The SDK *says* it requires an Intel Mac, but my wife found instructions on the net and just last night we compiled and ran from XCode on her G4 to her iPhone. She had been excited that we had an excuse to upgrade from her G4, but it turns out iPhone development doesn't require us to upgrade.
I was in the process of trying to transfer my domain to another registrar when my agreement with NetSol expired. (This was a few months ago before any registrars had any idea how to transfer a domain.) Now that the domain has expired, I can't transfer it or delete it or change any of the DNS info. It feels like NetSol is holding my domain name for ransom. I was expecting the domain to simply become available again so I could register with someone else. (Yes, I know someone else could register it if they notice that it is available first, but I am not worried.)
If a few interested people were to spend some hours on this, we could come up with a free version of the software. It might never get as polished as a commercial box like Tivo, but it would be hackable - if you want to add/change/remove a feature you could do it.
Control it with whatever input device you like - infrared remote, keyboard, mouse, telnet.
The software would have some hefty hardware requirements, but I would definitely rather pay similar money to buy hardware to upgrade my fast game playing machine (add a nice mpeg/tuner board with a remote and a fast/large hard drive with separate read/write heads). Then I could use my ethernet, program it to record remotely, etc.
The two problems I see for this project are:
1. Does the tuner/mpeg board exist as a product that is inexpensive enough? I haven't seen it, but if they are able to build it into these boxes at consumer prices there must be something out there.
2. Program guides for your location would have to be sucked in somehow - there may be a clever way to extract this from some web pages, but this is the sort of thing that may need both continuous attention and different solutions for different areas.
If anyone knows of a project that is working on this, by all means post about it and email me - I have been interested in this idea since I wrote a TV schedule viewer in a user interface class.
If you don't know of a project that is working on this but you are interested, email me anyway. If I find a project in progress, I will let you know about it, otherwise I will try starting one.
I just ran out of disk space trying to compile it. Silly me, I thought that 450M might be enough. Looks like I will have to try compiling it in my FTP partition...
We were actually using NT as our firewall for the office at the time (dialing up and sharing the modem with WinGate) so it was not a problem for them to see a Windows computer when they came for the install. After much trouble with WinGate, I convinced them to let me try Linux on the firewall and we are never going back. There was some trouble when for a while we were switching frequently between Linux, NT, and 95, but I think that was related to BellSouth's DHCP server being down frequently. Now if they would just offer us a static IP...
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The SDK *says* it requires an Intel Mac, but my wife found instructions on the net and just last night we compiled and ran from XCode on her G4 to her iPhone.
She had been excited that we had an excuse to upgrade from her G4, but it turns out iPhone development doesn't require us to upgrade.
I was in the process of trying to transfer my domain to another registrar when my agreement with NetSol expired. (This was a few months ago before any registrars had any idea how to transfer a domain.) Now that the domain has expired, I can't transfer it or delete it or change any of the DNS info. It feels like NetSol is holding my domain name for ransom. I was expecting the domain to simply become available again so I could register with someone else. (Yes, I know someone else could register it if they notice that it is available first, but I am not worried.)
If a few interested people were to spend some hours on this, we could come up with a free version of the software. It might never get as polished as a commercial box like Tivo, but it would be hackable - if you want to add/change/remove a feature you could do it.
Control it with whatever input device you like - infrared remote, keyboard, mouse, telnet.
The software would have some hefty hardware requirements, but I would definitely rather pay similar money to buy hardware to upgrade my fast game playing machine (add a nice mpeg/tuner board with a remote and a fast/large hard drive with separate read/write heads). Then I could use my ethernet, program it to record remotely, etc.
The two problems I see for this project are:
1. Does the tuner/mpeg board exist as a product that is inexpensive enough? I haven't seen it, but if they are able to build it into these boxes at consumer prices there must be something out there.
2. Program guides for your location would have to be sucked in somehow - there may be a clever way to extract this from some web pages, but this is the sort of thing that may need both continuous attention and different solutions for different areas.
If anyone knows of a project that is working on this, by all means post about it and email me - I have been interested in this idea since I wrote a TV schedule viewer in a user interface class.
If you don't know of a project that is working on this but you are interested, email me anyway. If I find a project in progress, I will let you know about it, otherwise I will try starting one.
Mark.Gray@pobox.com
I just ran out of disk space trying to compile it.
Silly me, I thought that 450M might be enough.
Looks like I will have to try compiling it in my FTP partition...
We were actually using NT as our firewall for the office at the time (dialing up and sharing the modem with WinGate) so it was not a problem for them to see a Windows computer when they came for the install. After much trouble with WinGate, I convinced them to let me try Linux on the firewall and we are never going back.
There was some trouble when for a while we were switching frequently between Linux, NT, and 95, but I think that was related to BellSouth's DHCP server being down frequently. Now if they would just offer us a static IP...