I wanted a TV for my office, but I didn’t have room. So I got a cheap TV tuner card and slapped it in my Linux box. To my indescribable shock, it worked! No config, no fiddling, it just worked! That’s the thing with Linux – if it just works, it’s great. If it doesn’t work right away, you’re going to slog through hell and it probably won’t work anyway.
Observe! You got your TV in my computer!
I’ve looked at installing MythTV (an open source personal video recorder, like a Tivo), so I can maybe get out of my monthly ReplayTV payment, but the install process looks horrendous. A installation guide that starts with “First, install a new package manager” does not fill me with confidence. That’s the computing equivalent of somebody telling you, “To change your oil, first repaint your car.” Some idiot thinks you should conform to their opinion before you can use their toys.
Observe, it looks like what’s her name.
ninetees called, they want their monitor back.
Monitors are good long-term investments. I bought that sucker in, oh, ’96, and I don’t forsee getting rid of it until it dies. Great res, great color, it’s a work of art.
TRINITRON 4 LIFE
–riney
It is. I had it tuned to G4 but I wasn’t watching it. When I picked up my camera and turned around, there she was. I’m not stalking, she’s following me!
–riney
That’s the monitor I jumped off the back of a truck with (they were donated to Pinewood) and chipped my tooth. It was too “weighty” and knocked me off-balance…Granted I probably should have known better, but it was the last one and I was more interested in setting the “new” computers up as opposed to my own safety. The thing broke its base off but the monitor kept on keeping on. I was just disappointed that they made me go to the nurse to get my nice little leg gash looked at instead of working on the computer. Something about insurance and blood and whatnot. I kept telling them I didn’t care, but they were probably fearing a lawsuit or something…it took longer than the time I had to fill out an incident report for cracking my head open on the little merry-go-round thingy at recess. Um, digression…Really good monitor.
Yeeowch. Yeah, jumping off things while carrying a 45 pound lump of awkwardly balanced glass and metal is contraindicated.
–riney