So you're saying that you spent 2 hours acquiring and gathering hardware, assembling hardware, installing the OS, installing & configuring the software, networking the box, and settting it up in your living room w/ a remote control?
If so, then you should do that for a living. But I really doubt it. Maybe you spent 2 hours on the actual myth-config part of that, but you have to include everything else.
I have an old 1GHz computer that was given to me. It takes about 30 min to install xubuntu on, let's say 33 minutes to allow time to insert a newly purchased tuner card. All the mythtv packages are now in the Edgy repos. A simple apt-get and 15 min later mythtv is working. I use a Hauppauge tuner card so I have to build the firmware, but that takes all of 2 min. It also takes, at most, 10 min to register for the TV listing updates, and that is only required the first time you make a myth box. All in all it takes me under an hour to get MythTV up and running. Granted I'm not a total n00b, but there's a nice guide at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV that should be easy enough for most interested parties to cut & paste their way through in under 2 hours. I'm not contesting that most people would rather have a ready-made product, but it is very possible to get it working myth box in under two hours.
Here's what Mark Twain had to say about mormon chicks:
the Mormon women... these poor, ungainly and pathetically "homely" creatures... the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure - and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations should stand uncovered in his presence and worship in silence.
I think Mark might have been a little bitter. When Mark and his party were visiting with Brigham Young, Mark tried to bait Brigham into giving him a few quotes on politics and such for his book. As anyone who's read any of Mark's books should know, he can be a real witty brat. This definitely provides for good reading, but can be rather bothersome in real life. Brigham simply ignored Mark while addressing the party, as an adult might do to a precocious child. Unremarkably, the 'precocious child' resented this treatment. There is even a quote in Marks own book that refers to this:
"He [Brigham Young] was very simply dressed and was just taking off a straw hat as we entered. He talked about Utah, and the Indians, and Nevada, and general American matters and questions, with our secretary and certain government officials who came with us. But he never paid any attention to me, notwithstanding I made several attempts to 'draw him out' on federal politics and his high handed attitude toward Congress. . . . But he merely looked around at me, at distant intervals, something as I have seen a benignant old cat look around to see which kitten was meddling with her tail. By and by, I subsided into an indignant silence, and so sat until the end, hot and flushed, and execrating him in my heart for an ignorant savage. But he was calm. . . . When the audience was ended and we were retiring from the presence, he put his hand on my head, beamed down on me in an admiring way and said to my brother: 'Ah--your child, I presume? Boy, or girl?'"
(Mark Twain, Roughing It [Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1872], 112-13.)
1. Stores use fluorescent lighting which you are unlikely to have in your living room.
Quite a few people have florescent lights in their living rooms. Maybe not the big tubes, but the small ones that screw in to your lamp. I have 4 floor lamps with nice bright florescent bulbs, and the 4 of them togeather burn cooler and cheaper than one 100w incandescent bulb.
Now, I'm not sure if these bulbs have the same drawbacks as the big tubes, concerning TV's.
I wouldn't touch a Linux box that's more than a year old.
Ever heard of security updates? I've got some Linux boxen that are more that a few years old. They're just as secure as any new box that I set up. They automatically download any security updates, and save the old configuration incase I need to revert.
With Debian 'speeding up' their releases, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS(Long Tearm Service) is looking better to the parent poster. They are guaranteeing 5 years of security support for that version. That means that your box won't have "code that is more than a year old" where it counts.
Or do I have to cross my fingers and only step out in front of cars built by Jaguar?
I suppose that a Jaguar would be the ideal car to be hit by. Either they're going fast enough to kill you instantly, without suffering, or slow enough that mesh net would save you from too much damage. Either way, you can bet that they've got good insurance and you or your heir will get a good settlement!
We're not talking about governing the whole internet, but the ROOT SERVERS, which the US DOES OWN.
I agree it would be a sad thing to have seperatly governed internets that would have to be joined by mutually governed servers. We'd end up with tons of problems like they are having in China.
The deal is though, the US pwns the internet ROOT SERVERS, and will hopefully continue to excersize its rights to govern them.
we did technically make it, so why can't we govern it?
Sigh. As has been pointed out ad-nauseum, this is a non-sequiteur. Should the US control the world's telephone system because AGB invented the telephone? Should us Brits control the world's railways because we invented the railway?
I think you missed the verbage there. He didn't say invent, but make.
No one is saying that the U.S. should control the usage of ALL DNS servers because they invented the technology; however, no one else has the right to manage the servers or network that were made in the U.S. simply because they can connect to them.
It'd be like China trying to control London Station because they have lines that connect somewhere.
Feel free to disconnect from our network and start your own if you don't like our rules (which have been pretty fair so far.
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Then if I want to do my own debugging, I should only put half my effort into coding!
I can't wait to see how MythBusters does this one!
Jamie: "We've recreated a volcano here in our workshop."
Adam: "We're now going to see how high Buster will be launched when the volcano erupts."
Both: "The pain, the pain!" (as a flaming buster lands on them)
Anybody want a peanut?
We're not talking about governing the whole internet, but the ROOT SERVERS, which the US DOES OWN.
I agree it would be a sad thing to have seperatly governed internets that would have to be joined by mutually governed servers. We'd end up with tons of problems like they are having in China.
The deal is though, the US pwns the internet ROOT SERVERS, and will hopefully continue to excersize its rights to govern them.
I think you missed the verbage there. He didn't say invent, but make.
No one is saying that the U.S. should control the usage of ALL DNS servers because they invented the technology; however, no one else has the right to manage the servers or network that were made in the U.S. simply because they can connect to them.
It'd be like China trying to control London Station because they have lines that connect somewhere.
Feel free to disconnect from our network and start your own if you don't like our rules (which have been pretty fair so far.