Zero Plays Television

At long last, I have audio and visual cable TV on my computer. Again. This time around, though, it’s the new ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder card that’s providing the TV tuning. It took some hoop-jumping to get working, including a switch to the Alsa sound drivers. Turns out that yes, Virginia, the internal audio cables on the AiW Radeon are just like those on earlier AiW models.

In other news, I’ve stocked my Mozilla 1.0.0-rc1 install with the usual slate of plugins; Acrobat Reader, RealPlayer and the Java Runtime Environment 1.4.0 are all installed on the box; Evolution is working perfectly. It kind of balances out the parts of my workday that were totally crappy…