[mythtv-users] Jarod C. Wilson's guide is gone !

Lord Darkhelmet lord_darkhelmet at accesscomm.ca
Wed Oct 11 00:31:41 UTC 2006


Its better than nothing for me !!   I'm a total newb at this and it was 
my holy grail to getting myth up and running.  Did a reboot, went back 
to the page and was greeted by a 404 - can you say arrrgghhh!



Andrew Davis wrote:
> Um yeah, okay... let's all regress to FC3 and MythTV 0.16. Seriously, I 
> *do* have a printed copy. I guess I could PDF it and post it if that's 
> not a copyright violation...
>
> Robin Smith wrote:
>   
>> Hmmm, I am confused.
>>
>> The site www.wilsonet.com now points to some dude named Daniel J
>> Wilson's blog. It has posts as far back as July on the front page, but
>> none of his other links work. If the DNS entry for wilsonet.com posts
>> to this dude's blog, how does the svn link still point to Jarod's
>> repository?
>>
>> My guess, Daniel J is Jarod's brother and he has taken down the myth
>> site and given the domain to his bro... they both talk about Seattle
>> as if that's where they are from and in a deadlink archived on Google,
>> Daniel's blog mentions WilsoNet Technologies which was what Jarod
>> called his company.
>>
>> Jaord is supposedly writing a book on mythtv, it wouldn't surprise me
>> if the terms of his writing deal require him to take down the free
>> stuff so it adds value to the book. I am being a bit of a conspiracy
>> theorist here. If I am right, that sucks and is not quite in the
>> spirit of open source (provide information "free" then decide to take
>> it away so you can sell it...).
>>
>> You can always use the wayback machine:
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20050321031353/www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/
>> BAM! Jarod's site is still available...
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Robin
>>
>> On 10/10/06, William Otte <w.otte at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> On Oct 10, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Lord Darkhelmet wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/   appears to be non-functional.   Please
>>>> tell me there is another copy somewhere !
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Looks like his subversion repository is still up - you can get the
>>> pages from there:
>>>
>>> https://svn.wilsonet.com/svn/mythtvology/trunk/
>>>
>>> hth,
>>> /-Will
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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