I tried various plugins to do this, but none of them worked. I found this site, which shows how to make the change by hand.

This is my original function.php from my theme

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar();
 
add_filter('comments_template', 'legacy_comments');
function legacy_comments($file) {
	if(!function_exists('wp_list_comments')) 	$file = TEMPLATEPATH . '/legacy.comments.php';
	return $file;
}
 
?>

To get it to work, you need to insert this code after “register sidebar” and before “add filter.” You can use whatever version is available on the site. I used 1.3.2 because it was the one specified in my theme and it was smaller than the 1.4 versions.

if(is_admin()) return;
 
wp_deregister_script('jquery');
wp_register_script('jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js');
wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}

Enter FireRecord. It makes it much simpler, but with caveats. To use it…

1. Plug a firewire cable between your Mac (I use an older, slow Intel Mac Mini hooked into a QNAP Nas for storage) and your cable box. This is designed for most standard cable boxes – the FireRecord site has more information on supported boxes.
2. Download and install FireRecord.
3. Run the program, pick a channel and set the start and end time.
4. Once the recording is done, you have a large file with a .m2t extension.  You need to massage it before it very usable.
5. Download MPEG Streamclip. There are other solutions for the Mac, but they cost quite a bit more. I’ve not found a free solution.
6. You need to install the QuickTimeMPEG2.component, which you have to purchase from Apple (~ $20/US.) When I ran the install program it said that I needed to install Rosetta for the program to run. Rather than do that, you can drill down into the package and find the file. It lives in the package as Archive.pax.gz. If you copy that file to your desktop, you can uncompress it by double clicking the file. Once you’ve got the resulting QuickTimeMPEG2.component file, just copy it to /System/Library/QuickTime (you’ll need to authenticate before copying it over.)
7. Now you can use MPEG Streamclip to export the video to other formats.

That’s it. It’s crazy easy.

There are caveats

1. You don’t get a guide. You need to know what channel and what time your program is.
2. You can’t watch anything else while recording. The firewire port spits out what’s on your television. The flip side is that anything you can watch on TV you can record, even premium channels (not tested yet.)
3. The resulting file is only tagged with the file name you gave it (i.e. Discover.m2t.) No fancy file tagging like you get with EyeTV, but a pass through MetaX can fix that.
4. (NEW) Apparently you can’t turn off your cable box or your Mac will have trouble finding the device when you power it back on.

Updated June 29, 2010

25th Hour
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
300
310 To Yuma
400 Blows
47 Ronin
7 Samurai
7 Up
A Home at the End of the World
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God
Alexander Nevsky
Along Came a Spider
American Flyers
American Gangster
American Splendor
An Inconvenient Truth
Angels & Demons
Anvil
Apocalypto
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
Be Kind Rewind
Becoming Jane
Bee Movie
Being There
Black Narcissus
Black Orpheus
Blade Runner – The Final Cut
Blades Of Glory
Bonnie and Clyde
Boogie Nights
Borat – Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Breaking Away
Breathless
Burn After Reading
Bus 174
Casino Royale (1967)
Casino Royale
Cats And Dogs
Charlie Wilsons War
Children of Men
Cinderella Man
City of Ember
Cloverfield
Conan The Barbarian
Coraline
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dark City
Darkon
Das Boot – Part 1
Das Boot – Part 2
Dazed and Confused
Death at a Funeral
Delicatessen
District 9
Dog Day Afternoon
Doubt
Dr
Drugstore Cowboy
Eagle vs Shark
Eight and a Half
Emperors New Groove
Employee of the Month
Enlightenment Guaranteed
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Excalibur
Fahrenheit 451
Fanny & Alexander
Fantastic Mr
Favela Rising
Fight Club
Food, Inc
Frida
Get Shorty
Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Goodbye Lenin
Gran Torino
Grey Gardens
Grindhouse Presents – Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof
Grizzly Man
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Shearer – Now You See It
Help
Hot Fuzz
House of Sand
Howls Moving Castle
Hulk
I Am Legend
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
I Robot
Idiocracy
Ikiru (To Live)
In Bruges
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Inglourious Basterds
Intermission
Into The Wild
Iron Man
Jet Li’s Fearless
Jindabyne
Jules and Jim
Julie and Julia
Juno
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Knocked Up
Koyaanisqatsi
Kung Fu Hustle
La Dolce Vita
La Strada
Lars And The Real Girl
Layer Cake
Leap Year
Let The Right One In
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Logan’s Run
Lord of the Rings
Los cronocrímenes (Timecrimes)
March of the Penguins
Match Point
Michael Clayton
Minority Report
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Monsters, Inc
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Mr And Mrs Smith
Munich
Nacho Libre
New Moon
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Night Of The Hunter
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Nights of Cabiria
No Country for Old Men
North By Northwest
October Sky
Old Boy
Overlord
Pans Labyrinth
Persepolis
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pink Floyd The Wall
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Platoon
Powaqqatsi
Public Enemies
Quantum of Solace
Rabbit Proof Fence
Race to Witch Mountain
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rashomon
Ratatouille
Religulous
Repo Man
Reservoir Dogs
Riding Giants
Robot Chicken – Star Wars
Rocky
Run Lola Run
Rush Hour 3
Rushmore
Sense and Sensibility
Sexy Beast
Shaolin Soccer
Shaun of the Dead
Shoot The Piano Player
Shopgirl
Sid & Nancy
Sideways
Sin City
Sita Sings The Blues
Slumdog Millionaire
Some Like It Hot
Spartan
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
Star Trek
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Stardust
Step Brothers
Sunshine Cleaning
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Syriana
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Thank You for Smoking
The Beales of Grey Gardens
The Beast With A Billion Backs
The Big Lebowski
The Brothers Bloom
The Bucket List
The Constant Gardener
The Corporation
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
The Da Vinci Code
The Darjeeling Limited
The Day of the Jackal
The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain
The Fall
The Fast Runner
The Fifth Element
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Girlfriend Experience
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
The Godfather: Part III
The Hangover
The Hurt Locker
The Incredible Hulk
The Informant
The Italian Job
The Last Days of Disco
The Last Man on Earth
The Life Aquatic
The Lookout
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Mummy Returns
The Neverending Story II
The Night Of The Iguana
The Omega Man
The Painted Veil
The Proposition
The Quiet Man
The Rage of Placid Lake
The Reader
The Rookie
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Signal
The Simpsons Movie
The Squid And The Whale
The Station Agent
The Tale of Despereaux
The Triplets of Belleville
The Wicker Man
The Wrestler
There Will Be Blood
Tokyo Drifter
Total Recall
Trailer Park Boys – Countdown To Liquor Day
Transformers
Tropic Thunder
Tsotsi
Tulpan
Twilight
Two English Girls
Tyson
Unforgiven
Up
V for Vendetta
Vengeance Is Mine
WALL-E
Waiting for Guffman
Waitress
Walk The Line
Waltz with Bashir
Watchmen
Whale Rider
Where the Wild Things Are
White Sun Of The Desert
Wild at Heart
Willow
Worlds Fastest Indian
X Files – I Want To Believe
X-Men Origins Wolverine
Y tu mamá también
Zack and Miri
Zombieland
Zoolander

I also have some of the following TV shows, some complete, most are not…

American Experience
Animatrix
Art Wolfe
Austin City Limits
Australia
Battlefield Britain
Black Adder
Chef!
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Family Guy
Firefly
Flight of the Conchords
Frontline
Globe Trekker
Guns, Germs and Steel
Independent Lens
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Jeeves and Wooster
John Adams
Johnny Cash
Kids in the Hall
Long Way Round
MythBusters
Nature
Network Trash Folder
No Reservations
Nova
Passport to Adventure
Planet Earth
Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose
Rudy Maxa’s World
Sarah Silverman
Star Trek – The Next Generation
The Desert Speaks
The IT Crowd
The Sopranos
Trailer Park Boys

ssh-keygen -t dsa -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa -C "your.email.address"

Copy the public key to the remote server

scp id_dsa.pub username@remoteserver.com:~/.ssh/

This whole exercise relies on correct permissions on important files. You should keep your private key very secure, for reasons other than getting this to work correctly.

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_dsa

On the remote server, let’s add your public key to the authorized keys file, which lives in your home account

cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys2
chmod 644 authorized_keys2
chmod 700 ~/.ssh

Back on your local machine, you now need to authorize yourself to use the new public key. For OS-X it easy. Just connect to a box that has a shared key. You’ll get
To add identities to your keychain without the popup box (OS-X only)

ssh-add -K

To add the identities previously stored in your keychain (OS-X only)

ssh-add -k

For other unixes you can add the key manually (this works on OS-X too.)

ssh-add

To see what keys you have loaded (again, all Unixes, including OS-X)

ssh-add -l

To delete keys (this will delete from your keychain too)

ssh-add -d

There are a lot of cool things you can do with ssh-add. The man pages are your friend.