The Zap2IT forums has a thread about the shutdown (you need to have a Zap2IT login to get to the forum). One of the posts on the thread about the shutdown expands on the reasons for the free guide data shutting down: – Continued use of the service to support commercial products, in violation of…
Author: mikal
An initial analysis of the removal of Zap2IT guide data in the US
(I had some spare time while waiting for the kids to finish their breakfast, so this is posted earlier than I planned). As mentioned briefly earlier today MythTVnews.com is reporting that Tribune Media Services (TMS) is turning off their free guide data service for MythTV on 1 September 2007. This is mainly because of claims…
Breaking: Zap2IT turning off guide data for the US?
MythTVnews.com is reporting that Tribune Media Services (TMS), the providers of the Zap2IT guide data used by MythTV in the US, will turn that guide data off on 1 September 2007. I haven’t had a lot of time to look into this further, mainly because I am giving a talk this morning. I’ll have a…
Implementing parental filters with MythTV
The other morning I walked out to my five year old watching Robot Chicken. This isn’t what I would call the highlight of my parenting career, but it did leave me with an immediate need to come up with a solution to stopping the kids from watching inappropriate things now that they’re big enough to…
How to transcode video for the Nokia N800
I have a Nokia N800 that I haven’t had much time to play with, but I am about to go away on a trip which will involve a lot of time commuting on buses, so I figure I should start thinking about it again. Luckily for me, this page has pretty good instructions of what…
Building a symlink tree for MythTV recordings
I wanted to build a directory of symlinks that pointed to my MythTV recordings, so I wrote a little python script to do it for me. I figure someone else might find this useful too… #!/usr/bin/python # Copyright (C) Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) 2007 # Released under the terms of the GNU GPL import MySQLdb import…
How do you spot the Australian kids in an American playground?
They’re the ones wearing hats. Despite it being noon, the various American kids at the playground all lacked sun protection. In fact, they pretty much all lacked practical clothing, it was all way too dressy. Americans don’t seem to have figured out skin cancer at all in fact, every weekend there are bikini clad young…
Review
“If you’re interested in setting up a PVR, then this is definitely a book to check out. Apress sells the paper version for $30, and offers an eBook for $15. Amazon offers it for $19.79, but I doubt that price will last long. I definitely give this book a 5 out of 5…” http://www.yeraze.com/article.php/20070603160650701
Is there any way to access the match text in MySQL rlike selects?
Hi. I am doing a select like this in MySQL 5: select * from foo where bar rlike ‘(.*),(.*)’; The specific example here is made up. Anyway, I’d like to be able to get to the matched text from bar, like I can with various languages regexp libraries. Is this functionality exposed at all in…
Apparently I am ruder in the office than I realise
Some quotes from the Dublin office last week make me think that I might owe “Master N” (as he will be called) an apology. Master N, you’re nothing like a butterfly. You don’t have wings.