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Entries from August 2007

Updating MythTV on Ubuntu

August 31st, 2007 · No Comments

In order to get the updates for Ubuntu to take MythTV to 0.20.2 you need to add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
After doing this run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
In addition to the MythTV updates a few other things should [...]

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Tags: MythTV

MythTV 0.20.2 supporting SD

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments

For those who don’t know, Zap2It Labs stopped offering free channel data for the community.
A paid for solution Schedules Direct has stepped up to the plate with a fairly inexpensive solution. In order to use it you need to update your MythTV installation.
The 0.20.2 release of MythTV supports SD.
Gentlemen, start your updates, because at [...]

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Tags: MythTV

Tik-Tok Lives Again

August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

So it seems that L. Frank Baum’s Oz book series is going to at last come to the silverscreen as a whole.
According to an article on sliceofscifi.com, Warner Bros. has purchased the film rights to all of the original 14 Oz novels, plus a fifteenth book by Ruth Plumly Thompson.
Apparently it is going to be [...]

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Tags: Culture · Movies

Burma Shave

August 20th, 2007 · No Comments

So this morning, during a momentary lull in my workday, I was perusing my huge and unorganized list of bookmarks when I ran across a bookmark to the Burma Shave section of The Fifties Web.
For those of you, like myself actually, who are to young to have witnessed them yourself, Burma Shave used to put [...]

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Tags: Culture · Rhyme · Sayings

A sign of crazy, or maybe not

August 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Yesterday walking back to the office after lunch, I was following a girl who was chattering away on her cellular phone using her wireless headset.
It occurred to me that for years on of the signs people looked for when evaluating your sanity was whether or not you talked to yourself in a conversational way, or [...]

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Tags: Culture