I recently got my hands on a Hauppage PVR-150 from NewEgg since I do not have a TV as of yet. It makes for a very good card in Linux. Setup of it was a bit of a pain. The drivers for ivtv did not want to build due to missing kernel options. The menuconfig for the kernel was not as clear as I would like as to what drivers I needed. I ended up just putting them at the end of the kernel configuration and a "make oldconfig".

Yes the title says it all. Ubuntu has no root user by default. Well at least that is what they tell there users. There root user is still there, just locked out with no password. Also, apparently there are some applications that don’t understand root after you enable it that or they need a password less root account. While this can be good for new users, it still introduces a unique position for many people and also it can make recovery of the system much harder.

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