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Installing a Mythtv OSX Frontend.

Install OSX and the Mythtv frontend on a clean system.
For Christmas this year I got an awesome gift of a Mac Mini core solo to use as a Mythtv frontend on my bedroom entertainment center. My brother had recently bought two of them and said they worked great. He configured the Mac against his own Mythtv system in Ohio and then shipped it too me in Florida. The unit booted fine when I got it but would not connect to my Mythtv backend. So I started from scratch and here’s how I did it.

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Apple releases OSX 10.5.2

Get it while it’s hot! Apple just released the long awaited 10.5.2 update to OSX. Tons of fixes are included.
Updates were made to:

Active Directory
Airport
Back to my Mac
Dashboard
Dock
Desktop
iCal
iChat
iSync
Finder
Mail
Networking
Preview
Printing
RAW image
Safari
Login and Setup
Time Machine

And a bunch of other things. The download weighs in a 180 MB so plan to spend a few mins. The baby can be […]

Widgets on Apple TV?

Ars-Technica is reporting that a recent patent filling by Apple points to widgets being developed for the Apple TV. I sure hope this is the case. When the Apple TV was first released I read all the reviews that reported that it missed the mark so I didn’t actually pay attention until it was hacked […]

Top 5 OS independent applications for your new system

I just bought a 17 inch MacBook Pro. The reason I went with the Mac is because apple hardware is the only hardware that can run all three of the major operating system out of the box. In my day to day life I support Linux, Windows, and OSX systems. Even though I have to support three operating systems, I like to try to use the same software stack on each system, to make my life easier. So below is my top five applications that are the same on each OS.
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