[mythtv-users] Home Automation + MythTV/Linux

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 05:10:05 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Graham Mitchell <gmitch at woodlea.com> wrote:
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Gerry Freymann
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:38 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Home Automation + MythTV/Linux
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> When i went to try the equipment on my work box, gee, it doesn't have a
> serial port either!
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> Boy was I surprised.
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> So the next coupla boxes I bought? I made sure they had a serial port. ;-)
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> A serial port is what they call a legacy port these days... and the new
> intel chipsets don't support those... along with parallel ports (sigh), PS2
> ports, and IDE ports. Thank goodness you can get PCI cards with parallel
> ports - going to need a couple of them for my next project.
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until they stop putting pci slots in there :)


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