30 January 13 - 19:41A memorial you have to see
The Aaron Swartz's memorial is well worth watching. You will see a real live example of what Cory Doctorow's hero in Little Brother went through.
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06 December 12 - 19:03Make your web directories nicer with h5ai
When you provide a directory for files to be browsed on an apache server it looks like 1990. Even gopher had a better looking interface. Today I stumbled upon h5ai, which makes it look and feel like a 2012 frontend! I now use mythlink.pl to generate a fake directory listing of my MythTV files to /var/www/MythTV/ to enable me to download a recording really quick without needing to go through MythWeb.
perl /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/user_jobs/mythlink.pl --link /var/www/MythTV/ --format '%U/%T/%T%-%S'
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03 December 12 - 19:05Does the universe have a purpose?
A near perfect animation to the words of Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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30 July 12 - 19:48Mythbuntu packages with many patches from LVR
I have been using LVRs patches for a few weeks. They provide some nice features I have been missing, here two examples:
- Get preview in files without a seektable: I use my own copy of mythnettv that imports shows from sites like youtube. The preview I used to get was a black first frame, now it works perfectly.
- OSD that shows audio levels: check out the screenshot
Many more are also useful, especially for UK users on Freesat.
Today I started posting the Mythbuntu development packages to my PPA with these patches. Check them out here. Be aware that I don't usually have the time to realy test these packages, so make backups of your database before you use them!
Update: No need to keep the packages as all relevant patches are now in mainline MythTV
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20 July 12 - 10:49Recht auf Beschneidung?
Jungen beschneiden GEIL, Mädchen beschneiden PFUI... Doppelmoral? Komiker-Nationen: Schweden und Finnland!
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeskanzlerin-merkel-warnt-vor-beschneidungsverbot-a-844671.html
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07 June 12 - 12:20mythnettv with YouTube RSS feed support
I have released a small update to the mythnettv code I maintain for myself. Besides some other changes I have made in the last few months the latest addition might be of interest to those who want to import YouTube videos into the MythTV Recodings screen. You can get my copy of mythnettv here and make sure to read the README file as many new exotic dependencies have been added differing from the original code made by Michael.
To sum it up, you can now take a link like "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdU-UtEJEIA" and download it into MythTV. Or you can take a RSS feed like "http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/AtheistFoundation/videos.rss" and subscribe to it.
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01 June 12 - 10:22Live of Brian full debate 1979
Just last easter we watched Life of Brian with a few friends. After it we talked about how the movie was banned in many places, but many of my friends did not know that. We searched for the full debate I remembered having seen, but did not find it. Well here it is:
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09 May 12 - 13:33Neue deutsche HD Sender und MythTV
Bei MythTV Talk wurde die Frage gestellt wie man am besten die neuen HD-Sender in MythTV übernimmt ohne die Sendernummerierung zu verlieren. Hier nochmal zusammengefasst:
- Mit "/usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl --verbose" sollte man sich auf alle Fälle erst ein Backup machen
- dann diese Datei (channel_numbers_update_de.sql) auf den Server runterladen
- über z.B. mythweb sich die jetzige Sendernummerierung in die runter geladene Datei übernehmen oder die dort vorgeschlagene belassen. "channum=1" steht für die Sendernummer.
- danach mit "sudo mythtv-setup" einen neuen Senderdrurchlauf starten und "alle Transponder" und "neue Transpoder suchen" auswählen.
- jetzt sollten die neuen Sender existieren, aber die Nummern mit keiner Ordnung vorliegen.
- der Befehl "mysql --database=mythconverg --user=mythtv --password=meinpword < channel_numbers_update_de.sql" ändert dann die Sendernummern. Alles OK.
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