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TV upgrade -- HDHomeRun and MythTV 0.22
After The Great TV Transition To Digital, Comcast for a while kept transmitting everything in analog NTSC, so I was able to use my Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 for cable, and occasionally watched over-the-air ATSC with HVR-950. It was clear that this was not going to last, and recently all but few NTSC channels disappeared. On top of that, when HVR-950 ( Read more... ) -
Clarification
For a long time I did not post anything here. I felt that I should provide some clarification about my (usually unflattering) description of Americans and American society, yet any attempt to express it in an entry ended up being too long and barely readable. Without finishing that entry I didn't feel like posting anything else, so I had to finish ( Read more... ) -
Individuality, or why every kid should be told to be a good drone
In modern American culture right after two greatest values that are proclaimed to be celebrated the most -- "freedom" (whatever kind of freedom it is supposed to be) and money -- there is "individuality". And just like with first two, overwhelming majority of population lacks everything but the most rudimentary forms of it -- most of people have ( Read more... ) -
Experience of being and not being poor (oh, and I don't like your society)
I believe, I have an announcement to make -- as of last week, I am no longer poor ( Read more... ) -
Bailout: Who insures the insurance executives -- apparently we all do
If anyone was following the news about massive bailout of American financial companies, he probably heard about AIG and its brilliant decision how to use some of those money -- that is, placing them directly into the executives' pockets. Uncharacteristically for American government, US Treasury insisted on changing that, and apparently AIG will ( Read more... ) -
Progress report:
Not electing the worst candidate into the highest ( Read more... ) -
How do I made fun of civilized peoplez?
Today a story was posted on Slashdot about a previously uncontacted tribe in Amazon forest, with one of the photos showing archers in war paint shooting arrows at the helicopter while some other tribesman (or maybe woman) standing nearby.
Here is my take on that:
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Ubuntu installation on XO laptop
I have posted Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) installation procedure and files on OLPC News forums. Here is how it looks like:
( Photos of the whole process )