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Linux-Powered PVR/Satellite Machine

Posted by timothy on from the even-just-the-divx-is-nice dept.

spicyjack writes "After reading this story, I thought this submit would be appropriate. A German company called Dream-Multimedia-TV has come up with a schweet custom box targeted for the PVR/Satellite markets. How about a machine with a 250Mhz IBM PowerPC, 2 SmartCard readers, one CompactFlash slot, UDMA66 IDE, MPEG2 support with MPEG4 (DivX) support on the way, Ethernet, LCD display, SPDIF out, yada yada yada (zipped User's Manual). Oh, and it is built specifically to run Linux. Available right now. Commence hacking!"

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  1. funny joke for you all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    boobies

    1. Re:funny joke for you all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That is awesome! How about a beowulf cluster of boobies?

    2. Re:funny joke for you all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That is totally sweet man. How about a beowulf cluster of boobies?!!!!

  2. Hmm fp?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sattelites are evil mokeys!!!
    im telling you Watch out!!!

  3. fp by MacGoldstein · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ummmm... fp

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  4. Primer Post CABRONES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't believe i got it

  5. oooh. Karma, Karma... by marcushnk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) In soivet russia
    2) Boewulf Clusters
    3) ???
    4) First post bots
    5) Profit :-P
    I hope this highlights how stupid we are as a race...

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    1. Re:oooh. Karma, Karma... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

      One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

      You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

      FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

      Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

      OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

      Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

      All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

      Fact: *BSD is dying

  6. FYFI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Boullion, first you fail it.
    Eat it, suckers.

  7. Wouldnt it be bad.. by jangell · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We would of been screwed if... Soviet Russia had a Beowulf cluster of these babies! *hides from wrath of - kharma*

  8. In Soviet Russia and East Germany... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    PVRs record you!

  9. Sheesh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This BLOG has had articles about linux PVRs over and over and over.
    Dammit get a fucking tivo.

    1. Re:Sheesh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      In Soviet Russia Tivos fuck you.

  10. Re:IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kicking someone's ass? That's a paddling!

  11. Just me or ... by weetabix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are there more AAC posts in the first 50 than member posts?

    Cluster of boobies. mmmm.

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  12. Re:$499 euros? by scotch · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Please keep the "In Soviet Russia" jokes coming. I can't get enough of them; I think I may be addicted! Please, don't worry about the mods, keep them coming. I came for the news, but stay for the "In soviet russia jokes". I have a vision: someday soon, an article will be posted to slashdot, and the only replies will be "In soviet russa" jokes, modded up to their full glory. I may cry. Please make it so.

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  13. Re:$499 euros? by scotch · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I think it was Jeff Foxworthy, in his semi-famous "you may be in soviet russia" bit. It was later copied by Rosie O'Donnel during her second season on Saturday Night Live, but she always gave Foxworthy credit, when questioned. O'Donnel is raising three children fathered by Foxworthy, but that occurred after the exchange of this comedic gem. Rumor has it that Foxworthy sold the rights to his "In Soviet Russia" screenplay. Stephen King was schedule to play the central character before his untimely death. In his Maine Home. He will be missed

    HTH

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  14. Re:$499 euros? by Deadric · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Waiting for the obligotory Stephen King comment:
    "No I didn't" and yes, I know, dont feed the trolls, I just always found the

    Troll: Stephen King Died
    Stephen King: "No, I didn't."

    enigma hilarious.

  15. Re:Not *quite* the ultimate system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What also could help is this ultimate system!

  16. Re:I wish I could find some .... USE MythTV!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It gave an article of slashdot the back sometime that MythTV mentioned. Last end of the week, packed up can tell is I delivery in the debian (although I abschreitet, would have the xmltv there the packets of deb old installed were) and I wow to each! that,,! Shackle Kuhstall for the 4 days and already recorded strips will be been programmed themselves I of more of 20. It makes find that time postponement material of Ish of Tivo, that I really cold, but uses something inutilmente for my purposes, because I MythTV chief for material of the record. And yet it is received can become been Liga in a rather comfortable tissue I the record also, removed by the computer then. . (Alone takes through it action in the frontend of mythweb through Php of Apache)

    The therewith removed permissions use that you receive two codecs (nuppelvideo and MPEG4), but for outside of any reason, I a bit better achievement with the material of nuppelvideo so that I stuck with that. But I think, am that that really large that selling tip of MythTV not the capacity,, records is is timeshifting, neither around the tissue übereinstimmt... it to that around of it interfaces graphically, comfortable, actual actual it. It reads should see alone really for itself acreditaá. Siento that had trained me when a potato born new was!

    The MythTV are that it packet of debian here [Edu has notified].

  17. You won't see this on TV! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.nata2.info/pictures/Incoming/gunship_vi deo.mpg

    (164MB)

    The video shows repeated bombing (not shooting or rocketing) of men running to escape, the bombs guided by a standoff aircraft. Vehicles and buildings are bombed as well, but most of the carnage is aimed at men trying to escape the attack. One poor bastard is bombed several times over hundreds of yards, barely evading the hits, then finally blown to shit hunkered in bushes. Medal-winning overkill snuff for the high-tech horny military.

    http://www.cryptome.org/