[mythtv-users] Mythweb scheduled Recordings not working when program already started

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/04/2013 09:33 PM, John Morris wrote:
> Bad advice these days, many distros configure X to not even listen to
> the tcp port anymore.  (Look at your process list and see if /usr/bin/X
> was started with -nolisten tcp) And if there is any sort of iptables
> configured it will also block X from any non-localhost address.  For now
> we can still use ssh for remote app display but Wayland promises to
> bring the days of network transparency to a sad end.
>
> Weep for the death of The UNIX Way.  By the time Linux achieves the long
> awaited 'world domination' it will be indistinguishable from what it
> replaced.  No network transparency, 'everything is a file' replaced with
> 'everything is an API', Windows services and the registry.  Humbug.

Well if you look at the numbers, the vast majority of PC users don't use 
network transparency, anyway.  (And, of course, when I say the vast 
majority of PC users, I mean the people who are using MS Windows.)  But, 
hey, who cares about Wayland, since now we have Mir.

And, since it was /so/ easy to get video card vendors to create 
high-quality drivers for X.org/XFree86, why shouldn't we ask them to not 
only create drivers for X.org/XFree86 but also to create other drivers 
for Wayland, and other drivers for Mir.  After all, the vendors love 
GNU/Linux so much, I'm sure they'd love to triple the amount they're 
spending to support the tiny percentage of the (now-dwindling number of) 
PC users that run GNU/Linux (or is it now Red Hat/Linux and 
Canonical/Linux?).

> Oh, and just to be pendantic, while an X server is not required to send
> a program's display to another server, you already installed the X
> client libs and X basic apps to meet the dependencies of any program
> capable of a graphical display.

Hey, trimming out that <2MB of HDD space that an X server takes is 
exactly what it takes to get a lean, mean computing machine.  Seriously, 
2MB is 0.0004% of a 500GB HDD--and that's nothing to be sneezed at!  Oh, 
and the Xorg.1 man file is another 20kB, too!

I'll bet you're the kind of person who thinks nothing of wasting 300kiB 
of RAM on a Window Manager for no benefit, other than having your 
windows appear where they should and in the z-order they should and be 
focused as they should and release focus to the right window when they 
close and such.  Some people just never look at the numbers--if they 
only realized that 300kiB is 0.007% of 4GiB of RAM, they'd realize just 
how much of a waste a Window Manager is.

(In case it wasn't clear, I'm being sarcastic about the HDD space and 
RAM savings, not to mention about the video card vendors' willingness to 
support GNU/Linux users.)

Mike