Dave Hofstra

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Hi, I am Dave Hofstra.

I have been a MythTV addict for a few years now. I really love the open-source philosophy, and I am currently using Linux in my household for everything but money management and GPS tracking on my laptop. Those 2 things have proven to be impossible to migrate.

Anyways I really wanted to help give back to the MythTV project, as it has given me years of enjoyment. Initially, I made the photographic icons that are now part of Titivillus. This was a huge project for me, and I added some code to myth's XML files that allowed theme designers to start including a different icon for every menu item in MythTV. Although I am really proud of those photographic icons, it clearly shows that I have no real graphical skills other than cropping photos. The only other thing I have contributed is the Myxer theme. It is not really a theme as much as it is a script that lets you customize various aspects of mythtv themes from the command line. I have no programming skills, and althought it is a handy script, most people do not want to do anything in a terminal window if they do not have to. I may consider updating Myxer for 0.19 as soon as I get 0.19 up and running.

I think I'll spend some time helping this wiki, because I dont really have any graphical skills, nor do I have any programming skills. Hope you dont mind my long-winded edits!

I have the following setup

MASTER BACKEND

  • Suse 9.1
  • Celeron D 2.4Ghz
  • pcHDTV 3000
  • PVR250 retail
  • PVR250 MCE
  • 1 Terabyte of storage as LVM cluster
  • LIRC IR blaster for 2 sat boxes
  • in addition to sat lineup, I also have basic cable
  • nVIDIA 4000


LIVING ROOM FRONTEND

  • Suse 10.0
  • Celeron D 2.53 Ghz
  • nVIDIA 5500
  • Audio Authority A960 VGA -> Component video adapter
  • I still run 856x480 even for HDTV because I just cant seem to get a modeline that looks good at 1080i or 540p
  • IR reciever I bought from IRBLASTER.info and am really really happy with the quality of that thing

Bedroom Frontend

  • Ubuntu
  • PIII 600 mHz
  • Homemade IR reciever that works great, but is uglier than the irblaster.info one in the frontroom.
  • nVIDIA 4000
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