I’ve been running Mythbuntu 9.04 (MythTV 0.21) using the Avenard repo’s to get the VDPAU goodness for some time now and have been very happy. Yesterday the system updater ran and decided to pull down the 0.22 RC1 packages in the Avenard repository. During the upgrade I got a message stating “your DBSchema is 20 […]
I know OLF was a couple weeks back but I never got around to talking about it. As usual it was an absolute blast. Lots of cool people and good conversations all around. I led both the Android and MythTV birds of a feather sessions. Me and Dan Frey recorded the MythTV BOF and released […]
Well Slackware 13 was released a few weeks back and I had a chance to install it on my laptop. I ran Slackware as my main Linux distro for about 2 years. It’s reputation as being stable and solid are well earned. If you run Slackware for any significant amount of time you will learn […]
At last year’s CES show Nvidia unveiled the Ion platform. Small form factor boxes powered by Intel Ion processors and Nvidia mobile graphics cards capable of full 1080p h264 video playback! The key is that you can offload the video playback to the graphics card’s GPU. I currently have a Popcorn Hour A110 that’s […]
I took some vacation time last week and enjoyed some nice time with the family. We didn’t leave home but took some day trips and did some local activities. For the last couple of week I’ve been enjoying a new 21.5″ LCD. Besides my laptop this is my first LCD monitor. I absolutely love the […]
The idea of having an all in one device is pretty much realized with my G1 phone. It has a built-in GPS and is capable of being used as a navigation device. There is a commercial application called TeleNav which is free for the first 30 days but $10 a month thereafter. I did find […]
It was just announced that The Sarah Conner Chronicles has been canceled. What a bummer. It seems like a lot of shows I start following are getting canceled. Am I the tv Grim Reaper? Regardless it got me thinking about other great shows that showed a ton of promise but got yanked after their […]
So Canonical (the company behind) Ubuntu has released its UbuntuOne file backup service. The initial product is basically a Linux version of Dropbox. You have a folder on your machine where you put files that be accessed anywhere over the web. You can give others access to your shared folder via file browser on any […]
Well my cable company provider has finally figured out that I have the DVR HD box and were only charging me for the regular HD box. It only took them close to 2.5 years to figure it out. What tipped them off? I ordered the MLS Direct Kick season ticket package. They must of noticed […]
I’d like to announce the release of the first episode of the MythTVCast. The show will be semi-weekly with each episode about one hour in length. We’ll be covering all facets of MythTV: picking hardware components, picking a MythTV related Linux distribution, setting up peripherals, setting up and using MythTV plugins, exporting recordings to DVDs […]