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Submission + - How to use bluetooth headset with office phones? (simplymission.com)

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peterdaly
peterdaly writes: "I'm in the market for a new headset for my desk phone at work. The popular "high quality" wireless headsets that work with office phones seems to start at $200 and go up from there. Knowing what the technology costs for cellphones, I can't help but feel like that's a rip-off. What I'd really like to do is take a high quality bluetooth headset, like what is popular with cellphones, and find a base that it will talk to that will hook-up to my desk (office/pbx) phone. Doesn't seem like a lot to ask, but I'm unable to find any product that seems to fit that description. Does such a project exist? I can't be the only person wanting to do this."
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Submission + - Google to Microsoft - Enough of the buggy whips (mythpvr.com)

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peterdaly
peterdaly writes: "I think the media has it wrong. Google Chrome is not about an attack on Microsoft, but the real story isn't as mass media friendly...it's about the technology, or lack there-of. None of the current browsers have made the serious advances needed to allow further advancement of serious web applications. Google had not choice but to take matters into their own hands.

Are the current iterations of Firefox and IE the buggy whip industry, getting their first glimpse of the Model T?"
Media

Submission + - Install MythTV Screencast - MythDora 5 (mythpvr.com)

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peterdaly
peterdaly writes: "MythPVR.com has posted a three part screencast of the process of installing MythTV using the MythDora distribution. MythTV is the Linux based open source DVR.

As MythDora installs MythTV and Linux, it will format your hard drive, install all the MythTV components, and walk you through the configuration of the critical components.

Popular MythTV features include the ability to detect and remove commercials, a web interface, and client server architecture you can use to build a distributed DVR for your entire house. MythDora is designed to transform a spare PC with a TV tuner card into DVR appliance similar to Tivo."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Mythbuntu 1.0 Overview and Install Walk-through (mythpvr.com)

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peterdaly
peterdaly writes: "Mythbuntu has recently released version 1.0 of their MythTV centric Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Justin Garrison has written an excellent five page Mythbuntu overview that gives a walk-through of the Mythbuntu installation and highlights the key features that makes Mythbuntu different from KnoppMyth and MythDora, the other popular MythTV Linux Distributions. A distinguishing feature is that it can be installed on top of an existing Ubuntu 7.10 system using a simple installer. MythTV is a popular DVR (digital video recorder) application for Linux."
Media

Submission + - MythTV Install Screencast - MythDora 4.0

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peterdaly
peterdaly writes: "MythDora 4 is a MythTV 'in-a-box' style distribution based on Fedora Core 6. With the help of a RedHat Employee and Author Jarod Wilson, MythDora 4 has made great strides in hardware compatability and ease of installation. It is designed to format your hard drive and install everything needed for a fully functional MythTV System. MythPVR.com has created a three part screencast of the installation process covering, MythDora Installation, Configuration, and MythTV Setup.

If you have had problem installing MythTV in the past due to hardware compatibility problems, the improvements make this is a great version to give another chance."

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