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Second Generation Homebrew PVR Devices

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the second generation of homebrew PVRs is on its way. Asus recently released their Digimatrix barebones PC which combines a lot of features in a very slim and stylish box. DVD/CD-R, WiFi, HDTV tuner, FM Tuner, memory card reader etc. All for ~$400. The reviews look good, except that the software that comes with it doesn't look all that great... of course this may not be a problem because there has already been significant effort in getting linux to run on it and most features are working. Combine MythTV with this device and you have an almost perfect PVR? I wonder what other hardware companies have in store for the homebrew PVR market?"

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frost Pist.

  2. THE BEATLES WERE USED TO DESTROY MANKIND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (The Five Judges)
    (Judge T., Judge B., Judge S., Judge M. and Judge K.)

    VERDICT
    -------


    The Rock revolution happened in the Sixties (6, number of the Beast). It came from Liverpool, that was the port base to the Titanic, destroyed by God because of the arrogant insult of captain Smith (also from Liverpool): "Not even God can sink my ship" (not only the captain, but also the rest of the crew and even the orchestra playing at the Titanic were from Liverpool). The Rock revolution came from the nation that allows a church to be changed to a pub or to a dance room or to a recording studio full of drug addicts, homosexuals and lunatics (as that of George Martin, ally of the Beatles).
    It came from the nation whose king Enrique VIII adulterated the Bible so that divorce could be allowed and in this way be able to give loose rein to the many divorces from his wives and subsequent murdering of the same ones and to whom God provided a wife with six fingers as abomination (Anne Boleyn)...once again 6, number of the Beast....
    It is interesting to observe that this nation is nicknamed "the Devil's Island". As the epithet of the government of Satan on that nation, the center of London, the so well-known Piccadilly Circus, takes it's name from an old brothel (the "Piccadilla House" which means "The House of Sin"), disappeared nowadays.

    The antichrist John Lennon, one of the Devil's main puppets to destroy family, social and moral values and to begin the disintegration of mankind, did hit Stuart Sutcliffe (the first bass player of the Beatles) in the head with a club repeatedly in Hamburg. Some months later Sutcliffe died from brain haemorrhage because of John Lennon's bruises. John Lennon entered stardom being a murderer.
    The same demons that made captain Smith say "Not even God can sink my ship" spoke from antichrist John Lennon (from Liverpool, base port to the Titanic) saying: "Christianity is on the go. It will vanish and shrink. We are more popular than Jesus and Pope"....That was the day that GOD'S CURSE fell upon the world of Rock.
    One week after that declaration, ONLY ONE WEEK LATER, Brian Epstein, forger of the Beatle farce, died from an overdose. From then on, the Beatles began to get involved in false religions and to preach them to the world.
    John Lennon's divorce followed, as well as his entering the world of black magic, as deeply as to buy the apartment. where the "Rosemary's baby" had been filmed, previous property of Roman Polansky, and in that same apartment John Lennon had a room upholstered with black silk where he used to do his black magic operations.
    Came the disintegration of the Beatles' minds with LSD which has caused, among others, schizophrenic lyrics such as "I am the Walrus" and incoherent schizophrenic musical expositions like "Revolution number 9".
    At the same time, the devil acted through his other main puppets with "Sympathy for the devil" that was when the pact of the Rolling Stones with Satan took the life of the founder of the group, the guitarist Brian Jones (who refused to be a puppet of the devil), murdered by people sent by Mick Jagger, another assassin.
    Antichrist John Lennon followed the Devil's strategy writing lyrics such as "God is a concept by which we measure our pain...I don't believe in Jesus, etc., etc.," (God) and "and no religions too..." (Imagine).
    Antichrist John Lennon wanted to compete with Jesus Christ, and so he grew a beard and started to make a bogus role of Christ together with Yoko Ono at the Amsterdam Hilton hotel proclaiming "Peace", being then when he was visited by the Canadian journalist who ridiculized and admonished him wanting to know about what Lennon meant when he wrote in the lyrics of "The ballad of John and Yoko": "the way things are going, they're going to crucify me...",
    The CURSE OF GOD upon John Lennon carried on with all type of miseries and distresses which made Lennon give the interview to the "Rolling Stone" magazine (today condensed in the "Lennon remembers" book) where

  3. What motto did Jack In The box use after the Ecoli by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    scandal? we're cooking the shit out of our burgers!

  4. My grandfather is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He lay in his deathbed only a couple of dozen heartbeats away from realizing his final reward. As the priest came in and performed the last rites there was a heavenly odor of fudge brownies coming from the kitchen.
    My grandfather's eyes fluttered open as he drew what would have been his final breath. The heavenly scent filled his nostrils and soon his body was filled with renewed vigor. He sat up, swung his feet over the bed and waddled into the kitchen.
    His beloved wife of thirty years was cutting the brownies on the kitchen counter. As he reached over to have a taste she smacked his hand, "No, they're for the wake!"

  5. YOU FAIL IT ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wow you suck

  6. Speaking of PVRs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Today, I was lifting an old carpet, as we have a damp problem. Underneath there were hundreds of slugs and worms. My wife and I picked up about 40 slugs and put them in a pair of my wife's panties. I then put the panties on. The feeling was amazing. I got a huge erection and I could feel them sliding over my glans, and round my balls. Eventually I could feel one going up my bum. I knew I would come soon, so I let my wife tie me up, with my hands and feet speadeagled and attached to some furniture. She then took the panties down and about 15 of the slugs were crawling over my cock and balls. I came, spurting out loads of cum all over the poor things, but still couldn't move. My wife then took the other slugs out of the panties and placed them on my cock. She was careful to put some of them right on the opening of my cock, which was now covered in a mixture of sperm and glistening goo from the slugs. She opened up my arse and tried to put one in there too. I got hard again quite quickly as I thought of these slimy little things crawling over me. I imagined them biting me. One seemed to be trying to enter my uretha and this caused me to come again.
    That was 4 hurs ago. My cock is now very itchy, but I am about to give them another "feed".

    1. Re:Speaking of PVRs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      best new troll i've seen in a while. congrats sir.

  7. Actually.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Today, I was lifting an old carpet, as we have a damp problem. Underneath there were hundreds of slugs and worms. My wife and I picked up about 40 slugs and put them in a pair of my wife's panties. I then put the panties on. The feeling was amazing. I got a huge erection and I could feel them sliding over my glans, and round my balls. Eventually I could feel one going up my bum. I knew I would come soon, so I let my wife tie me up, with my hands and feet speadeagled and attached to some furniture. She then took the panties down and about 15 of the slugs were crawling over my cock and balls. I came, spurting out loads of cum all over the poor things, but still couldn't move. My wife then took the other slugs out of the panties and placed them on my cock. She was careful to put some of them right on the opening of my cock, which was now covered in a mixture of sperm and glistening goo from the slugs. She opened up my arse and tried to put one in there too. I got hard again quite quickly as I thought of these slimy little things crawling over me. I imagined them biting me. One seemed to be trying to enter my uretha and this caused me to come again.
    That was 4 hurs ago. My cock is now very itchy, but I am about to give them another "feed"

  8. Honestly........ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Today, I was lifting an old carpet, as we have a damp problem. Underneath there were hundreds of slugs and worms. My wife and I picked up about 40 slugs and put them in a pair of my wife's panties. I then put the panties on. The feeling was amazing. I got a huge erection and I could feel them sliding over my glans, and round my balls. Eventually I could feel one going up my bum. I knew I would come soon, so I let my wife tie me up, with my hands and feet speadeagled and attached to some furniture. She then took the panties down and about 15 of the slugs were crawling over my cock and balls. I came, spurting out loads of cum all over the poor things, but still couldn't move. My wife then took the other slugs out of the panties and placed them on my cock. She was careful to put some of them right on the opening of my cock, which was now covered in a mixture of sperm and glistening goo from the slugs. She opened up my arse and tried to put one in there too. I got hard again quite quickly as I thought of these slimy little things crawling over me. I imagined them biting me. One seemed to be trying to enter my uretha and this caused me to come again.
    That was 4 hurs ago. My cock is now very itchy, but I am about to give them another"feed".

  9. ahh the memories by segment · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    PVC just isn't put to good use anymore. You did say PVC right?

    1. Re:ahh the memories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (droooool)

      that makes me wish i hadnt stopped being a goth.

  10. The Daily Show by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More like the Gayly show. Hardball played a clip of Jon Stuart. What a fag. I could feel the AIDS seeping thru the cable. That fag should be the first to be rounded up for the island.

  11. Who gives a shit about Ceren? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is the hottest geek girl ever

  12. And now, my semi-serious gripe... by Perdition · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Look at the back of that thing! Look at the back of any computer and you'll sense my rage welling within you. Somebody at SuperPCConnectocorp, inc. is ruining it for all of us! Shouldn't it be SUSB (sometimes universal serial bus)? If there's one thing I'm looking for in the cutting edge of computer technology, it's the truly universal plug for everything. I'd love to look on the back of a PC and see a neat row of identical (yet clearly labeled) ports. I mean, I understand how whiny and insignificant this sounds, but Lordy, think of the possibilities, man! I don't suggest chucking the baby with the bathwater, but at least give the baby a stern looking-over.

    --
    Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
  13. A tale of homosexuality and anal discontent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ***Here are some of the imdb.com reviews for "Gay Niggers From Outer Space":

    Summary: The best homosexual racial minority sci-fi film ever.

    "Morten Lindbergs classic cult short, Gay Niggers From Outer Space is one of
    the first short films to really stick to what the title suggests. From the
    time the first gay nigger walked onto the screen up until the final intense
    climax with the Tourette's Syndrome Kingdom in Outer Space, it's filled with
    dark comedy, action and plenty of suspense. "

    "Gay Niggers from Outer Space is a masterpiece of a film. No other film
    portraits emotions as majestically and stunningly since The Legend of Nigger
    Charley and Home Alone II. With a cast of all-star African niggers and a
    director with Kubrick potential, it is no wonder that Gay Niggers from Outer
    Space is marked the greatest film of all time."

    "From the very first scene where Gay Nigger Harris throws up on his own face
    and commits suicide, to the climactic scene where Nigger Ralph Nader and
    Nigger Humphrey Bogart fight over the last hashbrown and pick cotton til
    their noses bleed, Gay Niggers from Outer Space is the most magical
    portrayal of gay niggers open to the public."

    ***However, no mention is made of the hazadous lifestyle of gay niggers,
    so the following is an attempt to explain those hazards in layman's terms:

    Despite cries to the contrary in the media, AIDS is still primarily a gay
    and black disease. The media loves to report the "growing epidemic" among
    whites, when in fact the rate of infection among heterosexual whites is
    dropping off significantly year by year. The media though, reports only the
    TOTAL current infection rate, not the RELATIVE. So while there are more
    cases each year, the RATE of infection is dropping quickly. Except for the
    gay/nigger communities, where it's skyrocketing.

    Why does AIDS seem to target gays and niggers so much more so than whites
    and straights? Anal sex. The anus was not designed to accommodate vigorous
    penetration as occurs in anal sex. Unlike the vagina, the anus has very
    delicate membranes, which damage easily. Couple that with the fact that
    sperm contains immune system suppressing chemicals. That's why the sperm is
    not treated as a foreign protein in the vagina...because of the immune
    suppressing effects of the sperm cells. Without this effect, pregnancy
    could not occur, as the sperm would be attacked as a foreign protein.

    In the anus, sperm has the same immune suppressing effect. During anal sex,
    the anal wall is torn and open lesions form. Because there is little if any
    sensory nerve endings in the anus, this damage often goes unnoticed. The
    sperm then induce their immune suppressing effect, and the stage is set.
    Various bacteria both beneficial and infectious dwell in the colon, as well
    as viral matter. When the anus is ripped open, exposing the blood to the
    immune suppressing chemicals in the sperm, and the viral matter passed
    along with it, infection is virtually assured.

    ***So does the skyrocketing rate of AIDS infection mean that there are
    skyrocketing rates of gay niggers???

    ***Not exactly, because most White people don't realize that a large
    percentage of nigger males are bisexual. It's a great irony considering all
    of their macho posturing and affectations. They tend to admire the male
    physique, and when no women are present, they will hip-hop dance with each
    other. Any port in a storm will do, because da' brotha's just gots ta
    have it!!! Then they pass along the virus to their wives, girlfriends, and
    family members.

    ***Here is a story about this phenomenon from "The Village Voice":

    http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0123/wright.p hp

    And for the Toronto Gay Niggers:

    http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2001-08-16/news _s tory_p.html

    1. Re:A tale of homosexuality and anal discontent by ckathens · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wtf is this? Troll!

  14. Racist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do you have something against blacks or gays?

    f*cking racist homophobe

  15. home brew that's good for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic