue all models based on wheels carved from solid blocks of stone. AT&T has begun phasing out its line of telegraph equipment in favor of more versatile communications technology. Bed Bath and Beyond will no longer carry Black & Decker's butter churns or bellows, and the US NIST Division of Weights and Measures has recommended that hogsheads, cubits, and ells no longer be used in official government documents.
In the ZDNet article on Google's inner workings that was posted earlier on /., Urs Hölzle mentions that in the larger Google clusters, 2 machines per day will fail. They compensate for this with triple redundancy, good software for failover control, and a staff of 800(!) computer scientists. Needless to say, not everyone could manage this... there's definitely an enterprise niche for system autonomy. This also brings IBM's eFuse technology for self-repairing chips to mind.
lokitorrent is still down as of Friday morning... ouch.
It's difficult to prove causality in such a chaotic system as weather patterns. But according to a recent radio segment about this research, science can say that it is 'more likely than not' that human sources caused this heat wave... which incidentally tends to be the threshhold of proof for civil lawsuits. This opens up possibilities for bringing wrongful death suits against polluters for the victims of the heat wave.
"...being kept very quiet" (until now)
/.ed, so I can't speak directly to Exeem, but it sounds from the blurb like these features are a possibility. Hope it's free in all senses.
This should be good... BT is without question the fastest p2p app (in fact, the only thing that has ever topped out my 'net connection), but it needs two features to kill off the others in my book:
1. Search - it's no fun to rely on third party websites to find things. Hopefully now we'll be able to do this.
2. Anonymity - BT could use an option for a system like Freenet's for making it really hard to tell who's serving who. Combined with the distributed nature of BT, it would be difficult to prove anything at all about BT users.
The article is
Here's another thought: the current BT system is really good at dispersing new content, like distro ISOs and TV shows, through RSS feeds from central websites. It would be cool to be able to subscribe to network-wide custom feeds, to stay informed about new files that match certain criteria.
I often erratically jump out of social situations. It's a useful social technique: If people see you randomly jumping around for no reason, they sure as hell aren't going to go talk to you.
Especially if you drool.