It's not quite as seamless, but if you're using Media Center, you can install transcode360 on your MCE PC and select 'transcode' from the more menu when browsing videos from the device. Works great for me, apart from the few extra remote presses to play the clip.
Right now it goes to sendmail. I assume that there will be a 3.1 release soon so that will be the next without sendmail.
The 3.x branch is a stable release branch; sendmail was removed from HEAD. You should see the first version of NetBSD without sendmail in base along with the 4.0 release.
Wow - didn't know that. Here in Nova Scotia, they've been behaving respectably (at least with broadband, can't speak for any of their other services). Sorry to hear that. Do you have an alternative over there?
Rogers and Aliant is it. The final nail in the coffin for me with Aliant was when I was away on business for a few weeks and they decided to start filtering inbound SMTP traffic. I called and asked about it and they claimed they weren't doing any filtering. When I replied with tcpdump output proving my case, they forwarded me to their abuse department. A few weeks without mail, so I immediately switched to Rogers when I got back.
Not only do I have a faster service (5Mbit with Rogers at the time, when Aliant was offering 2 or 3Mbit IIRC), but they only filter outbound SMTP (not a problem), I have a relatively "static" IP address, and I don't have to deal with the hassles of PPPoE.
Also, bundling our cell phones, television, and internet is a huge win. The Vibe Vision service was shut down, and reborn as Aliant TV some years later.. but it hasn't been rolled out in any areas other than Nova Scotia.
By the way, In the late 90s, things were different. Fundy Cable (who was purchased by Shaw, then by Rogers) had a one-way cablemodem. NBTel (part of Aliant) was trialing 10Mbit/10Mbit HFC service in my neighbourhood. For $39.95/month! It was incredible. The ride lasted a few years before they sent out an email about a "service upgrade", which was going to be $2/more per month, and mandatory. The "upgrade", of course, was the switch to 1.5Mbit ADSL with PPPoE.
STAY AWAY from it [Eastlink] and switch to the good guys in my area [Aliant].
I don't want to start a flamewar, but Aliant's traffic shaping (in New Brunswick, anyway) policies are what made me drop all of their services, including phone services, in favour of Rogers.
The irony is that Motorola lots its IPTV skills when it closed down its world leading Stream Master project a couple of years ago to save money after the dot-com crash.
The Streamaster 5000 was a very nice piece of hardware indeed. After that project was shut down we were stuck with Acorn/Pace set-top boxes, which, although we had them running quite well, would have been no match for the PPC/Nuon combination in the Streamaster. Years ahead of its time.
Disclaimer: I work at (what used to be) one of the original IPTV middleware companies.
Having seen some Kreatel hardware, I can say that it's pretty cool, but certainly not unique. Amino makes the smallest Linux-based IPTV set-top box that I have ever seen. Their AmiNET110 is incredibly small. IIRC the only chip inside is an IBM system-on-a-chip (405GP, for those who care); not much else.
Anyway, the Kreatel hardware I've dealt with is huge in comparison. Both very cool products.
I sell my TV and my Tivo and read books and play video games instead
You're going to have to stop playing video games soon. The latest from EA, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, shoves Cingular ads down your throat (ie "You have received a text message from your rival on your Cingular Wireless mobile phone!"). I'm sure this isn't a new thing (I usually stick to the Mario titles), but it was quite disturbing.
People will take these controller around with them instead of just leaving them at home, the controller itself will be a status symbol.
I forget where it was, and I can't seem to find it, but ISTR Nintendo mentioning at one point something along the lines of being "similar to the iPod". I have to agree; I think the GP is on to something!
When I first read the headline I thought to myself.. how do you save your game?
The article quickly answered my question: As pictured below, the game will also allow you to save your settings and standings via an interchangeable card that can be used on other machines.
Anyone have any idea if these things are a standard format (SD, CF, USB memory, etc) or is it something proprietary to Tatio?
That's hilarious. A cow orker was telling me today about one of the local EB Games stores in the city. Rumour has it that they had received 18 consoles, and at the end of the first day they still had 13 left!
Put a smile on my face when I heard the news this morning; not that I plan on buying one, but it appears that at least in this area, either people didn't buy the hype or we're completely bass-ackwords:)
Command line apps and X Windows apps are one thing... Re-creating the Cocoa/Aqua API (a la Wine for Winodws apps) is quite another. How long have the Wine folks been trying to perfect their product? Sure they've had much success over the last.. I don't eight years... and still 75%? of all Windows apps will not run without some sort of problem.
NetBSD's COMPAT_ options are nothing like Wine. Not sure if it was clear on manu's web site, but the idea is that you simply drop your binaries into a compatibility tree (/emul/darwin/ in this case), and your applications will run.
A good example of this is COMPAT_LINUX -- we didn't re-implement glibc, we simply drop something that looks similar to a standard Linux install into/emul/linux/ and we can seamlessly run Linux binaries alongside the native system binaries.
This works the same for COMPAT_SUNOS, COMPAT_SVR4, COMPAT_FREEBSD, COMPAT_IRIX, etc. The COMPAT_DARWIN support is to the point now where we can take an XDarwin binary from an existing OS X system and run it on any machine with a compatible CPU. The kernel takes care of emulating IOKit and friends. It's only a matter of time before the rest of the work is done to make the Quartz server run, and at that point, you should be able to launch any OS X application provided that you have all of the necessary dependencies in your/emul/darwin tree.
I also don't think you'll see the same number of motivated developers and corporate interest (CodeWeavers) to fuel such a project. I may be wrong about that but some how I think the drive to run Windows apps on Linux/*BSD is much greater than that of running Mac apps on anything.
Agreed. Apart from Safari and Mail, there's not much on here that comes to mind that I would really want to run on a typical home desktop.
Yes, I know the beauty of Mac apps, but the dedicated will just by a mini-Mac rather than spend hours of coding to run it on Linux/BSD. There is a certain mentality that says I would rather fork over my first-born child rather than run MS Windows that exists in the open source community. This same sentiment isn't really felt against the Macintosh. So, while I'm sure it will happen eventually, running Mac Apps like Photoshop under Linux/*BSD is still years away.
See my comment above about how COMPAT_DARWIN works. I really don't think it's that far off -- and the beauty of it, is that hopefully someday you will be able to run NetBSD on your typical Dell/HP/home-built PC, launch the Quartz windowing system, and run the OS X GUI on top of it.
I own a Powerbook, and I love OS X. I don't love it for Darwin though -- it's nothing special to me. I'd be just as content with my system if I was running on top of a NetBSD kernel, or for that matter, an NT kernel.
As another poster said, Apple legal certainly won't be very happy with this;)
This reporter doesn't seem to understand that even if the Apple Intel Macs run Windows OS, you still will not be able to run Macintosh apps on Windows XP/Longhorn.
Uhm, why not? NetBSD has a COMPAT_DARWIN option that has already progressed far enough to run command-line OS X applications as well as XDarwin on any PowerPC machine. I will expect this work to be ported to the i386 and x86_64 platforms once OS X86 is released. I'll be quite excited when I can run the iLife suite of applications on my NetBSD workstations!
I think I understand why the PS3 design doesn't sit well with me. They've designed the damn thing so it has to sit on the top of any under TV equipment. There's going to be no stacking this baby under the DVD, AMP and Decoder box.
With the heat that this thing will probably produce, it might be a conscious decision on Sony's part to design it in a way so nobody can stack objects on top of it.
Having said that, it sure would be nice if all of these systems were stackable -- I've got a handful of systems neat my TV (GCN, XBox, PS2, SNES) as well as a VCR, DVD player, and a few digital cable boxes. There's no hope of stacking any of these, as they're all radically different shapes and sizes.
A lot of people don't have an extra computer lying around either. That doesn't mean nobody should sugest ideas for those of us who do.
I think you need to re-read my original post. The point was, to build a PVR, you need x, y, z. If you already own x and y, good! Makes the job much easier.
We were, however, comparing the benefits of building a Windows PVR using commercial software with a Linux PVR using free software. The cost of the Windows license is a factor. Just because I already own a capture card doesn't mean that it won't be a factor for someone else.
You might as well post an article titled "How to build a PVR for free! [1]", and in small text at the bottom of the page have a footnote:
[1]: Free assumes that you have a spare 2GHz PC, Windows license that can be transferred to this PC, a video capture card, capture hardware, analog cable service, a remote control, etc.
And before you go off and say "Well, why not mention the cost of a PC?", we're talking about the differences between a Linux PVR and a Windows PVR. The PC is common to the two (so is the capture card, the only relevance it has to the conversation is that it was bundled with the PVR software).
Hope this helps. I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings, rather I was pointing out that in a comparison of a Windows and Linux PVR, there are more factors than just the cost of the capture card and PVR software. Already having some pieces of the puzzle is nice, but it's not an option for all of us. That's all I was trying to say.
Had you read the article, you would have learned that he had an "extra" license for Win 2000, and that is what he used. He mentioned upgrading to XP, but said that he didn't.
The article summary suggests that this is a possibility for others who are looking to build a personal video recorder. Had you read the Slashdot summary of the article:
If you have an old computer that had been laying around for a while and are ready to spend a bit on hardware to make into a Digital Video Recorder, this article from Make magazine contains a step-by-step guide on building one.
Sorry, we don't all have "extra" Windows licenses lying around.
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NetBSD does not support CPUs without a memory management unit.
It's not quite as seamless, but if you're using Media Center, you can install transcode360 on your MCE PC and select 'transcode' from the more menu when browsing videos from the device. Works great for me, apart from the few extra remote presses to play the clip.
Right now it goes to sendmail. I assume that there will be a 3.1 release soon so that will be the next without sendmail.
The 3.x branch is a stable release branch; sendmail was removed from HEAD. You should see the first version of NetBSD without sendmail in base along with the 4.0 release.
On a default NetBSD installation where does the cron output go?
Postfix has been in the tree for a while, and will now be the default MTA.
Wow - didn't know that. Here in Nova Scotia, they've been behaving respectably (at least with broadband, can't speak for any of their other services). Sorry to hear that. Do you have an alternative over there?
Rogers and Aliant is it. The final nail in the coffin for me with Aliant was when I was away on business for a few weeks and they decided to start filtering inbound SMTP traffic. I called and asked about it and they claimed they weren't doing any filtering. When I replied with tcpdump output proving my case, they forwarded me to their abuse department. A few weeks without mail, so I immediately switched to Rogers when I got back.
Not only do I have a faster service (5Mbit with Rogers at the time, when Aliant was offering 2 or 3Mbit IIRC), but they only filter outbound SMTP (not a problem), I have a relatively "static" IP address, and I don't have to deal with the hassles of PPPoE.
Also, bundling our cell phones, television, and internet is a huge win. The Vibe Vision service was shut down, and reborn as Aliant TV some years later.. but it hasn't been rolled out in any areas other than Nova Scotia.
By the way, In the late 90s, things were different. Fundy Cable (who was purchased by Shaw, then by Rogers) had a one-way cablemodem. NBTel (part of Aliant) was trialing 10Mbit/10Mbit HFC service in my neighbourhood. For $39.95/month! It was incredible. The ride lasted a few years before they sent out an email about a "service upgrade", which was going to be $2/more per month, and mandatory. The "upgrade", of course, was the switch to 1.5Mbit ADSL with PPPoE.
STAY AWAY from it [Eastlink] and switch to the good guys in my area [Aliant].
I don't want to start a flamewar, but Aliant's traffic shaping (in New Brunswick, anyway) policies are what made me drop all of their services, including phone services, in favour of Rogers.
We worked with an older model Kreatel box. Still, the models shown on the Kreatel web site are larger than the AmiNET110.
Maybe you misinterpreted the quotation you copied from my post. Emphasis mine: Anyway, the Kreatel hardware I've dealt with is huge in comparison.
The irony is that Motorola lots its IPTV skills when it closed down its world leading Stream Master project a couple of years ago to save money after the dot-com crash.
The Streamaster 5000 was a very nice piece of hardware indeed. After that project was shut down we were stuck with Acorn/Pace set-top boxes, which, although we had them running quite well, would have been no match for the PPC/Nuon combination in the Streamaster. Years ahead of its time.
Disclaimer: I work at (what used to be) one of the original IPTV middleware companies.
Having seen some Kreatel hardware, I can say that it's pretty cool, but certainly not unique. Amino makes the smallest Linux-based IPTV set-top box that I have ever seen. Their AmiNET110 is incredibly small. IIRC the only chip inside is an IBM system-on-a-chip (405GP, for those who care); not much else.
Anyway, the Kreatel hardware I've dealt with is huge in comparison. Both very cool products.
The site appears to be logging your IP address (!!!). Google Cache.
I sell my TV and my Tivo and read books and play video games instead
You're going to have to stop playing video games soon. The latest from EA, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, shoves Cingular ads down your throat (ie "You have received a text message from your rival on your Cingular Wireless mobile phone!"). I'm sure this isn't a new thing (I usually stick to the Mario titles), but it was quite disturbing.
Made me want to return the game immediately.
Instead I wanted to say this is so DRMed funny I nearly pee'd myself!
.. this is so DRMed funny I nearly HDCP'd myself!.
Of course, you mean
People will take these controller around with them instead of just leaving them at home, the controller itself will be a status symbol.
I forget where it was, and I can't seem to find it, but ISTR Nintendo mentioning at one point something along the lines of being "similar to the iPod". I have to agree; I think the GP is on to something!
A quick google search for 'priceritephoto crook', suprisingly, revealed the following photo of the PriceRitePhoto building.
Looks a bit, uhm, sketchy.
When I first read the headline I thought to myself.. how do you save your game?
The article quickly answered my question: As pictured below, the game will also allow you to save your settings and standings via an interchangeable card that can be used on other machines.
Anyone have any idea if these things are a standard format (SD, CF, USB memory, etc) or is it something proprietary to Tatio?
That's hilarious. A cow orker was telling me today about one of the local EB Games stores in the city. Rumour has it that they had received 18 consoles, and at the end of the first day they still had 13 left!
:)
Put a smile on my face when I heard the news this morning; not that I plan on buying one, but it appears that at least in this area, either people didn't buy the hype or we're completely bass-ackwords
I haven't seen this mentioned yet, so maybe I'm the only one who sees it --
The controller looks like you can hold it sideways to play classic NES games (D-pad and the x and y buttons). Brilliant!
I'll be picking one up on release day for sure. This just plain looks _fun_, even more than the Nintendo DS.
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``Of course it runs NetBSD!''
Seriously, who uses the phrase "bee's knees" anyway and what is so great about bee's knees?
I guess it's more PC than saying something is "the cat's ass". Much like saying "poop" or "#2" instead of "shit".
Command line apps and X Windows apps are one thing... Re-creating the Cocoa/Aqua API (a la Wine for Winodws apps) is quite another. How long have the Wine folks been trying to perfect their product? Sure they've had much success over the last .. I don't eight years... and still 75%? of all Windows apps will not run without some sort of problem.
/emul/linux/ and we can seamlessly run Linux binaries alongside the native system binaries.
/emul/darwin tree.
;)
NetBSD's COMPAT_ options are nothing like Wine. Not sure if it was clear on manu's web site, but the idea is that you simply drop your binaries into a compatibility tree (/emul/darwin/ in this case), and your applications will run.
A good example of this is COMPAT_LINUX -- we didn't re-implement glibc, we simply drop something that looks similar to a standard Linux install into
This works the same for COMPAT_SUNOS, COMPAT_SVR4, COMPAT_FREEBSD, COMPAT_IRIX, etc. The COMPAT_DARWIN support is to the point now where we can take an XDarwin binary from an existing OS X system and run it on any machine with a compatible CPU. The kernel takes care of emulating IOKit and friends. It's only a matter of time before the rest of the work is done to make the Quartz server run, and at that point, you should be able to launch any OS X application provided that you have all of the necessary dependencies in your
I also don't think you'll see the same number of motivated developers and corporate interest (CodeWeavers) to fuel such a project. I may be wrong about that but some how I think the drive to run Windows apps on Linux/*BSD is much greater than that of running Mac apps on anything.
Agreed. Apart from Safari and Mail, there's not much on here that comes to mind that I would really want to run on a typical home desktop.
Yes, I know the beauty of Mac apps, but the dedicated will just by a mini-Mac rather than spend hours of coding to run it on Linux/BSD. There is a certain mentality that says I would rather fork over my first-born child rather than run MS Windows that exists in the open source community. This same sentiment isn't really felt against the Macintosh. So, while I'm sure it will happen eventually, running Mac Apps like Photoshop under Linux/*BSD is still years away.
See my comment above about how COMPAT_DARWIN works. I really don't think it's that far off -- and the beauty of it, is that hopefully someday you will be able to run NetBSD on your typical Dell/HP/home-built PC, launch the Quartz windowing system, and run the OS X GUI on top of it.
I own a Powerbook, and I love OS X. I don't love it for Darwin though -- it's nothing special to me. I'd be just as content with my system if I was running on top of a NetBSD kernel, or for that matter, an NT kernel.
As another poster said, Apple legal certainly won't be very happy with this
This reporter doesn't seem to understand that even if the Apple Intel Macs run Windows OS, you still will not be able to run Macintosh apps on Windows XP/Longhorn.
Uhm, why not? NetBSD has a COMPAT_DARWIN option that has already progressed far enough to run command-line OS X applications as well as XDarwin on any PowerPC machine. I will expect this work to be ported to the i386 and x86_64 platforms once OS X86 is released. I'll be quite excited when I can run the iLife suite of applications on my NetBSD workstations!
I think I understand why the PS3 design doesn't sit well with me. They've designed the damn thing so it has to sit on the top of any under TV equipment. There's going to be no stacking this baby under the DVD, AMP and Decoder box.
With the heat that this thing will probably produce, it might be a conscious decision on Sony's part to design it in a way so nobody can stack objects on top of it.
Having said that, it sure would be nice if all of these systems were stackable -- I've got a handful of systems neat my TV (GCN, XBox, PS2, SNES) as well as a VCR, DVD player, and a few digital cable boxes. There's no hope of stacking any of these, as they're all radically different shapes and sizes.
Where are the screenshots?
A lot of people don't have an extra computer lying around either. That doesn't mean nobody should sugest ideas for those of us who do.
I think you need to re-read my original post. The point was, to build a PVR, you need x, y, z. If you already own x and y, good! Makes the job much easier.
We were, however, comparing the benefits of building a Windows PVR using commercial software with a Linux PVR using free software. The cost of the Windows license is a factor. Just because I already own a capture card doesn't mean that it won't be a factor for someone else.
You might as well post an article titled "How to build a PVR for free! [1]", and in small text at the bottom of the page have a footnote:
[1]: Free assumes that you have a spare 2GHz PC, Windows license that can be transferred to this PC, a video capture card, capture hardware, analog cable service, a remote control, etc.
And before you go off and say "Well, why not mention the cost of a PC?", we're talking about the differences between a Linux PVR and a Windows PVR. The PC is common to the two (so is the capture card, the only relevance it has to the conversation is that it was bundled with the PVR software).
Hope this helps. I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings, rather I was pointing out that in a comparison of a Windows and Linux PVR, there are more factors than just the cost of the capture card and PVR software. Already having some pieces of the puzzle is nice, but it's not an option for all of us. That's all I was trying to say.
Had you read the article, you would have learned that he had an "extra" license for Win 2000, and that is what he used. He mentioned upgrading to XP, but said that he didn't.
The article summary suggests that this is a possibility for others who are looking to build a personal video recorder. Had you read the Slashdot summary of the article:
If you have an old computer that had been laying around for a while and are ready to spend a bit on hardware to make into a Digital Video Recorder, this article from Make magazine contains a step-by-step guide on building one.
Sorry, we don't all have "extra" Windows licenses lying around.
The author spent $150 on TV card and $70 on BeyondTV PVR software." (And with a Linux-friendly capture card, MythTV would save the builder $70.)
Lets not forget the license fee for Windows XP -- that's significantly more than $70, I'm sure.