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Video of the Meeting

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We have not one, but two video recordings of this meeting!

Alex Grundner's video of the presentation can be seen embedded here:


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Bill Ward's video of the presentation can be seen embedded here:

 <<O>>  Difference Topic MeetingAgenda20060727 (r1.4 - 31 Mar 2008 - BillWard)

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Date: Thursday, July 27th, 2006
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Scott Boyd is an freelance consultant and an owner of A-Street Internet a 10 year old store front Internet Service Provider located in San Carlos, California. Scott has consulted with many valley companies such as Sun, Oracle, Cisco, HP, and others including the infamous Kibu. Scott has worked with Unix since Unisoft Version 7 and Linux since November 1991.

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Free Stuff & Discounts

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Video of the presentation can be seen here: http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2891/video_presentation_mythtv or embedded below.

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We will be having a door prize drawing to give away free stuff at the meeting, such as books and T-shirts. Plus all PenLUG members can receive a 30% off discount code from O'Reilly!

Free books are supplied by O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall, and/or Apress (while supplies last). If you win one, please add your book reviews to our LinuxBookReviews page.

If your company would like to contribute free or discount stuff to give out at PenLUG meetings, please mail officers@penlug.org to let us know.

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 <<O>>  Difference Topic MeetingAgenda20060727 (r1.3 - 05 Aug 2006 - BillWard)

META TOPICPARENT WebHome
Date: Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Time: meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM
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Scott Boyd is an freelance consultant and an owner of A-Street Internet a 10 year old store front Internet Service Provider located in San Carlos, California. Scott has consulted with many valley companies such as Sun, Oracle, Cisco, HP, and others including the infamous Kibu. Scott has worked with Unix since Unisoft Version 7 and Linux since November 1991.

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Free Stuff & Discounts

We will be having a door prize drawing to give away free stuff at the meeting, such as books and T-shirts. Plus all PenLUG members can receive a 30% off discount code from O'Reilly!

 <<O>>  Difference Topic MeetingAgenda20060727 (r1.2 - 23 Jun 2006 - BillWard)

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Date: Thursday, July 27th, 2006
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Scott Boyd, MythTV

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MythTV is a GPL'd application that allows you to create a super digital video recorder (DVR) on top of Linux that requires no monthly subscription fees. For a reasonably complete description see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythTV

The MythTV project page is located at:

http://www.mythtv.org/

A 2 tuner standard definition analog system will be demonstrated. Topics include:

  • How it works
  • Basic use demonstration
  • How and where to get free TV show listings
  • Video resolution, bit rates, file sizes and video quality
  • Burning DVDs of your recordings
  • Transcoding video files
  • Storing, indexing and playing your Music CD collection in the system
  • Controlling the system via the web
  • Q and A.

A shopping list of components that are known to work will be provided.

Scott Boyd is an freelance consultant and an owner of A-Street Internet a 10 year old store front Internet Service Provider located in San Carlos, California. Scott has consulted with many valley companies such as Sun, Oracle, Cisco, HP, and others including the infamous Kibu. Scott has worked with Unix since Unisoft Version 7 and Linux since November 1991.


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Date: Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Time: meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM
Location: Twin Pines Park, 1225 Ralston Ave, Belmont, CA 94002

Scott Boyd, MythTV

Scott will give a presentation on the MythTV system which turns your Linux box into a TiVO?-like device for recording TV and much more. More details coming soon!

Free Stuff & Discounts

We will be having a door prize drawing to give away free stuff at the meeting, such as books and T-shirts. Plus all PenLUG members can receive a 30% off discount code from O'Reilly!

Free books are supplied by O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall, and/or Apress (while supplies last). If you win one, please add your book reviews to our LinuxBookReviews page.

If your company would like to contribute free or discount stuff to give out at PenLUG meetings, please mail officers@penlug.org to let us know.

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