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This is the fifth book in the Robot City series. I think its actually the best written of those that I have read so far. The story makes sense, isn’t hard to believe like some of the others, and the dialog doesn’t feel wooden. Title: Refuge Author: Rob Chilson Genre: Fiction Release Date: 1988 Pages:…
Ok, so this is a classic. I hadn’t read it in years though, and it’s still awesome. Loved it. Things to note that I hadn’t thought of before — “SubEtha” is talked about a lot, that probably explains “SubEtha Edit” which is an editor I have used in the past; the term “Googleplex” is used…
Because of two examples of wiki spam today, I am restricting anonymous edits. From now on you will be required to have a wiki account before you can make an edit. That doesn’t seem all that onerous to me, and lets me avoid having to deal with spam.
The The Easy Way: Installing MythBuntu chapter is now ready. This chapter provides an overview of a basic MythBuntu installation, which is something which wasn’t covered at all in Practical MythTV, as MythBuntu wasn’t ready at the time. MythBuntu provides a simple installation and configuration option for those people who want to build a new…
I’m not a very graphical person, so I’m looking for someone to help me with a logo for the online MythTV book project — specifically I need something to replace this image: I hope you agree that the current logo lacks a certain… something. A simple logo which somehow says “book about MythTV” would be…
This is the third book in the Deverry series, and is very readable. This book is a little different from the previous two because the two plots aren’t as strongly linked as they have been in the previous two books. In previous books they’ve been interleaved, whereas in this book the first half of the…
This is a follow on to the Riftwar Series that follows Borric and Erland (Arthura’s sons) as they travel to Kesh for the Empress’ 75th birthday celebrations. Along the way they grow up quite a lot, and learn what it means to rule. To be honest, the story is ok, but a little shallow. Its…
The Selecting Hardware chapter is now ready. This chapter details the benefits of starting small, how to select the right hardware for a MythTV system if you’re building one from scratch, and what the authors use for their MythTV systems. This chapter was originally written by Stewart Smith, and this version was reviewed by Josh…
I gave a MythNetTV talk at linux.conf.au yesterday, and it went remarkably well. Hardly any fruit was thrown. I’m quite please that so far two patches have been sent to me after the talk, and questions in the talk promoted a release of version 7. I should share the following resources from the talk: the…
This release is smaller than the last one, but has some bug fixes which folk might find handy. New things in this release: Better testing: r232: Simple script to create the unit testing database New features: r210: Allow users to override the default bittorrent upload rate r212: Provide more sync information when running in verbose…