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Wouldn't mind seeing those myself...

Please check out my website devoted to this stuff. Contributions welcome....

Digital Cablebox Compatibility Chart

Also, wouldn't mind having some pics of the 8000 series, if anyone feels like donating.

Thanks in advance....

So buy a BDM programming cable, and help me figure it out....

Details here.

What PVR is TW using?

It's most certainly not a "Time Warner" box. Usually, TW uses SciAtl stuff in markets it has owned for awhile, which means you're using the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 series (8600?).

If anyone wants to share some data, please check out my cablebox site. In particular, check out the compatibility database, and add whatever entries you can personally confirm.

Thanks.

Those of us who do research this stuff have tried to warn people. My god, believing a poorly worded ebay auction?

Ugh.

My digital cablebox site will tell you what little is known. If anyone wants to help, and designs PCI cards or demodulators for a living...

I'm sure most people have seen this poster...

When you pirate MP3s you're downloading Communism

But I was inspired to update it to reflect the current administration's agenda...

New and improved!

Only, I'm having some difficulty deciding who to put in the background, so I thought I'd let the Slashdot crew help.

Who should star in this new public service announcement?

A) A generic arab
B) Osama bin Laden
C) Saddam Hussein
D) Richard Reid (aka the Shoebomber)
E) Write-in: Please nominate someone

As for the top right symbol, I think that should be up for debate, but to start the ball rolling, might I suggest a flaming jetliner? Or the twin towers?

Thanks, I can't wait to finish it!

PS Please take note, it's a work in progress, so cut me some slack if you notice some minor flaws...

I'm sure most people have seen this poster...

When you pirate MP3s you're downloading Communism

But I was inspired to update it to reflect the current administration's agenda...

New and improved!

Only, I'm having some difficulty deciding who to put in the background, so I thought I'd let the Slashdot crew help.

Who should star in this new public service announcement?

A) A generic arab
B) Osama bin Laden
C) Saddam Hussein
D) Richard Reid (aka the Shoebomber)
E) Write-in: Please nominate someone

As for the top right symbol, I think that should be up for debate, but to start the ball rolling, might I suggest a flaming jetliner? Or the twin towers?

Thanks, I can't wait to finish it!

PS Please take note, it's a work in progress, so cut me some slack if you notice some minor flaws...

Digital Cable Recievers

And don't forget to do everyone a favor, and help add to the compatibility database...
*grin*

Already on it.

A little project I tinker with, from time to time...

Um, you mean the DCT-2000. And the Scientific Atlanta Explorer series is as prolific, if not more so.

I should know, check out my site.

Freenet is the p2p version of what I'm talking about, yeh.

But I don't want to trade mp3s... I just want to be able to run a tiny, modest website on my little broadband link. Maybe some other services. Only full IP connectivity will do.

Too bad I can't get a domain name, it's dhcp only.
Too bad that all the good names are taken because they were allocated in a pisspoor way.
Too bad that if they aren't taken, a corp would swoop down and claim trademark infringement or cybersquatting.

Too bad that port 80 is blocked, with bogus reasons.(why would you need it anyway, unless you are a evil hacker?)
Too bad that port 25 is blocked too. Not that I could do much with it, without a domain name.
Too bad that the type of site I might want to build offends corporate interests, even though it should be protected by the 1st amendment.

The list goes on... it's so long, I dunno that I want to finish it. Flame me if you want.

The reason the internet was great back then, wasn't because it took 48 hours of hair pulling to get your DOS ip stack configured correctly.

It was because dumbass politicians and greedy politicians hadn't touched it. They've spent the better part of a decade proving to us, that it wasn't because they couldn't.

But what if we could build a network that was extremely difficult for them to mess with?

What if it offered the same services as the regular net, fully routed static IP, DNS, and no restrictions. No one coming after you for posting files, building a website, or registering a domain name that some corps find offensive.

And as a side bonus, it might be just as complicated to get connected to it, as the internet originally was...

Read my unfinished webpage about it.

One where the authorities are powerless to stop those things that they hate, and where they couldn't identify those using it?

I've been thinking about something like this, ever since reading William's Otherland. In it, there is a virtual reality network only accessible to the hackers of the world, by invitation only. Completely non-technical, not to mention VR, but it started me thinking about how you could go about something like this.

If you care to hear more about this, read my work in progress page about it...

WARNING: I do tend to rant a bit, so it's not exactly prim and proper.

Here

C'mon guys, let's screw 'em like they've screwed us. Any help is appreciated, and I'm equally interested in Scientific Atlanta or Motorola/GI digital cableboxes.

You mean like the
rogue software I'm trying to create?

And no, this isn't a "free tv" thing for me, it's more like a "vengeance against AT&T" thing.

Not yet, I'm still busy hacking it.
Motorola(formerly General Instruments) digital cable TV reciever

So far as I know, I've stolen no service at all. Am seriously considering adding S-Video to it, and getting rid of the fucking onscreen ads (little quarter screen JPEGs in the guide menu).

;) Let's do the stuff they're too scared to do right...