I know that when I post about poker it bores a lot of your, so instead of boring you with poker today, I’ll bore you with computer talk — so as to alienate the rest of the people reading the site regularly.

A couple of weeks ago, I signed up to the MythTV-Users mailing list. It’s pretty active, and I certainly don’t have time to read it all, but I thought it couldn’t hurt to glance through it before attempting to install myth myself. Reading it for a couple of days had me a little concerned though. It seemed like everyone was having problems getting things going, and nobody was having fun with it. Even taking the self-selected sample bias into account, it was still alarming.

Then I realized that 99% of the people having troubles are trying to install from packages. I think I saw one posting about someone having trouble getting it to compile on Gentoo but otherwise it was predominantly Fedora Core 3 problems, and apt-get problems. The occasional problem with hardware support and such, and people having problems getting TV-out to work. Since I’m feeding the projector VGA, I won’t have the TV-out problems, and since I’m going the Gentoo route, I won’t have package issues - just a long compile time on my hands apparently. I’m ok with that though. I’m getting close to the point where I can just type emerge mythtv and cross my fingers (I configured/compiled my kernel last night, now I just have a little more configuration stuff to do before the first reboot)

So, now that I’ve driven off the poker-haters and the computer-haters, <grumpy-old-man>what do I have to do to get rid of the rest of you?</grumpy-old-man> :)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “If you don’t start making more sense, we’re going to have to put you in a home.” - Homer