[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu CableCARD support

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Apr 1 17:35:17 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 01 April 2009 11:30:28 James Oltman wrote:
> I started to believe this when I was reading, but then one of the last
> paragraphs really made me laugh.
>
> After the technician has completed the provisioning procedure, he will
> reset the device to standard operating mode. Once it's finished starting
> back up, he will open up mythtv-setup. You'll likely have to provide him
> your user password during this step to stop mythtv-backend. Make sure that
> he doesn't launch mythtv-setup as root, as Mythbuntu should have all of the
> appropriate access rights for each user in the mythtv group.
>
> There's your April Fool's joke!

I figured it out when they said they had been working with T/W. Obviously that 
would be the wrong group to work with, it should have been the CableCard 
Consortium, though there are folks who would claim the difference is minimal.

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beww
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