Updated: 12/1/06; 2:50:13 PM.
Ted's Radio Weblog
Mission: Interoperable. Competition breeds Innovation. Monopolies breed stagnation. Working Well with Others is Good.
        

Sunday, November 19, 2006

The GNHLUG-discuss mailing list has been abuzz for the last month with disucssions about MythTV. I've learned a lot I had not yet gleaned from the documentation:

I hadn't realized that it was possible to receive and record HDTV-level broadcasts from the analog cable feed for those "broadcast" channels in the local area.

One GNHLUG member posted his How-To on building a MythTV front-end with no noisy fans or hot hard drives. This little box would work well in the entertainment center.

A link to a great discussion of the Architecture of MythTV.

At the MerriLUG meeting on Thursday, the January topic was announced: we'll be meeting Jarod Wilson, author of the Fedora Core MythTV HowTo. That's a meeting not to miss!
10:52:31 AM    comment []


There was an great session at the Merrimack Valley Linux User Group meeting on Thursday night. Shawn K. Shea presented VMWare and he had a lot of great pointers -- hope to have a link to his slides soon. One that really caught my attention was a trick to run a dual-boot partition as a VMWare session, a great feature if you just need to run a transient app, so you can avoid the overhead of rebooting. The howto is here, but it's not for the faint of heart:

http://news.u32.net/articles/2006/07/18/running-vmware-on-a-physical-partition

Read the instructions carefully. There are several "this could destroy your parition if you're not careful" cautions along the way -- I'd make a good Ghost / partimage backup before trying this.
9:06:12 AM    comment []


© Copyright 2006 Ted Roche.   

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

  

 

November 2006
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
      1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30    
Oct   Dec


Click here to visit the Radio UserLand website.

Subscribe to "Ted's Radio Weblog" in Radio UserLand.

Click to see the XML version of this web page.

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.
Blogroll
miniXmlCoffeeMug.gif miniXmlButton.gif Byte