epia

I made notes on my upgrade from 0.20 to 0.21. The software upgrade is clean but the runtime is somewhat broken on two of my three frontends. These are my (raw) notes. Upgrading to MythTV 0.21 All upgrading was done via the ATrpms repository which provided the previous release (0.20) […]

MythTV 0.21: problems with playback profiles

Wed March 12, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged acer / atrpms / epia / Fedora / intel / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum

I’m finally getting back to using my Epia M10000 board as a MythTV frontend. The goal here is to configure it to run with a CF card for booting and a wireless card to communicate with the backend, and use the TV-output connected to our TV in the living room. […]

Bringing up MiniMyth on an EPIA M10000 using wireless

Sun October 21, 2007 in EPIA-M / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Software Development / Via Motherboards tagged epia / Fedora / graphics / Linux / MythTV / Video / wifi (updated 6033 days ago)

Working on an article for LWN.net late last night, I ran into what is apparently a well known problem. The Via Rhine driver in Linux will ocassionally disable the PXE firmware so netboots don't work anymore. I found the solution in an Linux Kernel archive early this morning. […]

EPIA-M 10000 netboot stops working

Sun June 25, 2006 in EPIA-M / Hardware / Via Motherboards tagged epia / Linux / lwn (updated 6516 days ago)

My daily trauling of news sources today brought me around to this very old article: Evolution, not revolution, in PC’s future | CNET News.com. What I found interesting about the images of future PCs is that they all look like bad sci-fi props. Visionary design my buttocks. PCs will never […]

Evolution of the PC = no design whatsoever.

Thu March 03, 2005 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged epia / MythTV (updated 6996 days ago)

The only real problem with being unemployed (aside from the whole money thing) is that you have far too much time to think of new, time consuming projects. If you’re in this industry and you’re mind isn’t twisting and crunching every time some fresh topic flies by your eyes then […]

A simple plan: open source provisioning software

Thu March 03, 2005 in Linux / Software Development tagged epia / GTK+ / Linux / Open Source / Writing (updated 6996 days ago)

Since mylast entry RLXTechnologies has folded, leaving me (yet again) on the job hunt. They aren’t actually shut down but they cut 80% of the staff. The hardware guys up in Portland got picked up by Intel, so I’ve been told. I’m not sure how manyfrom my group are left […]