[mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 04 November 2005 06:14 pm, Josh Burks wrote:
> On 11/4/05, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> >     Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:45:55 -0600
> >     From: Josh Burks <dotnofoolin at gmail.com>
> >
> >     On 11/4/05, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu>
> > wrote: <big snip>
> >
> >     Maybe you should ask for your money back... :)
> >
> > Maybe I should ask for my -time- back.  Pity I spent all this money
> > on this pile o' hardware over here...
> >
> > Seriously:  You're apparently making the same "it was free, so you
> > have no right to complain" argument that a lot of people have made
> > about various problems in F/OSS and elsewhere.  That denigrates the
> > real problems that real people are having, not to mention insulting
> > all the time, sweat, and tears that real people have already spent
> > in building the system so far, -and- likewise the effort that the
> > users have spent on getting the results to work.
> >
> > Sorry, but yours is a bogus argument, and you should know it.
> > I'm trying to make this a better system.  One way to do this is to
> > complain, because otherwise problems can lurk for a long time without
> > getting fixed.  Not only does it raise the chances that somebody with
> > commit privs will actually be willing to check in fixes, it raises the
> > chances that somebody -else- who's also pissed-off about the state of
> > the world will go and spend the time hacking to fix it, now that they
> > know they're not the only one, that a fix would improve the lives of
> > -lots- of people, and that their fix will be accepted into the tree.
>
> Maybe you should take your complaints to the -dev list if you REALLY
> want them fixed. I haven't seen a single post from you over there yet.
> This is a users list. I like to read the posts to see if I can help
> with others problems, but wading through you novels about KnoppMyth's
> useablity and Mythtv in general is getting old fast.

He should only post on the dev list if he wants starts contributing in a 
useful manner.  The users list is for random bitching, the dev list is for 
people who want to help.

Isaac