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perhaps this may give people a better portrail of g4techtv ratings and stop cancelling shows and firing show hosts like the screensavers.

I dropped cable many years ago and have four DirecTv boxes in the house so I can record multiple things at the same time and watch different channels in different rooms. Channel lineup is important to me. My favorite channel, Tech TV (with The Screen Savers show), is only available on DirecTv in Indianapolis. A heavy, wet snow will sometimes pack in the dish and I have to sweep it out. A heavy thunderstorm can sometimes black the signal out for a few minutes. The picture is typically better than cable. The DVR version required a dual-LNB dish and two cables routed from the dish to the box. Enjoy!

From what I understand, if you create a hotmail account with any common words in it, you'll start getting spam. Patrick Norton on The Screen Savers did just that and within two weeks started receiving mail without ever giving it out to anyone or using it in any forms. So much for the POS spammers saying that the only people that receive junk mail are people that opt-in. They have bots that just create account names to inform all of us how we can enlarge our penis.

I heard your mother used the photograph of my balls that she has to commission a painting done and now it hangs in the dining room. That must be a little problematic for you - having to look at my balls, knowing that your mother loves them with all her heart - but still feeling that lust in the pit of your stomach. That makes you quite gay but God has a batch of AIDS mixed up special for you.

Being a fucktard, you probably don't understand where I am coming from but then again, I don't consider eating shit from public phone booths a valuable use of my time. I will attempt to explain this to you. The majority of casual gamers (i.e. people who have a chance at touching a vagina at some point in their lives) don't care about an operating systems debate. They would like nothing more than to sit down in front of their television, press the goddamned power-button, and spend an hour or so playing a fucking game. Because these people represent the majority, a list of games composed of only games is quite significant. You are a fucking chimp and I will be dedicating the next pile of shit I drop in or around the toilet to your mother for producing such an awful human being. You are pathetic in the worst sense of the word. Perhaps you do have some knowledge of the computing machines that are all the rage these days ("The Internet" is a fad, you fag - I'm a clever writer) but your limited scope of understanding how these machines play in the minds of the masses proves that you really aren't intelligent. You can take in knowledge (enough of it to be knowledgeable because, frankly, you've got time on your hands now that your wife left you for a picture of my balls) but you can't think and deduce thoughts on your own. This means you're a fucking idiot. My dog is smarter than you and he eats his own shit. Oh...wait, you like Linux - you eat your own shit too.

Patrick from the Screen Savers [thescreensavers.com] claims to have had sex with you. Worse than that, he said he was the pitcher. Even in bed with bitches, you are the ultimate bitch.

(If any of you fags with mod points think this is either off-topic or flame-bait, then you are ball-sucking fags and you can suck Richard M. Nixon's bloated ball/penis. In other news, I banged your mom.

On December 19, 2002, Tech TV's The Screen Savers aired an episode in which Kevin Rose built a G4 in an ATX case. Most of the parts came from Mac Resq and others. It's an interesting article for anyone who wishes to tackle the project by themselves.

The segment was inspired by an aricle on MacOpz Web Site. I urge all to check it out.

Though this might end up costing a little more, there are benefits: You get to choose your own case (which must be slightly modified), and get the pleasure of building a computer that normally isn't built by anyone except Apple and the pizza box guy.

Tech TV's show The Screen Savers put a MAC and PC in the same box. It wasn't as cool as I thought it would be, but it worked.

I built a PC that may very well end up being a PVR-type device in this case. It requires a SFX-S power supply, though, which limits you to a few anemic power supplies, the best with a wattage of 185W. You can get good ones at PC Power And Cooling. I didn't trust the no-name PS that came with the case.

If you limit yourself to PIII mATX or EPIA-M motherboards, you will be able to build a nice TiVo-like device in it. However, you'll have to live with the beige color scheme, unless you want to go Yoshi on its @$$ and paint it up purdy :) ...

i think a show on scifi channel would actually be a good spot for something like this... like back when zdtv (the precursor to todays techtv) did its c|net shows on there. however a show on, for lack of a better and non-weenie word for it, 'cyber' politics and culture would be a good platform to get these things out. kind of like the screen savers but industry and political issue driven.

The Screensavers were talking about this a week ago.

The slashdot editors should be more interested in an Aibo that fetches today's paper.

Maybe then we can get News for Nerds, while it still matters.

I saw on The Screen Savers that Intertainer.com WAS doing online films. They had sample content, old TV shows and such, that ran pretty well over broadband.

They just closed shop and filed suit against the major US movie studios claiming that they couldn't get content at a reasonable price. It turns out that the movie studio "synergies" are set up to get any other source from being able to provide content.

So as we suspect, the MPAA isn't against movies being available on the net, they're just against the content coming from anywhere else than the big studios.

Patrick from the Screen Savers claims to have had sex with you. Worse than that, he said he was the pitcher. Even in bed with bitches, you are the ultimate bitch.

(If any of you fags with mod points think this is either off-topic or flame-bait, then you are ball-sucking fags and you can suck Richard M. Nixon's bloated ball/penis. In other news, I banged your mom.

Love Always,
Capt. Giant Dick

This was featured on Tech TV's The Screen Savers a while back, and is also how I discovered XOSL (great graphical boot manager).

Actually, on an episode of "The Screen Savers" they did a thing about Burning Man, and apparently it's really wired, complete with Internet access. Seriously. If I could find the story, I'd post it to the list (if someone else would find it, that would help too).

The story would be somewhere at The Screen Savers website

Tech tv should be showing more about linux.

The Screen Savers talk about it now and then, along with BSD, Mac OS X, etc. I get the feeling they'd like to talk more about alternative OSes than they do, they've all but said so, but they also state that by far the majority of their viewers are (take a guess...) Windows users. But, they usually mention linux at least once per show. They have tux items all over their set too.

The show that i liked the most, Silicon Spin, they moved it somehow in some weird hours and i can not watch it anymore. Hey TECH TV PEOPLE: I want Silicon Spin back at 9:30pm or 10:00 pm and make it longer than 30 minutes.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but...
Silicon Spin was cancelled. It's not running at some weird hours, it's not running at all. If it makes you feel any better, the last show was about linux on the desktop.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi

Yes, the author is amazingly optimistic about human intelligence in general. They should not be taken seriously. I saw an interview with this guy on TechTV during an airing of The Screensavers, and I feel I can safely state that the author would agree with me in saying that it's not the foretelling that's important, but rather the intentions and thoughts behind them.

Let's not forget that Americans living during the 1900s lived in slums in the major cities of New York and Chicago. They invisioned flying cars and personal spacecraft before stumbling onto the Great Depression and two world wars. Let's not _underestimate_ human achievement either.

The author's intentions in this is to show what _can_ happen, given the proper circumstances and funding. I personally feel that if and when some glorious invention / annovation is made (e.g., time travel or "cure" for aging), it will be developed (and thus _patented_) by a whatever company creates it, and thus, most people will never see its hayday, until half a century later when politicians realize what a fucked up world it is. I can envision a world where time travel is patented by Sony and there's a huge Nike swoosh over Mars. Basically the worst parts of the Bible and The Matrix.

IMO, the author simply wants to foster intelligent conversation among people who care: this is what the world can be like. Here's what has to be done to prevent that... The power rests in your hands. Welcome to the Real World.

They were revving 'em up without the heatsink.

• Points of Intrist in the BoF Post:
  
• "Mac OS X has the power and openness of Unix, with the simplicity and friendliness of a Mac"
  Apple took BSD and built a new GUI with some nifty features to make the Mac community accept it. Don't get me wrong I love BSD and I think that OS X will be good for it. But really how much did Apple do here?
  
• What went to WindRiver:... FreeBSD-related work
  And yet again there is the shadey sound of Windriver playing with words about FreeBSD. It isn't possible for them to OWN FreeBSD, but watch them overstepping their bounds guys.
  
• OpenBSD received a DARPA grant to continue the security work its been doing.
  Still trying to get at Mitnicks encrypted data (read porn) eh big bro?
  
• OpenBSD Received a legal threat from OpenSSH.com, demanding that they change the OpenBSD name, which they refused (good for you!)
  Because you know that the goals of Open Source software projects are purely evil... they were planning on trying to sell back the name and then dominate the world muuuaaahhahahahahahah hah ha ha ha ah ahhh ahhha ah....
  
• FreeBSD: [Jordan Hubbard] Mentioned he was working on speeding up the boot process...hey, that'd be nice!
  yeah I seem to recall the boot being a little slow when I last booted a month ago... of course Microsoft has already got the golden pair... fast boot so you can crash sooner.
  
• AMD and Intel step up FreeBSD efforts
  I really hope this leads to them competing on who can donate the most money to Open Source.
  
• Microsoft renounces evil, switches to FreeBSD
  I seem to recall Hotmail switching from BSD to 2k (so thats why my email got so much slower and less predictable)
  
• NO PLANS TO PORT OS X TO x86 HARDWARE!
  Damn, I guess I won't be doing the OS-X benchmarking then.
  
• OS X: Fully integrated JDK 1.3
  woohoo... I am a java programmer, and while some many people around here hate java support of it will promote Open Source
  
• OS X: Key productivity applications (MS Office...)
  I wonder if StarOffice will come bundled for a little of taste of Microsofts own medicine (but IE MUST come preinstalled)
  

Last night on TechTV the show The Screen Savers did a live install of Linux Mandrake 8.0

You can get all of that information and more off of their web site.
They downloaded the ISO images (2 of them) and burned them onto CD's and did the expert install to show all of the new features.... Extremely simple install and partition...
Give it up for Mandrake

Linuxrunner

on ScreenSavers he mention ed a target price of $299.