Monthly Archives: August 2007

Updating MythTV on Ubuntu

By arfore | Published: August 31, 2007
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 [...]
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MythTV 0.20.2 supporting SD

By arfore | Published: August 30, 2007
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, [...]
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Tik-Tok Lives Again

By arfore | Published: August 23, 2007
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 [...]
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Burma Shave

By arfore | Published: August 20, 2007
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 [...]
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A sign of crazy, or maybe not

By arfore | Published: August 14, 2007
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, [...]
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