Steven M. Bak

So for reasons I wont get into, I signed up for the FE. This is the second step in the process to become a licensed engineer via the state of Michigan. http://www.ncees.org/licensure/licensure_for_engineers/

Basically I have two months to refresh/learn some serious, crazy, complex mind blowing doo doo.
For just a slight idea of what I have instore for myself, take a glance at this: http://www.ncees.org/exams/fundamentals/fe_exam_specs.pdf

I have set up a rigourous schedule of studying which is going to wear me the F out over the next two months… This 8 hour test aint no joke, or is it to be taken lightly.  If I pass it will open many doors for my future, if I fail…. hmmm… If I fail, I’ll dust myself off and try again, try again.

Obvioulsy this means that my projects will be slowed down, or be placed on slight hold. One thing that I did acomplish last weekend was an installation of MythBurn on FC4. There was not a lot of documentation on how to do this, so I will maybe make a how-to in the near future to address some of the dependencies. Specifically, projectX and Sun’s JRE.

MythTV is great. I used two great resources for getting it running.
YUM:http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html
MythTV:http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php

I did have two problems. The first was that I didn’t have all the public keys installed. Make sure that you yum -install all-GPG-keys or yum will exit.
Second problem was with MythWeb. Fedora Core 4 comes with SELinux. SElinux is a security measure, and it prevents mythweb from opening a socket to the mythbackend. To fix this problem you need to disable selinux:

vi /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=disabled

Then reboot the machine and you will be able to access mythweb