On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:14:10AM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
On Sunday 09 January 2005 11:57 pm, Brad Templeton wrote:
Right now mythtv is not mature enough to give to people who are not sophisticated computer users. They need help administering it from somebody else, and that's why this is a useful feature.
Don't see you doing terribly much to help with that.
Sorry you feel that way.
No one here owes you anything. If you are alone in believing that you have a brilliant idea, it's up to you to work it out. I know that myth does the things I want it to do, does things that dozens of other people needed and I'm pretty sure it does what Isaac needs too. No one here is taking orders from you or anyone else.
As for the issue at hand, mythfrontend absolutely can be run on a host remote to the master backend and frontends on a host can potentially connect to any master anywhere. If you elect to use ssh and a different port number, mysql (www.mysql.com) has a config file to set the port number that their client libraries use. If you have a better idea, diff -u spaces no tabs.
I also am sorry that you feel we aren't doing a lot to support MythTV
I've never seen Isaac say anything of the sort. I have seen you use this technique on this list before and it is childish and uncalled for. 'Maybe it's just me but personally, I'm opposed to your idea that we should all club baby seals. I think everyone on this list would be appalled by your support for this senseless mutilation.'
and open source digital TV in general. Our digital TV liberation front page (www.eff.org/broadcastflag) with associated articles on building MythTV have brought it a fair bit of attention, I hope. If there is more we can do, let us know.
First of all, lets establish if you are here as a representative of EFF. If so, I think there are some serious issues with how EFF intends to interface with this project but I don't actually believe that you are their appointed goodwill ambassador.
If EFF went looking for an open source project that supports the pcHDTV, they would naturally find that of the hundreds (literally hundreds) of attempts to start a DVR project that few got off the ground and none come close to MythTV as a direct result of Isaac's skills, approach and temperament.
If you want to believe that we should be beholden to you because you happen to be associated with someone who wrote an article that merely mentioned the work that Isaac and others have done over the past nearly three years, you are sadly mistaken.
I don't give a rats ass if a single person uses MythTV as a result of seeing it mentioned at EFF or in a magazine or where ever. I want to have the best possible DVR for myself and if others find it useful, that's fine. Even better if they can improve upon it.
If EFF and it's members want to make contributions to this project that meet their agenda, that's fine. However, if all you have to offer is the fanciful, impractical suggestions you've made in the past, unfounded alarmist proclamations posted to our users, endless debate apparently for sport, and now cheap shots at the lead developer? No thank you.
Have I not made an effort to try to respond to your questions with honest and informed answers about our software? I think you've worn out your welcome there. I had done so with the expectation that you intended to contribute. I was unaware that you were incapable of so much as installing a complier over the course of several weeks.
-- bjm
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