You can login to a Windows XP machine that has remote desktop from a Mac. This is a software package available from Microsoft. I downloaded the HQX version.

The Microsoft site says that the package is for PowerPC processor Macs but if you have an Intel Mac it doesn't really matter because the Intel Macs will emulate the PowerPC processor automagically. I'm on an Intel MacBook Pro and the Remote Desktop Client works fine for me. Most Mac people know this already, I didn't.

Remote Desktop Connection for Mac

For work I use two computers: a Mac on OS X Tiger and a PC on Windows XP. To ease the pain of switching between the 2 keyboards several people suggested that I use Synergy. Synergy virtually combine the Mac and Windows (and Linux) into a common desktop using the beauty of a LAN.

Now that I have Synergy I can copy stuff from my Windows machine and paste the clipboard to Mac. The absolute best thing about it is that I have 3 monitors (1 Mac laptop + 2 Windows monitors) hooked together for maximum visual overload.

The setup isn't completely intuitive but it isn't difficult. Follow the instructions in the SourceForge documentation or follow the LifeHacker instructions.

Synergy on SourceForge

SynergyKM for Mac

MythTV Player reads files from a mythtv backend. It is not yet fully baked but it works pretty nicely.

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DirectShow Filters for NUV files to work on windows. This allows you to play MythTV .NUV files with regular windows media software like Media Player Classic. It includes a NUV ->AVI converter. The downside is that you must access the files through the file system which means that you cannot see the title or episode description of each file.

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Tapeworm sounds interesting. I have not tried this yet but it sounds promising. It gives you a way to copy files from the mythtv backend to your computer/laptop for later viewing on the road. Very nice feature.

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Setting up LIRC is a little different on Ubuntu than it is on the Lirc.org website. Or maybe this how-to documentation is better. Whatever the case may be I was able to get my Hauppauge WinTV remote control to cooperate with LIRC on my Kubuntu box.

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I recently have been trying to configure a MythTV box for my computer (mythtv 0.20 on Ubuntu edgy). For some reason when recording, mythtv will record video but without sound. The solution is to unmute the audio for the capture device. See section 7.2 for the solution.

    $ amixer set Master,0 100%,100% unmute
    $ amixer set PCM,0 100%,100% unmute
    $ amixer set Line,0 75%,75% mute captur
    $ amixer set Capture,0 100%,100% captur
    $ su
    # alsactl store
    # exit
    $ 

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