Dec
6
sudo make me a sandwhich
Category: Geek Love, Holidays, family, xkcd |
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I think that the single largest source of mirth at the Thanksgiving dinner was Dan’s xkcd tshirt. Dan and I were the only ones who knew what this meant. Dave was the only other person capable of grasping it. Everyone else kept asking Dan to explain the shirt over and over. No matter how many ways he tried to do it, the response was always “I don’t get it”. Later on the response was a sarcastic “OK”. Later on in the evening/night everyone was sudo ordering people to do things even though they had no idea what that meant. The person who was ordered to do something would invariably answer “OK!” IT was hilarious and maddening at the same time.
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Dec
6
MythTv Update
Category: Fedora, Geek Love, tv |
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Well, I’ve have my MythTv box for about 24 hours now. I have figured out everything that was bugging me about the system except for the remote control. I hear this may require some compiling on my end. Not something I’m fond of, but I’ve done it before, so it shouldn’t be too bad.
So I went from not knowing what to record last night to now having 16 programs to record over the next two weeks. I’m not too worried about filling the drive because I can hold approximately 250 hours of programming before the hard drive gets full. Most of these episodes are things I would probably only watch once anyway, so I’ll probably be deleting them once I watch them.
Overall I’m very happy with the experience. Given how much I plan on using it, I think it’s been worth the time and money I’ve put into it. One of the plugins I think is really neat is one that has to do with Netflix, we can browse and move the queue around. So if we’re watching Tv and a DVD commercial comes on, we don’t need to go to the computer to confirm whether we have it on our list.
Next on my list is getting the remote working (hopefully this weekend) and getting the emulators setup via the Mythgame plugin. Other than that I’ll just be playing around with it and getting more and more comfortable with it. If, like me, you find yourself always complaining that all the good shows you want to watch are on while you’re asleep or at work and when you’re free there’s nothing to watch, I’d definitely recommend a myth tv box, especially if you are technical/geeky enough to install it on your own.
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Tags: MythTv, Mythdora, PVR, DVR
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