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Does anybody know where I go on the MS site to submit a feature request? The commercials make Microsoft seem so friendly and approachable.

Anyway, I had a great idea- what if Microsoft, instead of pumping out crappy versions of Internet Explorer, were to bundle Microsoft OSes with Firefox?

Wait, you Bill Gates fanboy, I'm not done yet...

This time in front of the NBA Scouts at the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament.

Blurb from Hoopsworld:

Marqus Blakely Vermont 6-5, 225 Guard / Forward

But with the exception of this guy, most of them spent the winter dining on meatwiches and beer, which is why I prefer the Athletes of Winter. You know, basketball.

They spend a lot more time running.

While I was finishing my business in the bathroom this morning, I finally figured out why it makes me feel a little funny that Courtney's alumni magazine is on top of the toilet.
 
She's all wicked smart.
 
I like potty jokes.

I can't wait to make it control the lights in my house..

It's a Novation Launchpad. Those are buttons. They light up. You press them. It wants to be a monome.

Turns out that the remote worked like a dream, but once the remote was operating smoothly the IR Blaster stopped working. After further testing it appeared that I could only get ONE device to work at a time- whichever device was operating on /dev/lircd.

BAH.

After much research, turns out there is an issue in the script that resides at /etc/init.d/lirc. Who knew?.

So I finally got the Radio Shack remote working with my install of Mythbuntu. This practically completes the setup (not really)!

One thing that was unclear in the process was the Mythbuntu Control Centre. I was not sure whether I needed to select the remote from the IR dropdown list or the hardware. Both were listed. I was able to get some buttons working using the generic sounding "Hauppauge card" and the Radio Shack 3-in-one wasn't working at all (maybe I needed to punch some "Codes" into the remote? It was unclear).

Here's a list of television shows that are on the to-delete list from my Mythbuntu box. I have the Mythv frontend on my MacBook Pro, too, allowing me to watch tv on my laptop. Boom. Hooked. Maybe I should open it up to the public so my friends can tell me what to watch. Like that guy who opened his automated house up to the internet- you can watch him sit on his computer in his underwear and flip the lights on and off around him. (can't find the link).

So I've successfully upgrading my Mythbuntu box from 9.04 to 9.10 and thus Mythtv .21 to Mythtv .22 and I desperately want to include some fanart on my fancy-ass themes for my .22 frontend OSX builds (graciously provided by TheSniderPad.com. Only trouble is I'm having trouble! Fanart appears to work fine on the Mythbuntu frontend but there appears to be some sort of sharing issue with OSX.