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 be available. I went ahead and just got everything and have suffered no ill effects.
After updating, make sure to shutdown the backend before running mythtv-setup to change the data provider.
sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop
After running mythtv-setup, make sure that you start the backend back up, then run mythfilldatabase.
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 12:00 a.m., 08-01-07 Zap2It Labs goes dark.
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 a combined effort between Todd McFarlane and Josh Olson.
One can only hope that McFarlane will restrain his tendencies a little and not produce a product that is as out-of-touch with the original concepts of the books in the way that his Twisted Land of Oz action figures are.
I think that it is great that he wants to update the series and make it “more 2007,” but please don’t warp the childhood of millions by turning Dorothy into a dominatrix.
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 advertising slogans on signs up and down the roads in the US. For more on this, you can check out the article at Wikipedia.
Here’s you a good one:
The wife Who keeps on Being kissed Always heads Her shopping list
Burma-Shave
It’s always nice to see that the Internet is being used to keep alive parts of our culture that might otherwise go by the wayside of progress.
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 appeared to be talking to an invisible companion.
Since the advent of the bluetooth headset and it’s popularity, this has become less and less of a tell. How are you to know that the person standing next to you in the convenience store looking for a soda is really talking to an invisible companion, themselves, you, or someone on the phone?
Welcome to the world where talking to yourself for no apparent reason may cease to be thought of as mental instability!