Monthly Archives: September 2006

I've finally gotten back to working on my MythBox project. This is a project to build an embedded distribution for MythTV that will run on a high-end appliance for the backend. In other words, I want to build a distribution that can run off a IDE CF card so power […]

Back to Mythbox, finally

Sun September 24, 2006 in MythTV tagged Linux / MythTV

This blog entry tells me one thing: software developers are still stupid. Have we not learned anything from bloated Windows environments? Why don't we just tie the X environment into the kernel and then embed all our X applications inside that! WOW! Let's see if we can keep the CPU […]

OpenOffice to embed Thunderbird and Sunbird? Bleck.

Wed September 20, 2006 in Linux / Open Source tagged Linux / lwn / MythTV (updated 6798 days ago)

Linux Devices posted a story about a new Linux-based DVR from a company called Neuros that is going into beta specifically for Linux-hackers. This looks pretty cool. It would be fun to play with if I had a spare $230. But that price point is too high for me when […]

Linux-based DVR goes beta to Linux hackers

Wed September 20, 2006 in Linux / MythTV tagged Linux / MythTV

I recently did a major systems upgrade at home, moving multiple systems from FC2 and FC3 up to FC5. One of those systems holds my MythTV backend server while another is my wireless connected laptop running the MythTV frontend. Obviously, the front and backends got updated too, along with the […]

MythTV 0.20: First Impressions (plus workaround for OpenGL problem)

Mon September 18, 2006 in MythTV tagged atrpms / GIMP / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum (updated 6794 days ago)

My SSR's arrived from an eBay purchase last week. I got a set of 4 10A / 120V solid state relays for about $24 including shipping. Not a great price, but reasonable enough. I was in a hurry to get this done. I haven't tried the SSRs yet, but at […]

Holiday lighting fun

Wed September 13, 2006 in Hardware / Holiday lighting tagged holiday

After about 1 1/2 years on FC2, I finally upgraded my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop. If you read my earlier posts on installing FC2 then you know it wasn't a straight forward configuration to get everything working. I'm pleased to say that is no longer the case. FC5 covers essentially […]

Acer Aspire 1690: FC2 -> FC5 upgrade

Tue September 12, 2006 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 6804 days ago)

I've got MythTV working with a keyboard now, but the builtin IR receiver and remote are sending signals to the keyboard and I'm not to good with trying to learn how to map the remote into the keyboard driver. I managed to get the down arrow to map to a […]

MythTV and the HP de100c

Mon September 04, 2006 in de100c / Hardware / MythTV tagged lirc / MythTV

I'm building a mythclient for use at home. It's being installed on FC5 using the ATRPMS repository so I can do a simply yum install mythtv-suite. Except that there is a missing dependency that, as it turns out, is hard as hell to resolve. MythMusic depends on libmp4ff which (after […]