Re: [SLUG] Moving from RR Cable to Verizon DSL = mucho easy

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 09:40:29 EDT


> The Chinese news is hilarious, until I remember that very many people
> live there and all they can hear about is how their Great Leader did
> this and that for them today because he loves them so much. They will
> never read this. They might get arrested if they did. (Is anyone
> knocking at (or down) your door?)

On a related issue, did anyone see that picture that the Iraqi
propagandists were distributing among the people a few months ago? It was
GWB as a vampire with big fangs and blood dripping from his mouth.
Hi-larious! (Monty Burns voice)

> To bring this back on topic, people have been hacking TIVO boxen. TIVO
> seems to run Linux. Further, folks have been putting TV tuner cards in
> Linux boxen to time-shift programs. It even lets you fastforward
> through the commercials, and don't be thinking there aren't some
> capitalist folks upset about that.

A Tivo is basically a PPC Linux box with some customized hardware and
preloaded custom software. You can get ethernet cards and all sorts of
things for them. It's a touchy subject with the media moguls, though, I
think - the only saving graces in their POV, I'm sure, are the facts that
the Tivo subscription software isn't publicly available (although I'm sure
it will only be a matter of time before it's reverse-engineered), and that
you _need_ a subscription.

Levi



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