Jake Graft pointed out in a comment that I had forgotten to put the init script from the MythTV book online. My apologies. #! /bin/sh # # mythbackend # PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin BACKEND=/usr/local/bin/mythbackend BACKEND_NAME=mythbackend MYTHUSER=”myth” test -x $BACKEND || exit 0 set -e case “$1” in start) echo -n “Starting MythTV: $BACKEND_NAME” su ${MYTHUSER} -c “$BACKEND -v…
Tag: book
The book is doing ok
I must say I am pleased with the Amazon rank for the MythTV book. The ranks seem volatile though — the other day it was doing well in “Linux books”, now its doing well in “video books”.
Illegal download sites for the MythTV book
In the last week, I have discovered three download sites offering illegal downloads of the MythTV book e-book. If I can find three without really trying, I assume there are a lot more of them out there. This raises a question for which I don’t have a good answer. Do illegal downloads of books increase,…
Google book search
I just noticed that the ImageMagick book appears in Google book search. I’m pleased.
More reviews
I just got back from a lovely four days in Tasmania, and am just now catching up with the resulting email backlog. There are some new alerts about reviews of the MythTV book in there which are worth pointing out: I’m surprised and disappointed that the installation of MythTV through pre-built packages or a CD…
Review
“If you’re interested in setting up a PVR, then this is definitely a book to check out. Apress sells the paper version for $30, and offers an eBook for $15. Amazon offers it for $19.79, but I doubt that price will last long. I definitely give this book a 5 out of 5…” http://www.yeraze.com/article.php/20070603160650701
Book printed!
I got off the phone with Catherine a few hours ago, and apparently my copies of the book have arrived at home (I’m in Dublin for work at the moment). That’s very exciting. Looks like now would be a good time to buy it, while it’s shipping soon and still on special.
Mark is right
Mark Pilgrim is a smart guy, and he’s right that the correct time to start writing is while you have that sense of wonder. That was the big difference in the approaches I took with the ImageMagick book (an attempt to be definitive and therefore boring to write), versus the MythTV book (a cleaned up…
Status
The book went to print two days ago. Now we wait for it to come back…
Done and done
Stewart finished off the last trailing chapter of the MythTV book a week or so ago, and I finished the last copy edit (the process where we learn US grammar) just now. That means we only need to have page layout done for a chapter or so and we’re home. Hurrah!