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Peter Seebach Pokes Around His TiVo

Posted by timothy on from the loosely-connected-scripts dept.

Warrior points out Peter Seebach's look into his Series 2 TiVo, writing "There are a lot of sites about 'hacking' the TiVo, to do this to it and that to it (and there's always the other thing too). After all, half the fun of owning something that runs Linux is to make it do something more (or different) than it was intended to do. But most of us only need so many Web servers (off the top of my head, I think I have 10 or 15 Web servers in my house already, including the embedded systems)."

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  1. I give it 25 minutes max... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Until someone senior at IBM notices and has it pulled down. Interesting to see some of the people at IBM as real people though with a real interest in what they do.

    1. Re:I give it 25 minutes max... by seebs · · Score: 2, Interesting

      For the record, as the article says, I'm a freelancer, not an IBM employee.

      That said, the editorial process at dW is not trivial or careless, and I'm pretty sure IBM will keep the article as is.

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  2. Why not run a web server on Tivo??? by Em+Ellel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unlike most linux appliance devices, there is aactually a LOT of usefull things that can be done by rinning a web server on Tivo - like remote scheduling/control of the device for one.

    -Em

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  3. In case it comes down. by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 1, Interesting


    http://alderflats.com/slashdot_mirrors/tivo/

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