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MythTV 0.23 Released 214

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @04:49AM from the record-with-daring-and-whimsey dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After six months of our new accelerated development schedule, MythTV 0.23 is now available. MythTV 0.23 brings a new event system, brand new Python bindings, the beta MythNetvision Internet video plugin, new audio code and surround sound upmixer, several new themes (Arclight and Childish), a greatly improved H.264 decoder, and fixes for analog scanning, among many others. Work towards MythTV 0.24 is in full swing, and has be progressing very well for the last several months. If all goes according to plan, MythTV 0.24 will bring a new MythUI OSD, a nearly rewritten audio subsystem capable of handling 24- and 32-bit audio and up to 8 channels of output, Blu-ray disc and disc structure playback, and various other performance, usability, and flexibility improvements."

Comment Talk to the EFF (Score 1) 404

by jllawler on Thursday August 30, 2007 @11:25AM (#20411901) Attached to: Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright

I'm surprised to see it appears that no one has mentioned the EFF. They regularly deal with issues such as these.

I'm not sure which way they'd lean on this, but they'd certainly know the answer, and may help out with legal action if there's any to be taken.

Submission + - RIAA moved to Linux

Submitted by xseedit on Sunday June 17, 2007 @02:07PM

xseedit writes: The RIAA has moved their main website www.riaa.com from IIS on W2k3 to Apache 2.2.3 on Red Hat. It appears that the move did not go quite easy as it came with an 8 hour downtime starting last Saturday around noon according to Netcraft and it is still showing a 'temporarily under construction" page. They also moved their DNS from the small company that had been hosting them for the past 4 years, Tomorrow's Solutions Today (TST Inc.), to Mindshift Technologies. One can only guess what happened there, but it seems that this came as a sudden and unplanned move as they still haven't moved the RIAA.ORG, RIAA.NET and MUSICUNITED.ORG domains that are still pointing to the TST nameservers that are no longer accepting queries for those domains. The small Service Disabled Veteran owned company, TST Inc., merits credit however. They were largely discussed back in 2003 when they started hosting the RIAA website; The Register described it even as "one of the strangest sequence of events we've ever reported", but they seemed to have managed to host the RIAA quite successfully for the past 4 years. Will Mindshift do a better job hosting one of the most reviled, and therefore attacked web sites in the world? I wonder if anybody at the RIAA or TST would care to comment why this sudden move, could it be that the almighty RIAA is being sued by it's hosting provider or maybe the sue happy company is suing it's provider? This story will most likely continue to evolve further in the next couple of days/weeks.

Giant 'Leap' for Robotics 118

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday September 15, 2006 @03:44AM from the omni-consumer-products dept.

legoburner writes "An AFP article is reporting that Toyota has developed a robot leg that can jump like a human's, an evolution from today's stiff-jointed machines. The leg is a strange-looking standalone device and Toyota claims it will enable robots to jump about, run faster and handle unpaved roads more smoothly."

It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? 715

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @10:35PM from the backup-data-density-still-lags-behind dept.

CranberryKing asks: "What is it about backups that always seems so difficult? I am trying to do a simple backup on my home XP system/s (about 30GB of files) that will write to my DVD burner. I don't want compression (most of it is MP3s, which don't compress well). I want a routine to simply write my selection to the DVD writer and spread it across however many discs are required (rather than me manually approximating and copying to each disc). I want the files on the disc readable from any system, so no proprietary backup wrapper or DAT files, please. My last attempt was using a free program that looked good called Simply Safe Backup, but it created two coasters before crashing with an unknown error. If I can just get a full backup to work smoothly, then I'll worry about scheduling, incremental, and encryption. This seems like a very common scenario for home & small offices. Is there an elegant, reliable & cheap (free) solution to this?"

Biofuel Production to Cause Water Shortages? 413

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 21, 2006 @05:27AM from the action-reaction dept.

WED Fan writes "Scientists meeting in Stockholm are reporting that increased food and biofuel production will place higher demand upon irrigation and water resources." From the article: "Demand for irrigation -- which absorbs about 74 percent of all water used by people against 18 percent for hydro-power and other industrial uses and just 8 percent for households -- was likely to surge by 2050. Many nations are also shifting to produce biofuels -- from sugarcane, corn or wood -- as a less polluting alternative to fossil fuels. Oil prices at $75 a barrel and worries about global warming are driving the shift."

Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins 530

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 21, 2006 @02:46AM from the flying-in-the-face-of-popular-opinion dept.

flergum writes "While dolphins may have big brains, laboratory rats and goldfish can outwit them. It appears that the large brains are a function of their environment rather than intelligence. From the article: 'Dolphins have a superabundance of glia and very few neurons... The dolphin's brain is not made for information processing it is designed to counter the thermal challenges of being a mammal in water.' I guess this means that the Navy will start recruiting and training goldfish for those mine search and destroy missions."

Lotus 'Agenda' Returns as Open-Source 'Chandler' 106

Posted by Hemos on Monday August 07, 2006 @10:21AM from the chander-fritz dept.

RobotRunAmok writes "Before there was Outlook, or Evolution, or The Brain, there was Lotus Agenda, a DOS-based Personal Information Manager created by Mitch Kapor. Wired is reporting that Kapor is throwing 5 Million USD at the Open Source Applications Foundation to create an open-source resurrection of this PIM-Of-The-Gods in the form of Chandler, available now as an alpha for Windows, Linux, and Mac. For the Agenda hardcore among us, it's as though Atlantis is rising..."

Ballmer Speaks on His Solo Act 196

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday July 28, 2006 @10:16AM from the but-does-he-do-the-monkey-dance dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "In his first one-on-one interview since Bill Gates's retirement announcement, Steve Ballmer tells the Wall Street Journal he is bullish on Microsoft's investments in online services, and he dismisses as 'random malarkey' the idea that Microsoft is having trouble hiring and keeping the kind of brilliant employees that have always been the company's competitive weapon. Here's Ballmer on Gates's departure: 'As co-leaders of the business, I could allow Bill to be the full-time champion of innovation. And [now] with me really being the guy who's here every day running the place, I must be the champion of innovation.' And on competing with Google: 'We're going to compete. We're going to be in the online business. We are going to have a core around online. We're going to be excellent. That, I would tell people, to count on...'"

Why YouTube Needs the Rights to Your Video 139

Posted by timothy on Monday July 24, 2006 @05:40PM from the all-in-the-phrasing dept.

erlichson writes "There has been a lot of controversy over the YouTube terms of service. Why are consumers surprised? Fundamentally, YouTube's business model requires that they get the rights to redistribute your content. This note analyzes an alternative publishing model available to consumers that doesn't require granting a license to your content, but the trade-off is that you won't get the same level of distribution."

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