Heh, the LCA2007 planet is running in a timezone offset from Sydney time by one hour. I wonder how many people that will confuse? Oh, and holy crap does it aggregate quickly.
Am I really the first?
I find it a little hard to believe I am the first to use an Intel Core 2 Duo for MythTV stuff, but I can’t find anyone else reporting this to the MythTV users list… mythtv@mythtv2:~/Desktop/mythtv-0.20$ ./configure *** WARNING *** Your CPU was not detected properly: uname -m: i686 uname -p: unknown model name: Intel(R)…
Updated: linux.conf.au 2007 MythTV tutorial homework
The final version of the MythTV tutorial homework is online. I promise no more changes now (unless they’re minor bug fixes), mainly because I get on a plane in 9 hours to come to Australia. Note that the bottom of the homework gives the details for a VMWare image if you’re too lazy to do…
Updated: linux.conf.au 2007 MythTV tutorial homework
I spent the afternoon updating the linux.conf.au MythTV tutorial homework. I did all the homework on a VMWare virtual machine, and it took me about four hours to complete, given that compilation was slow for me in the virtual machine, but downloading was fast. Next steps are adding ffmpeg setup to the homework, and putting…
For Christmas I would like…
One of these things in every room at every open source conference. Get on that please.
First cut of the tutorial homework is ready
Stewart and I are just now putting the finishing touches on our MythTV tutorial for linux.conf.au. Because it’s a tutorial and is therefore meant to be hands one we want people to come along with a machine which is configured so it can take part in a bunch of the demos. To that end we…
Recovering lost MythTV recordings
I had one of those moments tonight, and accidentally dropped the mythconverg database on my production MythTV instance, not the development one. This made me sad. Luckily I had a backup which was only a week old (although I am now running night backups of that database). Recovery wasn’t too bad once I wrote some…
Importing downloaded videos as recordings into MythTV
I’ve been playing with downloading videos and treating them as recordings in MythTV because the MythTV player is nicer than Xine, and because it works well as a demo for the linux.conf.au tutorial I am working on at the moment. I wont document it here because it’s not quite ready, but it’s actually quite easy…
There is a reason Ikea is crowded on the weekends
It only just occurred to me the other day, but I now know why Ikea is so crowded on the weekends. Sure, the cheap furniture is attractive, but I think it’s also go something to do with: Free child care Free nappies and baby change facilities! Bathrooms which are actually designed to be the right…
They all use MySQL…
I was walking down Mountain View’s Castro Street this afternoon, and noticed that meebo is advertising for developers and system admins. Interestingly, they seem to match the design pattern used by pretty much every web 2.0 company I have seen around here (except MySpace): linux, MySQL, and Ajax. So, there you go.