[mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend

[Bruce Markey]

Brad Templeton wrote:
> 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