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Pluto: Linux-based Do-everything System
tazzzzz writes "Ever wanted an easy-to-configure, whole-house, internet-accessible, Linux-based VOIP PBX with video, PVR, firewall/router, security system, MP3 player, file server, personal web server, home automation (lights, thermostat) controller? I just came across the Pluto which claims to do all of this (and more, of course!). It'll set you back $15,000 if you're living in a small bachelor pad, but you didn't need that car anyway, did you?"
"I'm afraid I can't do that David"
But my name's Mike. Hey, where'd Poole go?
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
$15000 bucks is a little less what I make per year. It'd be much more cost effective if I built one of these myself. Not that I need one, anyway. VoA (Voice over Air), gesture controlled light switches and junk-made file/mp3/web server work perfectly well at my home.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you
Yes, but does it run Linu...
Oh, wait.
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I see they forgot to implement anti-slashdotting in their security feature.
cooked, cleaned, played music and gave you updates on all your favorite shows, while having I/O communication (read into the I/O and you will get the joke). Why you can then replace your own girlfriend, and patch her everytime a new kernel came out.
. . . this thing made a good cup of coffee. Then we might be able to talk . . .
Eagerly awaiting the mod to "-1, Troll".
Not if Pluto comes with four wheels and a V8 engine.
Hate me!
Sounds like a Mikey Mouse operation here.
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"Ours was a free culture. It is becoming much less so."-Lawrence Lessig
"Ever wanted an easy-to-configure, whole-house, internet-accessible, Linux-based VOIP PBX with video, PVR, firewall/router, security system, MP3 player, file server, personal web server, home automation (lights, thermostat) controller?"
:)
Yes, it's called Windows XP
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Ever wanted an easy-to-configure, whole-house, internet-accessible, Linux-based VOIP PBX with video, PVR, firewall/router, security system, MP3 player, file server, personal web server, home automation (lights, thermostat) controller?
No.
Not for $15,000 anyway.
The short answer would be "No".
The longer answer would be "No, but I'll have some of whatever you're smoking/drinking/injecting/snorting".
The sympathetic answer would be "No, and I can recommend a very good psychiatrist if you continue to use the terms 'MP3 Player' and $15,000 in the same sentence."
But I think the most accurate answer would be "BWAAAA HAAA HAAA HAAA HAAA HAAA oh jeez *wipes eyes* HAHHHAAAA *snif*".
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when the site gets /.ed, do their lights turn off? Maybe it calls their upstream provider and asks for more bandwidth, automatically?
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...they want their 'priced for the idiot dot-com paper millionaire' gadget back.
From website: Pluto will protect your home and family, entertain you, save you time, and change your life. Better buy a dog, if you want those things. A whole lot cheaper. You have to stand some occasional drooling, 'course. But hey! nothing new for a geek, who just got word they're making a crossover between LOTR and star Wars! "Frodo, I'm your father!" ----Got Carried away. Excuse me.
Its Linux, it has to be free.
Problem I see is, the demographically ideal purchaser?
never, ever leaves the house
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
"An intruder as been detected. Linux kernel must be recompiled for alarm to go off. [ok]"
So what you are saying is: Thanks to Tivo, you haven't been introduced to new shows that you might like. And now that you're tired of watching repeats of shows you once liked, you are quitting TV completely.
I think the best argument for Tivo is you have the magic ability to actually catch interesting things at odd times, so you can be social at normal times and actually having something to talk about, what you watched on tv.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
A car? Pht!!! Why would you ever want to leave?
~Chris Hammond
- Alarm System: 2k
- Phone System: 1k
- Home Automation: 2k
- Entertainment: 5k
- Personal Computer: 10k
- Everything Running Linux: Priceless
Forgive me!Never underestimate the dark side of the Source
Can you get James Bond? (Pierce Brosnon, not George Lazenby)
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
"Ever wanted an easy-to-configure, whole-house, internet-accessible, Linux-based VOIP PBX with video, PVR, firewall/router, security system, MP3 player, file server, personal web server, home automation (lights, thermostat) controller? I just came across the Pluto which claims to do all of this (and more, of course!). It'll set you back $15,000 if you're living in a small bachelor pad, but you didn't need that car anyway, did you?"
I assume you get the small bachelor pad thrown in for free? Might be worth it then,.
Me: (arriving home from some LAN party) Pluto, open the Garage door.
Pluto: I'm afraid I can't to that, Dave.
Me: Dave? OPEN the GARAGE DOOR PLUTO.
I'm afraid that this conversation can serve no purpose. Goodbye. (At that moment, Pluto connects to the computer in my car and drives me somewhere to somewhere near Texas...
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
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Step 1: Discover IP address of the unit(s) :P)
Step 2: Post bogus story to slashdot about MS releasing all code under GPL so everyone will look.
Step 3: Make sure to have the link in the bogus story to point to Pluto.
Step 4: Hope that the folk in charge put up the story without reading it. (50/50 chance
Step 5: Prepare black mask and bag and hope that slashdot knocks Pluto off the face of the earth.
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
One hack to rule them all?
... sorry, couldn't resist ...
Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
I got tivo four years ago and instantly fell deeply in love with it. That love continues to this day, but has changed form. About a year ago, I realized that my giddy passion had given way to serenity,
Is your wife jealous of the Tivo now? Is a divorce in the works? All men are the same. geez.
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address