Re: recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

2009-12-06 Thread Derek Atkins
Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com writes: Does Myth support this yet? If you're talking about the video hardware portion, yes, fully supported in MythTV 0.22. For the IR part, MythTV doesn't care. You just set up your channel change script like you always have, now containing irsend commands

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Building Google's Chromium OS

2009-12-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: December 16, 2009 7PM (6:30PM for QA) Topic: Building Google's Chromium OS Moderators: Ryan Cairns (Google's Chrome OS Software Engineering team) Kan Liu (Google's Chrome OS Product Management) Brian DeLacey (early experiences using Chromium OS) Location:

[semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Peter Dobratz
I help out with some of the technology stuff at a Nashua non-profit, and we're having a frustrating experience getting our DSL to work again with FairPoint (*see below for the whole story). For one phone line + voicemail + DSL, I think it's about $75/month. Are there any alternatives to

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: Are there any alternatives to FairPoint for internet + phone line in Nashua? Your choices are fundamentally the phone company and the cable company. In Nashua, that means FairPoint and Comcast. Both suck when it comes to

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: Are there any alternatives to FairPoint for internet + phone line in Nashua? Your choices are fundamentally the phone company and the cable company. In Nashua, that means

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: There's also satellite ... Ack-pfft!! I wouldn't use satellite Internet if you gave it to me for free. 1.5 second RTT sucks wet farts out of dead pigeons. (That is not a typo. 1.5 seconds. 1500 ms.) I think

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Arc Riley
Isn't MV available in Nashua? (mv.com) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread dan
Arc Riley wrote: Isn't MV available in Nashua? (mv.com) Yes. MV is available in Nashua and is a wonderful vendor to work with. I have been very happy with them for literally decades. The last mile portion is still FairPoint, of course. At least MV would be the buffer to FairPoint, though

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:55 AM, dan d...@rastech.com wrote: Yes. MV is available in Nashua and is a wonderful vendor to work with. I have been very happy with them for literally decades. MV donates the co-lo for the GNHLUG server that provides this mailing list. They've consistently

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Arc Riley
+1 on comcast business class being awful. I don't have experience with them in NH, but elsewhere I've had nothing but bad experiences with them in other states; ie, moving static subnet blocks we were paying good money for without warning, business class cable modems blowing out in lightning

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com wrote: +1 on comcast business class being awful. Er, messages in thread so far seem to suggest people are saying they're marginally okay. Not great, but not awful. business class cable modems blowing out in lightning storms I