The kind people at the Blender Foundation sent us some copies of their latest project, “Big Buck Bunny”.
The film is about 8.5 minutes long. The animation and overall look of the film is excellent. I think it’s on par with a lot of the current computer animated films/programs being produced by Hollywood. The story […]
I went on a bit of a distro binge and installed 3 different Linux distributions on my testing drive.
First up was Fedora 9.
The positives:
the install was super easy and FAST (maybe 13 minutes)
the default desktop looks sweet, very nice artwork
the latest and greatest Gnome desktop
the system is pretty responsive and snappy
easy installation of mp3 […]
Back in the fall I picked up Hauppauge MediaMVP thin client to connect to my MythTV box:
At boot time the device dynamically gets assigned an IP address. It then searches for a boot image of MVPMC which is a embedded linux distro configured to run as a MythTV frontend. This guide is good for those […]
1. The ability to record tv programs: How the hell can you have a home entertainment system without the ability to record tv shows? This is the most basic function AppleTV doesn’t have. MythTV starts with this feature and runs with it.
2. Features: AppleTV doesn’t even come close to what MythTV can do. Yes you […]