Comments for Newy's Blog http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog tail -f /dev/mind > blog Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:54:34 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on A few new pc items by Newy's Blog http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2009/07/20/a-few-new-pc-items/comment-page-1#comment-87 Newy's Blog Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:54:34 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/?p=837#comment-87 <strong>Ordered new motherboard...</strong> I finally ordered the rest of the parts to put together a very small and power efficient pc.  I plan to eventually put it in the living room as a mythfrontend.  It should work out great once mythtv 0.22 is released.  I have been running a test backend ... Ordered new motherboard…

I finally ordered the rest of the parts to put together a very small and power efficient pc.  I plan to eventually put it in the living room as a mythfrontend.  It should work out great once mythtv 0.22 is released.  I have been running a test backend …

]]> Comment on Flooring has been installed by bryan http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2009/07/13/flooring-has-been-installed/comment-page-1#comment-85 bryan Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:16 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/?p=831#comment-85 Looks wonderful! Hope Taylor doesn't leave any more scratches. Looks wonderful! Hope Taylor doesn’t leave any more scratches.

]]> Comment on Slow season for tv shows by bryan http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2009/06/04/slow-season-for-tv-shows/comment-page-1#comment-84 bryan Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:23:50 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/?p=818#comment-84 I'm really liking what I see in the new opensolaris with all the ZFS stuff as well. But can it run VMs well? I'm not interested in solaris zones at home nearly as much as I am at work. :) Oh, and check out the value on this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680 I’m really liking what I see in the new opensolaris with all the ZFS stuff as well. But can it run VMs well? I’m not interested in solaris zones at home nearly as much as I am at work. :)

Oh, and check out the value on this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680

]]> Comment on Thinking about getting an eye-fi card by bryan http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2009/03/26/thinking-about-getting-an-eye-fi-card/comment-page-1#comment-83 bryan Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:47:57 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/?p=807#comment-83 Most info at: http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=270 Most info at:
http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=270

]]> Comment on Thinking about getting an eye-fi card by bryan http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2009/03/26/thinking-about-getting-an-eye-fi-card/comment-page-1#comment-82 bryan Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:46:08 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/?p=807#comment-82 http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=270 http://returnbooleantrue.blogspot.com/2009/04/eye-fi-standalone-server-version-20.html http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=270
http://returnbooleantrue.blogspot.com/2009/04/eye-fi-standalone-server-version-20.html

]]> Comment on Thinking about getting an eye-fi card by bryan http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2009/03/26/thinking-about-getting-an-eye-fi-card/comment-page-1#comment-81 bryan Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:38:57 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/?p=807#comment-81 Wish I had known you were interested in one. Saw a blog or 2 a few weeks ago about this--someone wrote a program that works under linux for this. Just can't find it now. (they still complained about how slow it was though) I'll keep an eye out for it, pun intended. Wish I had known you were interested in one. Saw a blog or 2 a few weeks ago about this–someone wrote a program that works under linux for this. Just can’t find it now. (they still complained about how slow it was though) I’ll keep an eye out for it, pun intended.

]]> Comment on Thinking about switching to ubuntu gutsy for my mythtv boxes by james http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2007/10/31/thinking-about-switching-to-ubuntu-gusty-for-my-mythtv-boxes/comment-page-1#comment-80 james Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:22:19 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2007/10/31/thinking-about-switching-to-ubuntu-gusty-for-my-mythtv-boxes#comment-80 I used the a180 for testing when I first was thinking about going to digital stations ota and qam. It worked great back when I was playing around. In my current system I have two hdhomeruns (total of 4 digital tuners). I would highly recommend a hdhomerun over the a180. No driver problems and no system resources used. If you have a a180 and another card sometimes after updates or even reboots they swap around. You can use udev rules to fix that but the hdhomerun works so much better. It does the pid filtering for you so the mythbackend only has to write the data to disk. It does not have to filter out any other subchannels. If you want to use the multirecord (one digital channel can have multiple streams) then the a180 does that great. The hdhomerun can't do that in myth yet. It should be able to, just has not been written in for support from what I understand. Hope that helps a little bit. I used the a180 for testing when I first was thinking about going to digital stations ota and qam. It worked great back when I was playing around. In my current system I have two hdhomeruns (total of 4 digital tuners). I would highly recommend a hdhomerun over the a180. No driver problems and no system resources used. If you have a a180 and another card sometimes after updates or even reboots they swap around. You can use udev rules to fix that but the hdhomerun works so much better. It does the pid filtering for you so the mythbackend only has to write the data to disk. It does not have to filter out any other subchannels. If you want to use the multirecord (one digital channel can have multiple streams) then the a180 does that great. The hdhomerun can’t do that in myth yet. It should be able to, just has not been written in for support from what I understand. Hope that helps a little bit.

]]> Comment on Thinking about switching to ubuntu gutsy for my mythtv boxes by elightbo http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2007/10/31/thinking-about-switching-to-ubuntu-gusty-for-my-mythtv-boxes/comment-page-1#comment-79 elightbo Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:52:56 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2007/10/31/thinking-about-switching-to-ubuntu-gusty-for-my-mythtv-boxes#comment-79 I just bought the a180 card for my mythbuntu 8.10 system and I'm wondering if I should keep it. Supposedly there is a bug with it that will cause it to not be able to scan channels. Even with a 99% signal strength the card pulls in different channels every time. At first it didn't pull in any. Just wondering if you could share some of your experience as far as channel scanning. ~eric I just bought the a180 card for my mythbuntu 8.10 system and I’m wondering if I should keep it. Supposedly there is a bug with it that will cause it to not be able to scan channels. Even with a 99% signal strength the card pulls in different channels every time. At first it didn’t pull in any.

Just wondering if you could share some of your experience as far as channel scanning.

~eric

]]> Comment on 1080p with the new tv by james http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2008/09/24/1080p-with-the-new-tv/comment-page-1#comment-77 james Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:57:33 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/?p=717#comment-77 I really do not want to have to get another card. I really want to find a small box like the new dell or a mac mini that has everything I need integrated. Then I can either hide it behind the tv or up on the wall where the cable box is right now. I really do not want to have to get another card. I really want to find a small box like the new dell or a mac mini that has everything I need integrated. Then I can either hide it behind the tv or up on the wall where the cable box is right now.

]]> Comment on 1080p with the new tv by bryan http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2008/09/24/1080p-with-the-new-tv/comment-page-1#comment-76 bryan Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:22:11 +0000 http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/?p=717#comment-76 Looks like it is possible with an ATI/AMD card: http://www.mediaboxblog.co.uk/blog1.php/2008/08/15/howto-audio-over-hdmi-with-the-hd3200-rs Looks like it is possible with an ATI/AMD card:
http://www.mediaboxblog.co.uk/blog1.php/2008/08/15/howto-audio-over-hdmi-with-the-hd3200-rs

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