Well, this little issue hit me with a brief feeling of deja-vu.  It is the exact same trouble that I faced trying to get Nessus security scanner frontend to write data to a MySQL database.  I don’t know when exactly it changed, but new versions of MySQL writes passwords in a hashed table (and perhaps a new location, too) so that older apps trying to...

I’m very happy with MythTV up to this point. It is no where near as fragile as I feared it might be–in fact, it seems to be quite robust. A recent power outage knocked its pins out from under it, but by the time I checked, the machine was already back up and running. Part of that is the BIOS setting “Last State on Power Restore,” but if the...

Last night completed the second to the last step of my Mythbuntu adventure:  Adding in the second hard drive. Well, this would all be easier if I wasn’t trying to do it so low rent.  Right now in the Myth box there is only 512MB of RAM and two 40GB Western Digital Hard drives.  After everything is setup that only gives me about 65-ish GB for video...

Just a quick update:  I can watch TV through MPlayer now.  Now that I have all of the IVTV drivers installed correctly, it is a simple matter of opening a terminal and telling MPlayer to access that device: mplayer /dev/video0 But I still can’t get LiveTV inside Myth.  And when I tell it to record, it starts a .NUV file, but the size never grows...

[photopress:denon_cable.jpg,full,centered] Maybe I need one of these.  Yes, if you click on the link, Denon really wants $500.00 for an ethernet cable.  And while you’re there, read the reviews–they are hilarious.  I particularly liked the one about this cable can expand the digital range beyond just the pedestrian zeros and ones–this cable...