The Site With the Lamp: January 2008 Archives

p7131 Radio

January 22, 2008

Yipeee. After a quite a struggle, the analog TV tuner on the P7131 is working fine with mythtv and tvtime. However I cannot say the same about it's radio. The radio doesn't work at all. The only thing I can...

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raditha.com broken SSL

January 19, 2008

SSL on raditha.com has been broken for a while. That has been effecting my positioning on google. In the past almost every page on this site has been in the google index now many of them have disappeared and the...

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MythTv Working at last

January 18, 2008

After sorting out all the RPM dependencies for MythTV In finally managed to get the it installed on my media center. No I didn't use LinuxMCE, I just installed all the RPMs using yum. Unfortunately I couldn't get any audio...

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Linux MCE

January 15, 2008

Mythtv on Fedora seems to be such a pain in the neck. Perhaps I should have downloaded mythdora instead but what I decided to do after giving up on Fedora 8 was to download linux MCE. There are two flavours,...

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Mythtv is it just a myth?

January 13, 2008

Been struggling with MythTV for a nearly two weeks. It seems that MythTV is just a myth. At first I tried to install from the sources but ./configure kept on complaining about a missing liblame even when it was present...

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Fedora 8 what a bore

January 7, 2008

Each new version of Fedora seems to be worse than the last. Fedora 8 is what was installed on my new machine (which is to be a media and telephony server). The only reason that Fedora was chosen was on...

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A new machine.

January 2, 2008

Fedora 7 came and went. It passed me by, partly out of laziness and partly out of choice. That's not going to happen with Fedora 8. I have downloaded and installed it on a brand spanking new machine. This machine...

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