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treeps - To see what's going on, by whom and to kill/mod stuff! Also explore /proc
locate - To find the files quick
man -k - To find the tools quick
DirRadar - To get places quick
sh -x - To see what script magic happens
awk - Still gawking after all those beers
grep - To cut to the chase
ssh/scp - MultiMachine magic tricks - ok to copy configs
find - still a nice power tool for subspace command execution ;)
tar/gzip - Still the best transporter technology!

See http://www.orbit2orbit.com/gmd for treeps/DirRadar.

With the ethernet connection and the ability to share shows why do you even need to have that feature? I mean you can essentially watch 20 shows that were all on at the same time with a 4000 series machine! Just download them from someone else! B.t.w. you can also hack a RTV with more disks, or simply offload the shows via the ethernet connection. Then watch them on your PC(Linux and Zine work just fine), or stream them back as desired! If you use multiple computers to offload to then you can essentially have unlimited storage - duh!

Lastly ReplayTV has nothing to do with Microsloth, in fact SB make and sell a number of Linux based products. That includes the ProGear webpad that's based on the Transmeta chip and is distributed with Linux!!! I use mine to remotely control my ReplayTV via it's ethernet connection:

Linux webpad remote

Closeup

Linux Remote Control Panels

With the ethernet connection and the ability to share shows why do you even need to have that feature? I mean you can essentially watch 20 shows that were all on at the same time with a 4000 series machine! Just download them from someone else! B.t.w. you can also hack a RTV with more disks, or simply offload the shows via the ethernet connection. Then watch them on your PC(Linux and Zine work just fine), or stream them back as desired! If you use multiple computers to offload to then you can essentially have unlimited storage - duh!

Lastly ReplayTV has nothing to do with Microsloth, in fact SB make and sell a number of Linux based products. That includes the ProGear webpad that's based on the Transmeta chip and is distributed with Linux!!! I use mine to remotely control my ReplayTV via it's ethernet connection:

Linux webpad remote

Closeup

Linux Remote Control Panels

With the ethernet connection and the ability to share shows why do you even need to have that feature? I mean you can essentially watch 20 shows that were all on at the same time with a 4000 series machine! Just download them from someone else! B.t.w. you can also hack a RTV with more disks, or simply offload the shows via the ethernet connection. Then watch them on your PC(Linux and Zine work just fine), or stream them back as desired! If you use multiple computers to offload to then you can essentially have unlimited storage - duh!

Lastly ReplayTV has nothing to do with Microsloth, in fact SB make and sell a number of Linux based products. That includes the ProGear webpad that's based on the Transmeta chip and is distributed with Linux!!! I use mine to remotely control my ReplayTV via it's ethernet connection:

Linux webpad remote

Closeup

Linux Remote Control Panels

Been doing universal remote control on my Linux box for well over a year now. I use the IRman for input, LIRC + some translator code/macros on the Linux box and the RedRat2 for output. It means I can use any remote as my "one" remote. I use the X10 for both input and output, remotely turning on/off the mp3 player in the office from the living room...

I use the RedRat2 + some code on my linux box to control my PVR's. Which means I can pull up a TV window and setup recordings using mouse and keyboard! Pretty close to what you want. See

Xr3 - A/V Control Package for Linux

Also checkout XMLtv for pulling down TV guide data into local XML files and converting them to html pages.

XMLtv

Linux tools for Serial Port IR blaster

You might find the "autopilot" based search tool quite useful :)

You can also hook up an IRman for IR input and then do "Ungodly-Macros(TM)"... Penguin power at it's best!!!!

Add a TV card with closed caption capture to your Linux box. Then setup a schedule to capture the text from shows that you might be interested in(use cron anyone). Then use that to build the search data base. Search with grep ... Now the tricky part. Use the same schedule to record things on your ReplayTV/TiVo. How? Well to make it easy use a computer controled IR remote, such as a RedRat2 on Linux. Then when you get search hit's lookup the database of shows you recorded and have a macro to jump you to the show and the appropriate offset. A ReplayTV can jumpto specific offsets in a show ...

To find shows to record you can use something like the power search utility that I wrote for my ReplayTV -> ReplayTV Search Tools for Linux.

If your really up for some fun you could get a number of PVR's and play them in concert. The new ReplayTV's (4k's) can transfer shows via the netowrk/lan. Some hackers are now pulling shows off to the PC and viewing them there as well! Archiving to CD/DVD!!!! I suppose you could do the jumpto right on the PC as well, if you have the 4k.

Add a TV card with closed caption capture to your Linux box. Then setup a schedule to capture the text from shows that you might be interested in(use cron anyone). Then use that to build the search data base. Search with grep ... Now the tricky part. Use the same schedule to record things on your ReplayTV/TiVo. How? Well to make it easy use a computer controled IR remote, such as a RedRat2 on Linux. Then when you get search hit's lookup the database of shows you recorded and have a macro to jump you to the show and the appropriate offset. A ReplayTV can jumpto specific offsets in a show ...

To find shows to record you can use something like the power search utility that I wrote for my ReplayTV -> ReplayTV Search Tools for Linux.

If your really up for some fun you could get a number of PVR's and play them in concert. The new ReplayTV's (4k's) can transfer shows via the netowrk/lan. Some hackers are now pulling shows off to the PC and viewing them there as well! Archiving to CD/DVD!!!! I suppose you could do the jumpto right on the PC as well, if you have the 4k.

Well not the downloading, but I can remote control the beast and watch it on my computer. Why do I need to store the stuff on my computer, that's what the PVR is for!

A/V Control from your Linux Machine

Yeah TV ain't what it used to be, there are occasionally some good programs on now adays! Man some of those educational courses are actual college courses!

I watch TV while browsing the web, listening to mp3's and doing development ->
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You can setup remote control of your PC with an IRman from Evation. I use this to control xmms, there is a plug in so it's trivial to setup. You can also setup a much more complex IR gateway using software from LIRC. This will allow you to map IR input to shell scripts.

For IR output I quite like the RedRat2 as an IR driver. I wrote some GUI software for it, initially to drive my ReplayTV, but eventually to drive my whole A/V stack. See Linux RedRat2 Software. The package can easily be used to wrap a simple control panel around most any mechanism(IR, X10, web, ...). For example I used the same software to create a control panel for my TV card(All in Wonder Pro). Here is a screenshot

The home grown package I have put together gives me most of what I want. It's lacking some integration, the ability to use the TV as the visual interface, a web gateway ... Then there are some features such as librarian and presentation tools. It would be rather cool to be able to script a Music/Video/Picture/X10 party mix!!!

You can setup remote control of your PC with an IRman from Evation. I use this to control xmms, there is a plug in so it's trivial to setup. You can also setup a much more complex IR gateway using software from LIRC. This will allow you to map IR input to shell scripts.

For IR output I quite like the RedRat2 as an IR driver. I wrote some GUI software for it, initially to drive my ReplayTV, but eventually to drive my whole A/V stack. See Linux RedRat2 Software. The package can easily be used to wrap a simple control panel around most any mechanism(IR, X10, web, ...). For example I used the same software to create a control panel for my TV card(All in Wonder Pro). Here is a screenshot

The home grown package I have put together gives me most of what I want. It's lacking some integration, the ability to use the TV as the visual interface, a web gateway ... Then there are some features such as librarian and presentation tools. It would be rather cool to be able to script a Music/Video/Picture/X10 party mix!!!

You can also use a PVR as a peripheral. I have been doing this for 8 months and it's great, all the advantages of seperate components plus all the advantages of an integrated system. See

You can also use a PVR as a peripheral. I have been doing this for 8 months and it's great, all the advantages of seperate components plus all the advantages of an integrated system. See