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RE: Best PVR Card
by Sexton, Kyle 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

I second the PVR-250, it's what I use in my MythTV box at home and I haven't had any complaints. Kyle -----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of brad Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:58 AM To: kclug(a)kclug.org Subject: Re: Best PVR Card On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 00:26 -0600, Jim Herrmann wrote: > Those of you who have experience with setting up a PVR such as MythTV, > what is a good capture card that will be easy to setup and, more > importantly, easy to use? I suppose the easy to use part depends on the > software. From what I've seen MythTV looks pretty easy to use. I plan > to install and use this on my wife's existing Mandriva system. > > Any advice is welcome. > > Thanks, > Jim > I would definitely go with a Hauppauge PVR 250. It is very well tested within myth. I have a myth box with one of these cards and it was a snap to set up (FC3 following Jared Wilson's guide). It also has the remote that is well documented and performs nicely. I am looking to add another card to the setup so I can watch TV and record at the same time. -- Brad Crotchett, RHCE brad(a)bradandkim.net _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug(a)kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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Best PVR Card
by Jim Herrmann 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Those of you who have experience with setting up a PVR such as MythTV, what is a good capture card that will be easy to setup and, more importantly, easy to use? I suppose the easy to use part depends on the software. From what I've seen MythTV looks pretty easy to use. I plan to install and use this on my wife's existing Mandriva system. Any advice is welcome. Thanks, Jim

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Re: Linux Bandwidth Monitors
by rcedelman＠comcast.net 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

I find MRTG to be a bit of a pain in the ass to set up. I much prefer cacti (http://www.cacti.net). It can do all that MRTG can and more. It can zoom in on graphs to show a bit more detail, as well. We're using it here at work (in addition to MRTG and some other programs) for some of our monitoring. Rich

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Linux Bandwidth Monitors
by Jeremy Fowler 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Anyone have any favorite bandwidth monitors they use? Our network utilization tippled last month and I'm trying to find out why. Need something that I can be used to pin-point the IP address on our network that is generating the most traffic.

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Openoffice and Mozilla
by Jack 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

I was asking for help on several chat relays yesterday trying to get my Mozilla Address book set up as a data source for OpenOffice. I was using version 1.1.4, and couldn't get that to work so I installed version 2. Still no go. I found out this morning that the two files necessary to make that work aren't included in version 1.1.4 and version 2. I also discovered that the package maintainer has pulled support for Mozilla address book integration, as I was getting ready to post a bug report. I need to get the libmozab2.so and libmozabdrv.so libraries and incorporate them in to my system and maybe make an alternative package. Here I thought I just had a screwed up system again. That's what I get for thinking, I guess. Thanks to those who tried to help me yesterday. Oh well I guess there's always plain text importing of my address book. Or make an LDAP server for my addresses. Not sure where to begin there, I never messed with LDAP. Might make a good presentation for some meeting night. Thanks, Brian JD

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trip planner and non-microsoft web browsers
by David Nicol 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Dear KCATA: We of the kansas city linux users group would be happy to repair the trip planner server-side application so that it will work with any web browser, either as a paid project or on a volunteer basis. Please reply to kclug(a)kclug.org. -- David L Nicol

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LCD repair?
by David Ambs 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Anyone here handy enough to do LCD repair? To make a long story short, I get no display on my laptop anymore... well, I get a tad, but seems the backlight isn't kicking on. I figure I'd buy a backlight and replace it for the heck of it.<tearing that display apart was a damn learning experience.... why does it take 500+ screws to hold this thing together?!> Still no light coming on. I can see the display on the LCD very faintly, so I know something is getting out there. Could it be the power inverter that is going out as well? Is there any way to test that? I'd hate to keep buying random parts until it fixes it. Are there any local shops that would fix it? It may be easier to have someone else fix it then me mess with it forever =] Thanks for any responses -dave public key at http://www.ambs.net/~encieno/encieno.gpg.key

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RE: LCD repair?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

I saw a link to a backlight repair on a desktop LCD on digg.com last week. There were decent pictures and instructions. The author used a cold cathode to repair it. I don't know if you can do this in a laptop or not. ******************************************* If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of Anyone here handy enough to do LCD repair? To make a long story short, I get no display on my laptop anymore... well, I get a tad, but seems the backlight isn't kicking on. I figure I'd buy a backlight and replace it for the heck of it.<tearing that display apart was a damn learning experience.... why does it take 500+ screws to hold this thing together?!> Still no light coming on. I can see the display on the LCD very faintly, so I know something is getting out there. Could it be the power inverter that is going out as well? Is there any way to test that? I'd hate to keep buying random parts until it fixes it. Are there any local shops that would fix it? It may be easier to have someone else fix it then me mess with it forever =] Thanks for any responses -dave

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Kcata.org
by Arthur Pemberton 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Anyone has any idea why the Kcata Trip Planner is Windows/IE only, despite the fact that it is a server side application: http://68.166.86.20/etripplanner/ Just curious. -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.

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RE: SBC to unbundle local service from dsl
by Garrett Goebel 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote: > Garrett Goebel wrote: > > > > A SBC AT&T merger date has not yet been set, but 12 months from > > the day... SBC will have to offer DSL service unbundled from > > local voice service. > > ... > > This might make DSL affordable for us cell only users. Right > now, I might as well get Cable Internet and basic cable, since > that is less than DSL and local phone service. Not to mention > the slower speeds of DSL. It might lead to cable companies unbundling services too... Whenever it becomes affordable, I will switch to VOIP for local and long distance voice service through someone like SunRocket http://www.sunrocket.com for $200/year. -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com

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