Turn your PS2 into a Tivo

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:00AM from the everyone-loves-tivo dept.

aagha writes "According to this story on CNET's News.com, two Texas companies will offer software to give your PS2, Tivo-like functionality." I'm all for anything that gets more people PVRs or PS2s ;) Course I think the next GTA and Tony Hawk will do more for the cause of the PS2.

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Gentoo and UTournament by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 00:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Epic Games' much-anticipated Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo is now available on a self-booting Gentoo Linux-based LiveCD, allowing you to play the Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo using any modern PC with an NVIDIA GeForce 2 or greater graphics card and a CD-ROM drive. Full networking, OSS sound and Creative Soundblaster Live! and Audigy support included, allowing for the full gaming experience including LAN/Internet play, EAX environmental audio and of course 3D accelerated OpenGL graphics. The CD also serves as a fully-functional Gentoo Linux installation CD. Go grab it here!
1. Re:Gentoo and UTournament by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 00:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  ..And this story got rejected? Don't worry, I'm sure it will be published 2 weeks later.
2. Re:Gentoo and UTournament by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 00:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  It's nice to notice you appreciate your wife and son THAT much! I wouldn't let my wife in same room with my computer!
fp by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 00:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

eat it, Trebek!
1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 00:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Suck it Trebek....Suck it long, and suck it hard!
  
  Posh Frost!
I have a TiVO and I love it! tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 00:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The Future of SLASHDOT.

2002. Slashdot publishes 1,000,000th rumor passed off as actual story. The story generates 480 comments, 263 of which agree with the article, and 107 of which point out it's a rumor and are modded down as redundant. The remaining comments are all "first posts." or posts that contain any rational insight are modded "troll."
2002. CmdrTaco married to a human female, reports are that she does not have 46 chromosomes, however. Fent does display tendency to retardation.
2002. Slashdot parent corporation VA Research^W Linux^W Software stock worth 35 cents. Rumors that AOL, Microsoft, or even Jimmy the hobo who lives under the Longfellow Bridge may buy it.
2003. VA Software bought by Microsoft for a cup of coffee and a donut. All Microsoft-critical articles mysteriously disappear from Slashdot. Bill Gates as Borg logo replaced with Bill Gates as God. (Taco suggested that in order to be "God," or his vision of God, Gates would have to be seen in a NAMBLA T-shirt. Luckily good taste prevails in favor of the old man image in glowing aura.)
2004. CmdrTaco loses virginity, well, not sex with men virginity, that's long since gone, and not sex with anime blow up dolls, this time, real sex.
2004. The WIPO Troll returns again, showering Slashdot in 45,000 copies of the same post: "Lick my crotch hairs." Slashdot, despite running on 18 redundant IIS/8.0Beta6 servers, buckles under the load. The term "Slashdotted" is replaced with "WIPO-Trolled."
2004. Slashdot officially shut down. Millions of screaming, unwashed geeks invade Redmond campus and lynch Bill Gates.
2005. Linus Torvalds and Anal Cox found dead along with six penguins, a tub of crisco and several used condoms. FreeBSD users are glad the insanity is dying.
2005. CmdrTaco rumored to have had sex again, even with constant Viagra therapy, it took this long. He complains, I can be ready to go again in five minutes if I was looking at a nude man, to the dyslexic Fent.
2006. CowboiKneel found dead in hotel room with 56 pizza boxes covering his bloated corpse. Three suffocated gay prostitutes are extracted from beneath his body as police remove it with a backhoe.
2007. CmdrTaco actually has sex again, this time plugging Fent in the ass for a more manlike feel.
2007. BSD is still officially "dying." No word on when its demise will take place. FreeBSD 9 is delivered in perfect working order in a coherent superior, commercially viable and useable fashion with real documentation, the same practice followed since inception. Linux lunatics, after the death of Cox, are still trying to perfect the Trident driver while ignoring the existence of the GeForce 9 [Anyone have one of these? There are only 3 known Trident based cards left in the whole world? Please Contact Marcelo Tosatti. Expect a short, rude reply.]. Netcraft dies along with all the surveys they held on Microsoft and Linux servers are lost as well.
2007. CmdrTaco starts new weblog to replace Slashdot, creatively named Dotslash. Remainder of Linux users flock to the site and immediate WIPO-Troll it out of existence.
2007. Box running FreeBSD for 6 years sets world record for Unix uptime on consumer hardware.
2008. CmdrTaco has sex with his wife for the first time without thinking of men. He has dawned on the extra sexual pick me up for his twisted mind, small children.
2009. Marcelo Tosatti finally releases a version of the 2.4 Linux Kernel that is useable 2.4.29-RC2099.alpha.stage.99 (not -STABLE!). Fuck you Marcelo, YOU SUCK as a MAINTAINER.
Huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 00:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What if I was just to kick the ever-loving shit outta you?
Even better, turn your Tivo in to a PS2: by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 00:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Just follow this link for a step by step guide.
OT :Re:Another use... by kuiken · 2002-09-17 00:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Talking about ps2 linux
any one happen to know where you can find the ps2 linux kit in europe ?

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Off topic but Needed by uberlinuxguy · 2002-09-17 00:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Slashdot sucks my balls. They don't post stories that need be posted. Selective censorships is their only game. suck my balls slashdot, suck them raw. (This had to be re-written cuz slashdot no only suck my balls but also sucks the balls of the elephant at the local zoo cuz they wouldn't let me use caps to yell about this. you are the ones who are the ball lickers slashdot. g'd d'mned uncle f'ckers.)

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1. Re:Off topic but Needed by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 01:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Slashdot can't suck your testicles because it has no mouth -- it is an Internet-based forum service.
  
  At any rate, I don't understand your preference for having your testicles sucked until you are hurt.
  
  Slashdot is only acting in your best interest by preferring that you not use all-capital letters in your posts since you are obviously stupid enough to try.
  
  In the future, you might consider the "count to ten" method of self control, wherein you count the numbers one to ten, aloud, before reacting to anything you find irritating. It might not prevent you from doing anything stupid, but at least it gives the rest of us a ten-second break from your monstrous inmaturity.
  
  In the meantime, I recommend Strunk and White's The Elements of Style or the Chicago Manual of Style to address your other writing deficiencies.
2. Re:Off topic but Needed by repetty · 2002-09-17 01:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Slashdot won't let you type in all caps?
  
  Awesome!
  
  Thanks, Slashdot.
Re:Simplicity by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 00:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Micro$oft Winblows

Grow up.
If you need a PC to actually record anything... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-17 01:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...surely it should be "Turn your PS/2 into a TiVo"?

just a thought, y'know...
Ugh. Get over it! PS2 != PS/2 by psxndc · 2002-09-17 01:49 · Score: 2, Offtopic

I am sooooo tired of seeing the "oh I thought they meant the old computer..." jokes, references whatever. I had a PS/2, I have a PS2. It was funny 3 years ago when SONY was naming the next Playstation. Now it's just as lame as "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of ...". It's old, it's been done, please move on.
psxndc

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