![]() I have no Internet connection, so I cannot download any packages to install the applications or libraries needed. I knew of tvtime and xawtv, and that xawtv could capture video, although I had never used it. I went to the store and purchased a (reeaally) cheap Hauppauge WinTV board, and figured that I’d just plug it in and record the whole thing. What to do? I’d really like to see this show. This, and the fact that Swedish Television announced that they are sending an entire night, twelve hours straight, devoted to rock and heavy metal this very Friday night got my wheels spinning. ![]() My job forced me to relocate to a new town, a new apartment and a new… no, wait! No Internet connection available! Not yet anyways. They were all nice and nifty, and I had just about decided to stay with Debian (since it has almost as good application base and tools with apt* as FreeBSD’s ports) when destiny took another shot at me. I tried various Linux distros, including Mandrake 10, Slackware 10, Fedora Core 2, Debian Sarge and Gentoo. Some more time passed and although I thought FreeBSD is superb in almost every way, I’ve always been a music junkie, and some of the features ALSA could offer in the new 2.6 Linux kernel seduced me. Time passed, I got myself a job, an apartment in a new town and a new P4 3GHz with 1GB speedy memory and 200GB hard drive, yummy! I didn’t think much of it, but did a fresh install of FreeBSD again. At first, I missed some of the nice things Windows had to offer, but soon enough I had forgotten all about it. Now I got rid of my Windows partition and installed FreeBSD to use as my only OS that, for now, ran on a borrowed PII 350 MHz. At Uni I used to reinstall Windows every 6 months or so, since I couldn’t keep from bloating it and I didn’t really feel like walking through the registers deleting old services all the time. When I quit Uni and my trusty PIII died with a sigh I decided enough was enough. Most of the time at Uni my computer was running Windows 2000 and was happy with that, although I always loved to boot into my FreeBSD partition and feel the delight of total control as I tweaked and twisted my inits and rc:s. ![]() After 5 years at university, most of the time staring either into my 21″ Miro or into my too small chassis containing my old PIII 450MHz with various twists, and also as a network admin at my dorm with some 140 computers, I’ve come to know them pretty well. I know computers, and quite frankly I know them pretty well. The smell of newly purchased stuff… So, there I was, Hauppauge WinTV board in hand, Mandrake 10 installed and ready to rock! Little did I expect that it would come to this. ![]()
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