Success...almost...

Okay, so I found out what the TV Tuner is, FINALLY!! Thanks in part to google and a chinese website and subsequently another google search and a usenet group.


Anywho, now I need to find the next closest supported tuner or possibly this one if it is a choice and reonfigure the kernel w/ this one. Wish me luck, for I know I will.


BTW, for the curious the Tuner is made by some company called Tenna Electronics. I think the link in the title will lead to their website. I hope this works and I can start watching TV in Linux. Not that I can hook it up to a cable connection right now, but that doesn't matter.

Debian is scary

Okay, I tried out Debian 3.1r0a and all I will say is, "never again, never again!" I found the installation to be slightly troublesome, of course I am used to graphical installers, so that is why. Then when I was finally past that and logged in everything was foreign to me. Sure it was Gnome and I saw everything, but it was so, awkward.


Anyway. Now I am using Fedora Core 4, something I can easily understand.


However, regardless of the distro, I can not get my TV Card to work. I still don't know the specifics of my Tuner. I know the chipset and all that, but the Tuner is foreign to me. It just has a sticker that says IN and the N is a like an up arrow. I dunno. Maybe I'll figure this out soon.

Firefly/Serenity

Okay, now I finally got around to watching Firefly. However, I have a question.


In one episode called 'Trash' there are a few scenes w/ a dumpster. In these scenes you see a computer screen. Here is the question: why did the screen display an obvious Windows desktop? Most likely Windows 2000, from what I could tell.


Seriously if this is set 500 years in the future, what the hell? This makes no damn sense.


Anyway, seriously looking forward to the movie, and if any fan jargon is true, a series revival.