Starting my MythTV project

I'm finally going to do it. I've been looking at building a MythTV box for over a year now. I just never could motivate myself to take the first step.

Last week I purchased a PVR-250 Model 980 from buy.com, and just last night I saw a $70 200gb harddrive on Outpost.com, so I went ahead and bought that as well.

I've already discovered by reading in some forums that the PVR-250 I bought which I thought would be an easy match for Myth is a newer model chipset (980) and they (Myth coders) haven't worked out all the glitches with it yet. Hopefully the great open source coders that are working on Myth will have it solved by the time I get all the hardware in place. The PVR-250 is the most widely used card of Myth users, so I think they'll be on top of it fast. I was trying to avoid the MCE chipset because I read about problems with it, but it seems those are all resolved now. The issue currently is around the 980 chipset that I just bought. Oh well, my first miscalculation, I'm sure there will be more to come.

I still need to buy a case, motherboard, processor, ram, and video card (output). I'll keep you up to date on my progress.

Hacking Defined

I found an interesting site just the other day. It's called Hacking Defined. They do a nice demo of cracking a WEP key in just a few minutes here:

http://whoppix.hackingdefined.com/Whoppix-wepcrack.html

I've seen a similar demo done on From the Shadows StashBox 3.0, but this attack was super fast.

How to become a millionaire

I found this very nice presentation the other day. It was very inspiring. I think all I really need to do to become a millionaire is try. I just have to get off my lazy butt and do it. :)

http://marshallbrain.com/million.htm

Digg

I'm still working on ways to balance life and blogging. :) In any case, I've added my diggs to the right column. Digg is a very neat site that I've been reading for sometime now. I don't even read Slashdot anymore.

Digg stories bubble to the top based on how many people are interested in them. So when I digg a story (and it shows up in my right column) I basically +1 the story's score. So not always the most recent news is front page, sometimes it takes a few days to bubble to the top.