Sunday, September 05, 2004

Step By Step: Building a MythTV PVR for $635 Step By Step: Building a MythTV PVR for $635 Posted by michael on Saturday September 04, @09:16PM from the longest-march dept. hesby writes "Anandtech has just published the first half of a two-part article on building a MythTV PVR that they will ultimately compare with Microsoft's Windows Media Center Edition on very similar hardware. As a result, they selected some components that the average user might not choose, just to keep things fair in the second part, where they pit the two PVRs head to head." [Slashdot:] 12:47:40 PM    comment []  trackback []

Wikipedia != Authoritative? Wikipedia != Authoritative? Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 05, @10:02AM from the well-duh-people dept. Frozen North writes "Recently, this article in the Syracuse Post-Standard caused a stir by dismissing Wikipedia as an authoritative source, and even suggesting that it was a little deceptive by looking too much like a "real" encyclopedia. Techdirt suggested an experiment: insert bogus information into Wikipedia, and see how long it takes for the mistake to be removed. Well, I did that experiment, and the results weren't good: five errors inserted over five days, all of which lasted until I removed them myself at the end of the experiment."  [Slashdot:] This has been causing a hub-bub in the library community for tha past couple of weeks.  Geez, I always beleive everything I read on the Internet;-)  C'mon, Wikipedia is a community website with lots of contributors, of course it is going to be inaccurate at points.  I think the thing is that people need to keep in mind where this stuff is coming from.  Always verify your sources, or else it's just a rumor. 12:36:50 PM    comment []  trackback []