Some good/bad news regarding HD on digital cable. It’s fairly easy to capture HD content off a digital cable box via a firewire cable. Here are some useful links:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_Firewire
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire
Firewire is nice since you don’t need a capture card as long as the content is not copy protected. The bad news is that the premium channels […]
A couple updates regarding the new HDTV and cable box. When the cable guy did the install he asked me “Do you want the integrated HDTV receiver/DVR?”. I clearly said “NO”. After playing with the cable a box a bit I heard what sounded like a hard drive spinning up. I thought myself “Did he […]
It’s been a very busy couple of days. On Thursday night I finished painting the storage room and cleaned the floor in there. On Friday morning I moved all the items into the storage room and cleaned the floor in the main area of the basement. The tv was delivered and then the cable guy […]
Today it’s Presidents Day in the United States and I get the day off. I haven’t sat on my ass all weekend. I spent the entire time painting in the mancave. Here’s the first preview picture:
More pictures will be forthcoming once everything is finished. I painted the storage room and applied a second coat in […]
Lots of things going on. First I completed my income tax returns Friday night using Turbo Tax online. I received a bunch of warning messages saying they only support Windows & Mac. I charged ahead and had zero issues. I was able to successfully do my income tax returns using my Linux workstation […]
Last night the United States men’s soccer team played their biggest rivals in a “friendly” match. The games are usually very heated. The United States has dominated the last 8 meetings going 7-0-1. What is pathetic is how the Mexican players conducted themselves showing zero sportsmanship. After the second goal the Mexican keeper, Oswaldo […]
I spent the entire weekend painting the mancave before the contractor was to start putting in the floor this week. I basically pulled an all nighter on Friday night priming the walls and ceiling. I went through almost 5 gallons of primer! The only thing that kept me moving towards the end were the metal […]