{"id":840,"date":"2007-06-04T17:35:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T07:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/positive-response-on-practical-mythtv-from-somebody-who-actually-has-the-book\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T08:46:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:46:39","slug":"positive-response-on-practical-mythtv-from-somebody-who-actually-has-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/positive-response-on-practical-mythtv-from-somebody-who-actually-has-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive response on “Practical MythTV” from somebody who actually has the book"},"content":{"rendered":"

My trusty google alerts alerted me to: Yeraze’s Domain 2.0 – Practical MythTV (and about 15 seconds after mailing off to Mikal<\/a> going all awww over it, I saw he’s blogged this<\/a> already.<\/p>\n

Not only is the review positive on the book (“5 out of 5” is a good rating), it looks as though the book will be of value to the reviewer as they expand their MythTV system (precisely one of the aims we had with the book). In fact even I<\/strong> am looking forward to my hard copy to use as a reference when doing some things to my MythTV system….. oh, and likely when I finally give into my mum’s requests and build her one too (yes, the same mother of mine who finds keyborad shortcuts confusing but has been using Linux on the desktop for years and now even installs her own security updates).<\/p>\n

I feel good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My trusty google alerts alerted me to: Yeraze’s Domain 2.0 – Practical MythTV (and about 15 seconds after mailing off to Mikal going all awww over it, I saw he’s blogged this already. Not only is the review positive on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-gadgets","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-mythtv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-dy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":862,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/13\/another-positive-review-for-practical-mythtv\/","url_meta":{"origin":840,"position":0},"title":"Another positive review for Practical MythTV!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-07-13","format":false,"excerpt":"Over at fosswire.com, there's a review of Practical MythTV. 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