This is covered in insane detail in the tivoweb docs. You have three options:
Set up apache as a reverse proxy and put some authentication on the proxy machine.
If that is not acceptible, use ssh port forwarding to get the job done.
If none of these is acceptible, then use some sort of VPN solution to attach to your home network from outside.
Be realistic, though, you don't double smartcard voice recognized palm scanned passphrase authentication and uncrackable in a trillion years triple supercrypto to do the equivalent of program your vcr from the office. Reverse proxy and an.htaccess file will do you fine.
Most OS's will use Int13 and access the disk through the bios if they are forced to (some, it's pretty hard to get to do).. Obviously the performance of the drive using this method is absolutely horrible, but it does work. Both Linux and Win2K (not sure about earlier versions of NT or 9x) are capable of it. You may be able to find out how to do it by googling a little bit -- sorry that I don't know off the top of my head how to tell you to do it. -- it's a kernel configuration thing in linux IIRC..
Just lock it anyway -- they will cut the lock off if they need to search it and then ziptie it afterwards. It's totally bogus, but at least you know when it's been gone through.
The other alternative is that if you ask they will give you zip ties to close the bag. If they search it, they'll change the color of the zip tie.
I have found that any remote from a creative-branded product (such as the remote that comes with the live/audigy/audigy2 or the remote that comes with creative speakers) can be decoded by the livedrive ir hardware (probably they use all the same remote control ic's across the board to save money.
I also noticed that it could correctly decode the remote that came with my BetaBrite (LED Sign), which as fortune would have it, contains a full alphabet with punctuation and everything! It might work with remotes from other Adaptive Alpha-family LED signs.
The live drive IR device is not a general purpose IR reciever. It works only with certain remotes, and it sends a decoded remote code out over the MIDI bus. If you use a recent version of the emu10k1 driver (as of 2.4.18 the capability is in the kernel driver) you can enable the live drive IR's IR port with a switch in emu-tools. IR messages come out of/dev/midi as general purpose MIDI message frames where they can be decoded.
Again, this does not work with LIRC. I tried to add some support for it once, but didn't really get very far. I don't think that LIRC really has the code internals to deal with this sort of hardware. It'd be easier to write an app that decoded the IR codes from/dev/midi and listened on lirc's socket and port (thus emulating lirc and allowing any app that was designed to work with lirc work with the live drive ir)
Note that this almost certainly has its own internal CPU for this as the gba's internal CPU is not up to task - especially with the bitmapped (framebuffer) modes that a java interpreter would demand. Still, a very neat application.
As close to java as you can get on the gba? There are some waba VM's out there... here is one:
That would be cool, but it's covered elsewhere better than here on/... for instance, newer model BMW's (from about 1995 onward) have all kinds of neat data buses that you can patch into, and they have been almost completely reverse engineered. You can, for instance, use it to build an MP3 player that uses your steering wheel buttons to change/select songs and prints the display onto the dashboard:)
My GF had an old beetle when she was in highschool.. forget which year.. but her dad (a mechanic) had it suped to hell and back and it would do 120 routinely, and probably close to 145-155 top speed.. Course, it had a different speedo in it:)
The text itself may be easy to understand, but it's certainly not easy to read. That site has a nice design and good artwork, but is totally fucking unreadable. The text is basically the same color as the background, and the background is a fucking image. There is no contrast, and the font is very small.
I copied and pasted the first part into a text editor just to check it out, then I bailed on the site because I didn't want to put up with that shit. Then I read of the article as posted in the comments here.
I agree that hardware like this needs beta testers, but this is not a beta test. This is a marketing survey. By the time these people get the units, they will have already been designed and have entered manufacture. Based on the folks feedback, they will change the way they market the units and their target audience to make the most sales. The will; however, not change the product to better suit users unless it's a simple matter of software or other firmware related problem.
The beta test, if it ever happened, was probably conducted months ago by friends and employees of Philips. If they had actual users participating in this program, they'd probably end up very frustrated at the pre-relase quality of the product and give Philips a lot of bad press or something... which brings me to the point of how they select users to test --- it's a fucking sweepstakes! They should just say what they mean "Be one of 50 people to win this unit slightly before it is released!" If they wanted a real beta, they'd probably want to select from canidates that are actually qualified to test it, or try for a good mix of people. Selection at total random for a "beta" program is extremely bogus.
Above is an example licensing agreement for "Music in a Business" -- what you are supposed to pay for music on hold; playing cd's in a break room, etc. For up to 500 employees (for our purpose we are going to license it for a single person).. the fee is a little over a hundred bucks per year. Get licenses from ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC for a couple hundred bucks a year and you're licensed to play almost any domestic recording you want to up to 500 people. The broadcast licenses are a little different and are generally based on revenue. If you don't make any money with your broadcast, they are about as cheap as the above licensing with the added benefit that your name is put on a broadcaster list and record labels will start sending you CD's (especially if you get on the phone with them)
Remember that the music business stays the huge behemoth that it is by shoving things down peoples' throats. If you act like you are a part of the machine, they'll be really friendly with you. Of course, I didn't mention that most of the CD's that you'd get would be candypop singles of Britney Spears and whatnot; but if you're into it, I guess it's maybe worth it.
I always just took them to the record store. They bought them even though they had a nice big "not for resale" label burned into them.. go figure.
Perhaps you should try it. It really is like that. You have to do reporting, auditing, and stuff, too; but you really do get tons of free CD's and license to broadcast nearly everything that you want (except for some independent labels not included in ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC licenses..)
I used to! I ran several Internet radio stations and paid license fees to ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. I downloaded most of the music from Napster because either finding the CD was too difficult or expensive, or the record companies just hadn't sent it to me yet -- (I got about 50 discs per week anyway).. Anyway, then the RIAA got all up in arms and decided to license Internet radio stations differently (read: way more expensively) than a traditional broadcast station, and that sort of killed those in the industry that couldn't afford to wait out the legal battles.
Although technically, "making a digital copy" of something you already own or license by downloading someone else's digital copy has not (afaik) been tested legally and may be outside the terms of "fair use" that everyone is always flaunting about, I believe that radio stations using this service was one of the very few legitimate use of Napster that there ever really was.
I firmly believe that someone could start a membership P2P service where people pay a fee necessary to license about anything they want to listen to for a year and then can download freely from anyone. The fees for small broadcast stations that don't make any money are very reasonable (like $200/yr).. This is the same kind of license that department stores and whatnot have to buy to play CD's in their store. It's very cheap and available to the public. It's kind of funny that my slashdot submissions on it all get rejected (with links directly to the damn fee schedules on the respective licensor sites!) and we have all this bottom of the barrel shit on here constantly.
M16 recoil is amazingly minimal for the round it's shooting. A hell of a lot less than 90lbs, anyway... 90lbs is really a ton for a weapon that size...
Panotools is available for many platforms and compiles and runs fine on linux. The software is a bear to use but is regarded by many to be the best panorama software out there. It works great for me.
The java frontend is even pretty good and works fine on about anything that can run java (and is REALLY fast)... if you're on Windows, though, PTGUI is pretty much the same as the java interface, just faster, and on the mac, PTMac fits the bill for a front end.
Just search the net for panotools to find it; it's everywhere.
Also of note, there is a european answer to GPS called Galileo, but it's really not moving very fast, and won't necessarily be any more accurate for civilian use than GPS is for civilian use.
It's proprietary software, but has proven exceedingly reliable for backing up my entire network onto a tape library. Basically, it's cheap for what it does, and depending on how you use it -- it may be available at no cost.
Have you tried the DVD Player compatibility list? It will let you search for players that support whatever type of media and formats you want. I don't know how you could have checked "a ton of sites" and missed this.
It's comforting to hear about other users who have "False Positives" and "False Negatives" files for their spam filters. I only get about half of the spam you do, but I don't have any @domain.tld catchall addresses either... (Though I do use tagging)
Slashdot Mirror
Haha; You fool! TiVo already knows you're gay!
This is covered in insane detail in the tivoweb docs. You have three options:
.htaccess file will do you fine.
Set up apache as a reverse proxy and put some authentication on the proxy machine.
If that is not acceptible, use ssh port forwarding to get the job done.
If none of these is acceptible, then use some sort of VPN solution to attach to your home network from outside.
Be realistic, though, you don't double smartcard voice recognized palm scanned passphrase authentication and uncrackable in a trillion years triple supercrypto to do the equivalent of program your vcr from the office. Reverse proxy and an
~GoRK
Most OS's will use Int13 and access the disk through the bios if they are forced to (some, it's pretty hard to get to do).. Obviously the performance of the drive using this method is absolutely horrible, but it does work. Both Linux and Win2K (not sure about earlier versions of NT or 9x) are capable of it. You may be able to find out how to do it by googling a little bit -- sorry that I don't know off the top of my head how to tell you to do it. -- it's a kernel configuration thing in linux IIRC..
~GoRK
Just lock it anyway -- they will cut the lock off if they need to search it and then ziptie it afterwards. It's totally bogus, but at least you know when it's been gone through.
The other alternative is that if you ask they will give you zip ties to close the bag. If they search it, they'll change the color of the zip tie.
~GoRK
I have found that any remote from a creative-branded product (such as the remote that comes with the live/audigy/audigy2 or the remote that comes with creative speakers) can be decoded by the livedrive ir hardware (probably they use all the same remote control ic's across the board to save money.
I also noticed that it could correctly decode the remote that came with my BetaBrite (LED Sign), which as fortune would have it, contains a full alphabet with punctuation and everything! It might work with remotes from other Adaptive Alpha-family LED signs.
~GoRK
The live drive IR device is not a general purpose IR reciever. It works only with certain remotes, and it sends a decoded remote code out over the MIDI bus. If you use a recent version of the emu10k1 driver (as of 2.4.18 the capability is in the kernel driver) you can enable the live drive IR's IR port with a switch in emu-tools. IR messages come out of /dev/midi as general purpose MIDI message frames where they can be decoded.
/dev/midi and listened on lirc's socket and port (thus emulating lirc and allowing any app that was designed to work with lirc work with the live drive ir)
Again, this does not work with LIRC. I tried to add some support for it once, but didn't really get very far. I don't think that LIRC really has the code internals to deal with this sort of hardware. It'd be easier to write an app that decoded the IR codes from
~GoRK
iCommune !?! Is this just one more program in the iCult suite?!
Note that this almost certainly has its own internal CPU for this as the gba's internal CPU is not up to task - especially with the bitmapped (framebuffer) modes that a java interpreter would demand. Still, a very neat application.
As close to java as you can get on the gba? There are some waba VM's out there... here is one:
http://www.badpint.org/jaysos/
That would be cool, but it's covered elsewhere better than here on /. .. for instance, newer model BMW's (from about 1995 onward) have all kinds of neat data buses that you can patch into, and they have been almost completely reverse engineered. You can, for instance, use it to build an MP3 player that uses your steering wheel buttons to change/select songs and prints the display onto the dashboard :)
My GF had an old beetle when she was in highschool.. forget which year.. but her dad (a mechanic) had it suped to hell and back and it would do 120 routinely, and probably close to 145-155 top speed.. Course, it had a different speedo in it :)
The text itself may be easy to understand, but it's certainly not easy to read. That site has a nice design and good artwork, but is totally fucking unreadable. The text is basically the same color as the background, and the background is a fucking image. There is no contrast, and the font is very small.
I copied and pasted the first part into a text editor just to check it out, then I bailed on the site because I didn't want to put up with that shit. Then I read of the article as posted in the comments here.
Pretty good article; too bad nobody can see it!
When you see Windows Media Player downloadable for x86 Linux with the X Window System -- then it's news
Interesting that it wasn't much of a news item back in 1997 when they did exactly this with Windows Media Player 1.0...
I agree that hardware like this needs beta testers, but this is not a beta test. This is a marketing survey. By the time these people get the units, they will have already been designed and have entered manufacture. Based on the folks feedback, they will change the way they market the units and their target audience to make the most sales. The will; however, not change the product to better suit users unless it's a simple matter of software or other firmware related problem.
The beta test, if it ever happened, was probably conducted months ago by friends and employees of Philips. If they had actual users participating in this program, they'd probably end up very frustrated at the pre-relase quality of the product and give Philips a lot of bad press or something... which brings me to the point of how they select users to test --- it's a fucking sweepstakes! They should just say what they mean "Be one of 50 people to win this unit slightly before it is released!" If they wanted a real beta, they'd probably want to select from canidates that are actually qualified to test it, or try for a good mix of people. Selection at total random for a "beta" program is extremely bogus.
~GoRK
OK, I found some current linkage:
.. the fee is a little over a hundred bucks per year. Get licenses from ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC for a couple hundred bucks a year and you're licensed to play almost any domestic recording you want to up to 500 people. The broadcast licenses are a little different and are generally based on revenue. If you don't make any money with your broadcast, they are about as cheap as the above licensing with the added benefit that your name is put on a broadcaster list and record labels will start sending you CD's (especially if you get on the phone with them)
http://www.sesac.com/pdf/music_2003.pdf
Above is an example licensing agreement for "Music in a Business" -- what you are supposed to pay for music on hold; playing cd's in a break room, etc. For up to 500 employees (for our purpose we are going to license it for a single person)
Remember that the music business stays the huge behemoth that it is by shoving things down peoples' throats. If you act like you are a part of the machine, they'll be really friendly with you. Of course, I didn't mention that most of the CD's that you'd get would be candypop singles of Britney Spears and whatnot; but if you're into it, I guess it's maybe worth it.
I always just took them to the record store. They bought them even though they had a nice big "not for resale" label burned into them.. go figure.
~GoRK
Perhaps you should try it. It really is like that. You have to do reporting, auditing, and stuff, too; but you really do get tons of free CD's and license to broadcast nearly everything that you want (except for some independent labels not included in ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC licenses..)
I used to! I ran several Internet radio stations and paid license fees to ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. I downloaded most of the music from Napster because either finding the CD was too difficult or expensive, or the record companies just hadn't sent it to me yet -- (I got about 50 discs per week anyway) .. Anyway, then the RIAA got all up in arms and decided to license Internet radio stations differently (read: way more expensively) than a traditional broadcast station, and that sort of killed those in the industry that couldn't afford to wait out the legal battles.
Although technically, "making a digital copy" of something you already own or license by downloading someone else's digital copy has not (afaik) been tested legally and may be outside the terms of "fair use" that everyone is always flaunting about, I believe that radio stations using this service was one of the very few legitimate use of Napster that there ever really was.
I firmly believe that someone could start a membership P2P service where people pay a fee necessary to license about anything they want to listen to for a year and then can download freely from anyone. The fees for small broadcast stations that don't make any money are very reasonable (like $200/yr).. This is the same kind of license that department stores and whatnot have to buy to play CD's in their store. It's very cheap and available to the public. It's kind of funny that my slashdot submissions on it all get rejected (with links directly to the damn fee schedules on the respective licensor sites!) and we have all this bottom of the barrel shit on here constantly.
~GoRK
M16 recoil is amazingly minimal for the round it's shooting. A hell of a lot less than 90lbs, anyway... 90lbs is really a ton for a weapon that size...
Panotools is available for many platforms and compiles and runs fine on linux. The software is a bear to use but is regarded by many to be the best panorama software out there. It works great for me.
The java frontend is even pretty good and works fine on about anything that can run java (and is REALLY fast)... if you're on Windows, though, PTGUI is pretty much the same as the java interface, just faster, and on the mac, PTMac fits the bill for a front end.
Just search the net for panotools to find it; it's everywhere.
~GoRK
Ooh, great. Now I can have a technicolor newspaper. Big whoop. Let's see it in pill form: then I will be impressed!!!
~GoRK
(PS: Mods, this is an incredibly deep joke. Please moderate accordingly.)
Also of note, there is a european answer to GPS called Galileo, but it's really not moving very fast, and won't necessarily be any more accurate for civilian use than GPS is for civilian use.
I second the Arkeia vote!
It's proprietary software, but has proven exceedingly reliable for backing up my entire network onto a tape library. Basically, it's cheap for what it does, and depending on how you use it -- it may be available at no cost.
~GoRK
That's what the comments on that site are for. You did go there, didn't you?
~GoRK
Have you tried the DVD Player compatibility list? It will let you search for players that support whatever type of media and formats you want. I don't know how you could have checked "a ton of sites" and missed this.
Anyway, go Here.
~GoRK
It's comforting to hear about other users who have "False Positives" and "False Negatives" files for their spam filters. I only get about half of the spam you do, but I don't have any @domain.tld catchall addresses either... (Though I do use tagging)
~GoRK
Thanks :) I am thinking of maybe base-64'ing it instead, but /. probably breaks earlier than that would work also.
~GoRK