I've had many iterations of hardware over the last 7 years. Trust me, it's not the hardware. I've spent more money on hardware for this thing than I ever should have.

I ran MythTV for six years. The last year I've used SageTV. I got sick of MythTV locking up, crashing, and the constant non-stop twiddling with my configuration because I could never get things quite right.

SageTV isn't much better. I spend a lot less time twiddling, but it crashes and freezes about as often as MythTV used to. I'm still looking for that HTPC that just works. I haven't found it yet.

Must be nice. I paid 10x that for my private uni and I'm not sure it was worth the extra $$$. What I use at work, to this day, a decade later, is still mostly self taught.

Yes, because we all know everybody has a cow in their back yard and a generator in their basement.

Things change. Computing will become more utility like. Adapt or die.

Go drive a Pontiac G8 or a 2009 Cadilac CTS. Ever driven a Corvette? Even the 2009 Impala is a pretty nice car. My buddy's mid 90's Pontiac Bonnevile got about 180,000 miles on it with no major work when he finally junked it. My 91 Grand Am wasn't a great car, but it was good enough for the price and got the job done without too much hassle. My father has an 84 Corvette. It's not the best Corvette ever made, but it's still a great ride.

Not all GM cars are bad. Some are really bad, yes, but GM has made good cars and will make more good cars in the future. We just need to prod them enough so that ALL their cars are good.

Who wants to fiddle with lirc? I just want my shit to work. I'm sick of fiddling. I've got better things to do with my time.

I have that case. That is an awesome case.

Thanks everybody. That little icon is so not intuitive. I never even saw it until you guys pointed it out.

Bryan

I've been looking in Google Maps for this mythical "My Location" feature and I can't seem to find it. What am I doing wrong? I've got my default location setup, but I'm pretty sure that's not what they referring to.

Bryan

He came to my university my freshman year where he was supposed to give an hour long speech about censorship. Instead, he gave an hour long speech about how awesome he was and all these cool awards he earned throughout his life.

Honestly, I don't care how great his books are, he's an idiot.

Bryan

SHE SHOULD GET A SECOND PHONE!!

Better yet, she can even have return calls ROUTED TO HER OFFICE!

Why is this concept so difficult to understand??

You know what, a doctor makes more than enough money that he can afford a second phone dedicated to work and does not and should not be using his home phone.

FYI, I had no luck trying to download this using Firefox on my Mac. I had to boot up my VMWare Windows instance and start the download using IE 7.0. The download forces you to install a new download manager ActiveX control.

I would've preferred a torrent...

Notebooks? What about Media Center PCs?

Watching TV. In the middle of a program. PC locks up, I'm going to miss the climax!

Reboot PC.

10 minutes later you resume watching, but it's too late, the show is over.

That SUCKS! And trust me, it doesn't matter how careful you are picking out your hardware, or configuring your software. That WILL happen, the software stack just isn't reliable enough to avoid problems like this.

Instant-on would be a godsend for us HTPC users.