802.11b on your Tivo

Otto writes: "Those who don't regularly read the Tivo Community Forums may not know that a 802.11b wireless adapter for the Tivo, called AirNet, is in the works. It's being made by jafa, who also created the TurboNet card, a similar device to the TivoNet adapters available at 9thTee but faster. Long story short, he's auctioning off 4 beta boards of the AirNet adapter for the Tivo and giving the proceeds to the Elf Foundation, a group which brings Home Theater to ill children by setting up mini-theaters in children's hospitals nationwide. Good fun techie geek stuff, and for charity too! You can't beat that. The auction is here on ebay." Looks like the guy's home page is silicondust.com.

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Slashdot Subscription Funds to Pay For Taco-Fent W

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's analyze this scenario for a moment: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda proposes to his long time girlfriend Kathleen Fent on February 14, 2002. Now lets assume that this proposal was accompanied with an engagement ring, which can be a very pricy item. Then on March 1, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda drops a bombshell on the Slashdot community with news of a subscription service:

"For some time now we have been developing a unique subscription system that we hope will make our users and advertisers happy." -CmdrTaco, 03.02.2002

This subscription service, that had been developed "for some time," is nothing more then a counter script and a PayPal account. Are we to believe that this "Subscription Service" was a long developing site enhancement? Isn't it in fact more likely, that Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda received the first bill of the aforementioned engagement ring, panicked, and developed this hastily put together scheme?

I am not fooled...

Wassup Mateys and Wenches!

[Anonymous Coward]

yo ho ho, im the pirate troll. suck on my peg leg all you slashdot biiiatches!

TP

[Anonymous Coward]

I need TeePee for my bung-hole.

Re:Slashdot Subscription Funds to Pay For Taco-Fen

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmm. Very interesting. I myself think it's to pay for living quarters for his laotian fuck-boy Twan after Katherine kicked him out.

Re:on my handspring

[n9hmg]

Sorry for the nearly contentless post. I had to move quickly to keep a troll from first post.

Operating Systems That Are DYING!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Connectivity allows applications to transparently communicate with other programs or processes, regardless of their location. The key element of connectivity is the network operating system (NOS). NOS provides services such as routing, distribution, messaging, file and print, and network management services. NOS rely on communication protocols to provide specific services. The protocols are divided into three groups: media, transport and client-server protocols. Media protocols determine the type of physical connections used on a network (some examples of media protocols are Ethernet, Token Ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), coaxial and twisted-pair). A transport protocol provides the mechanism to move packets of data from client to server (some examples of transport protocols are Novell's IPX/SPX, Apple's AppleTalk, Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile(GOSIP)). Once the physical connection has been established and transport protocols chosen, a client-server protocol is required before the user can access the network services. A client-server protocol dictates the manner in which clients request information and services from a server and also how the server replies to that request (some examples of client- server protocols are NetBIOS, RPC, Advanced Program-to-Program Communication (APPC), Named Pipes, Sockets, Transport Level Interface (TLI) and Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX)).

Re:on my handspring

[GigsVT]

So lets see here.

1. You didn't get first post, a troll beat you my a couple seconds.

2. You create even more noise, apologising for trying to get first post.

3. Your name on here is your ham radio call sign, so now everyone knows where you live, and your real name.

I think you have just qualified for idiot of the year award. :)

Re:on my handspring

[Cheetah86]

4. He got modded up for an apology which should have been neutral and neither modded up nor down.

Re:on my handspring

[GigsVT]

Well, that's not his fault really.

Besides, once the editors are done with the IRC thing, this whole thread will be bitchslapped offtopic.