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'''Site Statistics''' -- "There are 1,912 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about MythTV, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 431 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
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'''Site Statistics''' -- There are 1,912 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about MythTV, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 431 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
  
There have been a total of 213,852 page views, and 4,264 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 2.23 average edits per page, and 50.15 views per edit."
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There have been a total of 213,852 page views, and 4,264 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 2.23 average edits per page, and 50.15 views per edit.
  
That's what the [[Special:Statistics|Statistics]] page says.  210K+ hits, 25% on the Main page.  In a little over a month.  Wow.  You go, guys.  --[[User:Baylink|Baylink]] 00:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
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We have [[Special:Userlist|135 users]], but only [http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=2 34] with user pages.
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That's what the [[Special:Statistics|Statistics]] say.  210K+ hits, 25% on the Main page.  In a little over a month.  Wow.  You go, guys.  --[[User:Baylink|Baylink]] 00:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  
 
'''HBO doesn't want you to record their programming''' -- Ars has another interesting new [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060209-6151.html piece] you should probably read.  [[Fair use]]?  What's that? --[[User:Baylink|Baylink]] 01:47, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 
'''HBO doesn't want you to record their programming''' -- Ars has another interesting new [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060209-6151.html piece] you should probably read.  [[Fair use]]?  What's that? --[[User:Baylink|Baylink]] 01:47, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

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Site Statistics -- There are 1,912 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about MythTV, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 431 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.

There have been a total of 213,852 page views, and 4,264 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 2.23 average edits per page, and 50.15 views per edit.

We have 135 users, but only 34 with user pages.

That's what the Statistics say. 210K+ hits, 25% on the Main page. In a little over a month. Wow. You go, guys. --Baylink 00:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

HBO doesn't want you to record their programming -- Ars has another interesting new piece you should probably read. Fair use? What's that? --Baylink 01:47, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

ArsTechnica on the CableCard -- Joseph Caputo on the mailing list pointed out this nice backgrounder on CableCard, the technology that might let you buy a digital cable tuner card that would let you record digital- and pay-tier cable programming. If, of course, Hollywood doesn't force so many restrictions on the manufacturers of the cards that you can't use them with non-Windows, free-software programs like Myth (which, alas, isn't likely). --Baylink 18:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Community Access TV Comments Solicited by FCC -- If one of the things you tape on your MythBox is local community access television programming (as we do, since it's often on at odd hours), and you find those programs interesting and informative, you probably want to go tell the FCC that. As noted in an earlier News piece, the federal government is planning to nationalize the process of franchising cable television providers, and, among the other negative effects likely to follow the removal of that process from local hands, it's probably going to kill one of the last bastions of free speech on television. Just another front (in addition to the Broadcast Flag) on which Congress is trying to transfer your rights into the control of the Large Corporations... which control it. Speak up, folks. --Baylink 19:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Congress Sets Date for Analog TV Shutdown - "Congress voted last week to set the official date for the analog spectrum handover at Feb. 17, 2009. By then, analog television transmissions in America should be history. The DTV transition will be over, and the ultimate fate of local digital television broadcasting will finally be revealed." Passed it by 2 votes. Does this mean your analog tuner card will be worthless in 3 years? I dunno. --Baylink 21:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

EVENT -- MythTV build party in Hawai'i; see Current events for a link. --Baylink 19:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Doc Searls at CES -- the Consumer Electronics Show just happened, and, as usual, Doc has some cogent things to say about it. --Baylink 21:49, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

FIOS and Access and more, oh my -- Verizon is rolling out FIOS all over the country, though they're having some problems with franchise agreements. 'The New AT&T', for it's part, is having trouble convincing its new investors that it's Lightspeed IPTV project is a Pretty Neat Idea. And on the topic of franchise agreements, they're trying to nationalize that process, which is likely -- given the current administration's distaste for free speech -- to have a vast negative impact on the continuation of public access cable TV channels. --Baylink 16:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

More from Brad -- Turns out that Brad is also a MythTV contributor (which I think I'd known from the mailing list...)" he's written TVWish, which looks like a pretty cool tool for major couch potatos... like my sister.  :-) --Baylink 21:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

MythTV Field Report -- Brad Templeton (who is, ironically, one of the Internet's copyright mavens, so clearly if he thinks MythTV is ok... :-) writes about watching last years Super Bowl commercials on his HDTV MythBox. We did that too. It's fun. Makes it easier to blog them, too. He goes into some detail on exactly how the government, at the behest of Hollywood, is trying to make it illegal to build or use a MythBox (and more importantly, to manufacture usable tuner cards). --Baylink 16:41, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Broadcast Flag -- Editor Jon Corbet over at Linux Weekly News has some more depth on the latest round of Broadcast Flag work in Congress, and how it might make building a MythBox illegal. (Subscriber courtesy link by Baylink.) --Baylink 01:53, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

HDTV Capture -- Courtesy of Matt Haughey (of MetaFilter fame)'s PVRBlog, we find a link to Thomas Hawk's story on upcoming CableCard-equipped HDTV capture cards. It's interesting that this is going on in light of all the Broadcast flag nonsense, but that's Follywood for you... (Reading the comments clarifies things a bit; this is probably not A Good Thing.) --Baylink 23:38, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

PRESS -- Engadget reports on how to build a "practical HTPC," using MythTV on Gentoo as the platform. Read the full article... --TylerDrake 03:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

FEATURE FREEZE -- Isaac announced on the development mailing list today that no further feature patches will be accepted into SVN for the 0.19 version, to be released shortly.

FLASH -- Here we go again with Broadcast Flag 2006. Hollywood, who own and operate your US Congressperson, are going to keep trying and trying to deprive you of your fair use rights, until either they succeed, or each and every one of you out there makes a believable, convincing argument to your elected representatives that they'd better not. You can find out how to contact them at [1]. --Baylink 18:01, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

TECH: VEIL -- Ed Felten, in his Freedom to Tinker weblog, has delved into how VEIL and other suggested technologies to "close the Analog Hole" actually work. (Courtesy LWN.) --Baylink 19:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Site Moved -- Well, thanks to Isaac and all the members of the Site Move team, it looks like we're finally in our new digs. If you modified anything on the old wiki in November or December, and we haven't gotten to moving it over here yet, please do. Welcome aboard, and watch the Community Portal for more. --Baylink 00:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


There is an archive of Old News.