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Browser detection using javascript (without looking at the UserAgent),
even detects TorBrowser. And Firefox 4+ vs Firefox 3.6.

But it's really hard to detect Chrome from Iron without relying on UserAgent.

I like to detect IE and such, politely suggest those users with links to better browsers,
like Opera Portable or Palemoon Portable or Iron Portable.
http://opera-usb.com
http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-portable.shtml
http://www.srware.net/downloads/IronPortable.zip

"Romanes Eunt Domus"

Brian: Third person plural, present indicative. "They go!"
Centurion: But "Romans, go home" is an order, so you must use the...?
Brian: The... imperative!
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: I!
Centurion: [twisting Brian's ear] How many Romans?
Brian: [yelling] I.. Plural, plural! Ite, ite!
Centurion: [writing] Ite. Domus? Nominative? But "go home", it is motion towards, isn't it, boy?

full transciprt of this scene can be found
http://web.comhem.se/hansdotter/romanes.html

Ta ;)

I know you didn't mean the boot disk. Out of couriostity I downloaded dd to my XP desktop and mucked around a bit. The problem in Windows is there is no equivalent of /dev/zero and I also had trouble finding out how your reference devices under DOS. I was about to find out how to rip an iso from the cd drive, but accessing hard disk devices was another story.

I have a feeling there IS a way to do it. I just wasn't successful in finding all the info I needed in my short search.

Here is an place I found though...

It has a device driver for Windows that gives you access to the equivalent of /dev/zero and /dev/random in windows, and a utility call rawcopy.exe that is much like dd...

http://web.comhem.se/~u70313658/w32apps.htm

Kind of like this

Now the question is - how long do we have to put up with these SetTopBoxes? - (OK so it looks cool to have yet another gadget ;-) but i have personally seen one TV with built-in DVB decoder from a top japanese brand (not i stores yet) and I know that there are more om the way...

The price for a SetTopBox in sweden is now at 1 SEK (about 12 UScent) if you take a years subscription to a basic package for 149 SEK/month (about US$20/month)

Here in sweden some of the channels, six or seven out of currently 27 (growing to 35) are "free to air" (no encryption) and to buy a box for that i now 995 SEK (about US$125) anr rapidly reducing - in less than a year i would estimate (with some knowledge in the area) that the free-to-air-box wold come down to about 200-300 SEK (about US$25-40).

The channels going free-to-air are comersially based and according to newspapers are cashing on the larger audience with free-to-air....

In sweden we have both cable (ComHem and UPC) and satellite operators (Viasat and Canal Digital) and about 4 years ago a new company was started (Boxer) to send digital TV DVB-T - thay have now 200.000 customers (all others have more).

Oh.. BTW the swedish goverment have set at stop date for analog TV-transmissions to early 2008.

What is your guess and more important, why?

My guess is someone has a little too much time on their hands.

Why? Well, take a look at this.