The answer isn't to add more things to the TV. The answer is to consolidate the boxes outside the TV.
Indeed. My 52" LCD is used only as a dumb monitor to display streams from my Xbox 360, PS3, NMT/Popcorn Hour, Roku/Netflix box, and PC. Problem is, this is an awful lot of computing power devoted to watching movies and TV shows.
In terms of consolidation, the Popcorn Hour shows a lot of promise as a small form factor, low cost network-to-dumb-monitor gateway, but at present it's a little too nerd-oriented to be generally usable by anyone not willing to tinker with it. Yes, it runs Linux.
The Clie syncs perfectly with Mac OS X -- contacts, todos, notes, and calendar -- (and also with iTunes for MP3 transfer) using "The Missing Sync" (markspace.com), Microsoft's Entourage conduit (microsoft.com/mac), and Palm Desktop 4 (palm.com). Haven't tried iSync yet, as I'm still running 10.1.5.
My Clie NR70 syncs to my Mac via Bluetooth using the D-Link USB Bluetooth adapter. I can also send/receive email and surf the web on my Clie wirelessly via Bluetooth and GPRS using Sony's Bluetooth memory stick (expansys.com) and my Sony Ericsson T68i phone (sonyericsson.com).
The new Clies (NX70, NX60) announced yesterday will also do 802.11b via a proprietary Sony card (must be purchased seperately).
For more info on your questions visit cliesource.com and read the NR70, Mac, and Wireless forums.
Here's part of Speakeasy's statement on the actions they are preparing to take (I'm a residential SDSL customer):
The affects of this worm are detrimental to all and we'd like to give each
member a chance to secure their machines. However, after 9/23/01,
Speakeasy's Abuse Team will be freezing the DSL circuit hooked to any
machine infected with the worm. We apologize for the inconvenience of
this, but it is imperative that we ensure our network is not assisting in
the propagation of this, or any, worm. All of us are part of a larger
community, and it really isn't cool to infect your neighbors.
Makes sense to me:)
I run Apache off my DSL network at home, but use it for internal dev purposes only and thus have all but a few incoming ports firewalled.
FWIW, here's a Perl hack to stop DoS-type activity caused by the Nimda worm pounding Apache with Get requests; I've been using on on a RedHat 6.2 server with IPChains for two days now, and it works remarkably well.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# IISBLOCK - Infected IIS server blocking utility.
# by Bill Larson of Compu-Net Enterprises.
# http://www.compu.net. This header must be kept intact if you
# wish to redistribute the script.
my $check = 0;
my $line = "";
my $weblog = "/etc/www/logs/access_log";
my $infection = "/root/infected";
my $removelist = "/root/fwclean";
# create the removelist file so that you can chmod it later and
# automatically clear the firewall.. chmod 700 iisblock
open (HTFILE3, ">$removelist");
print HTFILE3 "#!/bin/sh\n";
close(HTFILE3);
#open the web server log file specified above and start processing
open (HTFILE, "$weblog");
until (eof (HTFILE))
{
$line =;
chop ($line);
#Pattern match on IIS Attempts then strip down to the hostname/ip addresss
if ($line =~/.*\/winnt\/system32\/.*/) {
$line =~ s/\ -.*//gi;
# This host is infected so lets do something about it.
}
}
close(HTFILE);
sub infected {
$check = 0;
# begin a check to ensure that we only take action once.
open (HTFILE2, "$infection");
until (eof (HTFILE2)){
$dupe =;
chop ($dupe);
if ($line =~/$dupe/){
$check = 1;
}
else {
}
}
close(HTFILE2);
# If this is a unique host continue
if ($check eq "0") {
# time to add to the list of infected hosts
open (HTFILE2, ">>$infection");
print HTFILE2 "$line\n";
close(HTFILE2);
# add using the specified add command
# firewall software will print an error on invalid hostnames.
# Zap them one at a time maunally
system ("/sbin/ipchains -I input -s $line -j DENY -l");
# write firewall removal line to the remove list file
# modify this line for your specific firewall software
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The answer isn't to add more things to the TV. The answer is to consolidate the boxes outside the TV.
Indeed. My 52" LCD is used only as a dumb monitor to display streams from my Xbox 360, PS3, NMT/Popcorn Hour, Roku/Netflix box, and PC. Problem is, this is an awful lot of computing power devoted to watching movies and TV shows.
In terms of consolidation, the Popcorn Hour shows a lot of promise as a small form factor, low cost network-to-dumb-monitor gateway, but at present it's a little too nerd-oriented to be generally usable by anyone not willing to tinker with it. Yes, it runs Linux.
The Clie syncs perfectly with Mac OS X -- contacts, todos, notes, and calendar -- (and also with iTunes for MP3 transfer) using "The Missing Sync" (markspace.com), Microsoft's Entourage conduit (microsoft.com/mac), and Palm Desktop 4 (palm.com). Haven't tried iSync yet, as I'm still running 10.1.5.
My Clie NR70 syncs to my Mac via Bluetooth using the D-Link USB Bluetooth adapter. I can also send/receive email and surf the web on my Clie wirelessly via Bluetooth and GPRS using Sony's Bluetooth memory stick (expansys.com) and my Sony Ericsson T68i phone (sonyericsson.com).
The new Clies (NX70, NX60) announced yesterday will also do 802.11b via a proprietary Sony card (must be purchased seperately).
For more info on your questions visit cliesource.com and read the NR70, Mac, and Wireless forums.
Here's part of Speakeasy's statement on the actions they are preparing to take (I'm a residential SDSL customer):
:)
/.*\/winnt\/system32\/.*/) {
/$dupe/){
The affects of this worm are detrimental to all and we'd like to give each
member a chance to secure their machines. However, after 9/23/01,
Speakeasy's Abuse Team will be freezing the DSL circuit hooked to any
machine infected with the worm. We apologize for the inconvenience of
this, but it is imperative that we ensure our network is not assisting in
the propagation of this, or any, worm. All of us are part of a larger
community, and it really isn't cool to infect your neighbors.
Makes sense to me
I run Apache off my DSL network at home, but use it for internal dev purposes only and thus have all but a few incoming ports firewalled.
FWIW, here's a Perl hack to stop DoS-type activity caused by the Nimda worm pounding Apache with Get requests; I've been using on on a RedHat 6.2 server with IPChains for two days now, and it works remarkably well.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# IISBLOCK - Infected IIS server blocking utility.
# by Bill Larson of Compu-Net Enterprises.
# http://www.compu.net. This header must be kept intact if you
# wish to redistribute the script.
my $check = 0;
my $line = "";
my $weblog = "/etc/www/logs/access_log";
my $infection = "/root/infected";
my $removelist = "/root/fwclean";
# create the removelist file so that you can chmod it later and
# automatically clear the firewall.. chmod 700 iisblock
open (HTFILE3, ">$removelist");
print HTFILE3 "#!/bin/sh\n";
close(HTFILE3);
#open the web server log file specified above and start processing
open (HTFILE, "$weblog");
until (eof (HTFILE))
{
$line =;
chop ($line);
#Pattern match on IIS Attempts then strip down to the hostname/ip addresss
if ($line =~
$line =~ s/\ -.*//gi;
# This host is infected so lets do something about it.
}
}
close(HTFILE);
sub infected {
$check = 0;
# begin a check to ensure that we only take action once.
open (HTFILE2, "$infection");
until (eof (HTFILE2)){
$dupe =;
chop ($dupe);
if ($line =~
$check = 1;
}
else {
}
}
close(HTFILE2);
# If this is a unique host continue
if ($check eq "0") {
# time to add to the list of infected hosts
open (HTFILE2, ">>$infection");
print HTFILE2 "$line\n";
close(HTFILE2);
# add using the specified add command
# firewall software will print an error on invalid hostnames.
# Zap them one at a time maunally
system ("/sbin/ipchains -I input -s $line -j DENY -l");
# write firewall removal line to the remove list file
# modify this line for your specific firewall software
open (HTFILE3, ">>$removelist");
print HTFILE3 "/sbin/ipchains -D input -s $line -j DENY -l\n";
close(HTFILE3);
}
# That's all folks!
}