> pretty much can't tell the difference and seem to watch the SD versions of these channels 99% of the time. well, I know which is SD, and which is HD, considering 95% of the non-sports programs have little visible difference in the HD, and SD verisons.
actually the audio synch has been much worse in the HD, with the HD-tivo anyway, and the HD tends to have a large black box to the sides of the TV. Also the Tivo responds slower on HD channels, so I often prefer the SD channel.
Now the difference in quality from our SD TV, to the HD tv, while watching even standard def programs, especially DVD's is huge. Actually it can be pretty close watching a DVD vs watching a movie in HD. side by side the HD is much better up close. but if I turn on a DVD quality movie, many would be hard pressed to tell me thats not HD, until it is switched back and forth to a HD program.
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> "why do talented people waste their abilities on viruses?"
"why do talented people waste their abilities on posting to slashdot?"
Money? Acclaim (within a small community)? Politics?
I would guess money. Spam pays very well, and a lot of companies have had monetary ulterior motives, as always, follow the money.
> If I wanted to cause problems for the company, I'd do that before giving them my notice, I think this is assuming you had plans to do something. I can think of many situations why walking someone out is justified. 1) real reason they quit, they may say I am going to work for myself, or retiring... but they may just have gotten really pissed at company/co-worker that moment and are just not admitting to HR their is a emotional issue. 2) after notice they are now known to many people as not caring about the future of the company, may have been true for years, but now it is known, and competitor/disgruntled co worker may twist the newly dept into acts they didn't consider. 3) unintentional abuse, not thinking about your work anymore as the top priority makes many people take more chances. You may be more likely to reload that database, without verifying the backups... ( I neerly shocked myself to death 11 days into my 14 day notice at one job, after spotless safety to that point. ) 4) final week flash point. Hey theirs more than 1 reason your leaving, you are more likely to be pushed into PO land than the avg worker (no more so than the week before you quit...) another job I quit, I had a contract I assumed since it was un-inforcable, and was up in a month they would release, they didn't. Also my unused vacation was to be re-imbursed, but 5 personal days I had used would not be, somehow the 5 personal days got re-classifed as vacation days, and were not allowed to be used after giving notice, I didn't do anything to the company, not the way I am, but I was pretty pissed, I wouldn't blame anyone for finding other compensation for that $800 unfairly denied (at least unfair in my eyes)... well ok, I did quit showing up 5 days before my contract was up.
> they'd all be in programming classes during elementary school I was with you save the "all" maybe one grade school in a 10,000 could get away with this. but if everyone is forced to learn this, then truly skilled and entusastic programers would be buried even further under millions of forced into the field types, it could kill the entire job market to reward the skilled.
> The "good blogs" you may or may not read are a tiny minority of the millions out there, most of which are written by people who Are you saying all books, TV, newspapers are good, or even the majority? simular to blogs, in print, the ones that are good rise to the top in search results, and sales slots... I know more people who have written books than have blog sites, trust me anyone can write a book, hundreds of thousands of k-12 schools have newspapers, the only difference in my mind, is that it is much easier to find the Willowdale 5th grade blog site than the same schools newspaper, or the staffs books that were not picked up by a publisher (yet?).
> if the network goes down, so do the phones. hunh? is that the Internet going down, or the Intra-Net? >Lastly, your price per phone is going to be somewhat higher. ever price a standard phone system? our analog was $5000 for a 5 line module, not including the $5000 for the answering module, $500 for chassy... it was cheaper for us to spend $5000 for the VOIP server when 1 module went bad. and the difference in price for 4-line analog phone($125) and multi-line (6+) cisco VOIP ($180) was of no conciquince.
back to the network, If you using a T1 PRI line, then ya if that goes down you lose it, whats that got to do with networking? if you mean your running a call center, and everyone individually signed up for a seperate Skype/etc line? then ya that would be pretty stupid, but follows what you suggest. If you mean your VOIP phone is a PC, and it hangs when some random server crashes, then ya you may need a reboot to un-hang your PC.
What I would think is a Typical (probably all) VOIP office setups is to have a card in the VOIP server (which serves no other network purpose) that ties into the PSTN lines exactly the same as a non VOIP setup, and would go down in the same mannor as a non voip setup. on the intra-net/VOIP side, I (since my office VOIP setup is like this) needs a working dhcp server to hookup the phone with the VOIP server when one boots, after that as long as the network switch between the 2 stays up, any phantom network problem (shy of a looped network) is of no consiquence.
I would suggest doing like I did, and use Power Over Eithernet for the phones and any switches that need power between the phone and the VOIP server.
Thus the UPS for the phone server can keep up all the phone related network, including the phones, without running any more wiring than a eithernet cable out of the network closet. you can keep the rest of the network on a seperate UPS, because (from experience) all the other servers, and data T1 box can shutdown without affect to the phones (at least until someone un-plugs their phone.)
as far as seperate network segments, that doesn't need to be physicaly seperate, but you would be good to kick you phones to a seperate netmask to keep colisions... etc lessoned (just made my limited TCP/IP knowledge easier in setting prioritys in the smart switches.)
File Size limitations? have any luck with DivX rips ~2 GB? The XBox installs I used, don't support a partition greater than 112GB (makes a second one with my 250GB, but thats very difficult to use with XBMC.) So the next option was a SMB share, well that didn't work from the XBOX for file sizes over 1.5G (apperently run into the samba size limits on linux.)
The xbox controllers controlls for video playback are truely awesome (on the files it will play of mine) much much better than the tivo remote.
(this weeks task is removing NTFS from my USB drive, and seeing how XBMC supports that. anyone? Fat32 ok?)
> It's not the bubbles that are important. > It's the *dye* >A dye that will fade to nothing in air, or because of friction, or with plain water
Also DRM for paintings, and books. may even send out a book with a single page, that just fades to the next. Now you better be a fast reader if yor reading outside in Arizona during August.
I wonder about the bubbles also, I assume they can't deliver them in the summer, unless in AirConditioned truck, and you better not leave the container in the sun, or your back to clear bubbles.
> the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment.
that should read the local LA road enviroment, not the environment as a whole. (maybe not even that, article I read, showed that exhaust from a new cars running engine in freeway traffic is cleaner than the intake air, due largely to the older cars, diesiels, brake dust, etc caught in the air cleaners, and processed by a CAT)
aricle is slashdoted, but I doubt "the environment" is the winner. I am betting that driving (and keeping it tuned up) a 10 year old car that would have otherwise been crushed is much better for the entire enviroment than buying a new SUV. that should be the push instead.
After all the extra costs for a hybrid, is likely due to the high energy costs associated with getting all the extra raw materials required for it's production...
>that the corporate entity is the author of software, or any other "work for hire" built by an employee
only if that employee was hired explictly to do software, or if that person has signed a contract stating they give the copyright to that company. Or the company has a contract with that person stating they are doing software as a "work for hire" (according to my google results).
so if he were hired to troubleshoot computer/equipment/etc, and wrote some software, absent a contract, then he, the author owns the copyright on that software, but the company has the right to use that work as intended by the author. Also while employed as other than a software designer, if they contribute software to another project owned by the company, they are now co-author, and have a say in the further licensing (of course the company can remove the added content, or go back to a pre-existing version...)
If the photographer worked for a studio, the studio owner would actually own the images, followed your advice(google), to find who owns the copyright, all the first 5 links I clicked on say the opposite of what you claim.
http://copylaw.com/new_articles/wfh.html the fact that under copyright law, authors are presumed to own the copyright in the works they create. The best way to avoid these problems is by having a written agreement in place before any work begins.
> collecting 30-50 titles (about the size of my DVD collection), you're talking serious space.
serious space? 2.5" x 8" for 100 movies? now 50 DVD's is serious space, thats a 6' stack from the floor, that can't be easily indexed 5 different ways, like the menu on my linkplayer. As far as loss, I have killed more DVDs/CD's than backup harddrives (my dvd backups arent constantly accessed like the laptop/pc drives I have lost.) now, if one was to let the internet/friend keep another backup for you;)
so 50 titles * 5 gig = 250Gig, thats $95 at todays prices, granted $2 a movie for storage isn't cheap. But my ripped divx movies are under 2gig (that is at dvd quality, no special features) so that reduces the cost to $0.75 a movie.
Now wifi my neighbors collections together, and we got a nice solution.
to answer the orignial Question, average price of $5 a movie that I can watch forever without worrying about transfering DRM, etc, etc would be worth it. otherwise, not interested in a constant fight to play, on whatever new toy I buy...
> BA in Computer Science. is that a slam? trying to say the Science in computer science is not really science, but a art? (my first grammer police post, but I thought it was funney, sorry.)
> but by leaving the Autorun "feature" on, you have failed to create this secure environment. just for the record, Autorun is not the only thing you have to avoid to stop this.
I have autorun turned off, but in windows 2000 explorer, clicking on the CD Icon runs autorun, unless I right click, and choose browse/rip/play, etc. because I also have all the daemons that enable the autoplay disabled for real, winamp, and the itunes installs on this PC and thus click on the CD icon to do all this.
>if you're riding a bus that's actually more fun than watching an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, I'd really like to hear about this magical bus. That'd be a hell of a tourist trap.
> legally get around encrypted does the DMCA have any effect on wether the parents actions are legal? supposed to prevent you from disclosing/selling the know-how. But I didn't think their was any non-copyright rules that keeps us from ripping DVD's in linux, or recording the output from a licensed player, etc, etc.
> Back in the 70's... Even in the 80's... Clinton came under...
I think it is just the luck of timing for the current administration, all of those were shocks to me. IMHO It was so overdone in the 90's that I just assume every admin is so completly corrupt, thats it not even interesting news. Now I do still want them investigated, and to have a public backlash that throws them all out, but since I dont care anymore tell everyone else, let them get excited, let them take care of it. Problem occurs when "them" feal the same as me, and just quit watching the news, so the news becomes fluff for awhile to get the viewers back, before they can go back to real news, that gets people excited again...
> People argue for tax increases and then wonder why new and more efficiently intrusive government agencies pop up.
A) who arugues for tax increases, I must have missed that one (oh repeal the tax cut to the rich, sure I am for taxing someone else, I assuming that means less tax for me in the future, cause I am still young enough to have to pay for the current debt)
B) currently those arguing for more tax cuts, are the same ones passing more goverment intrusion (conservitive my ass)
I do agree with the other post, that was the Regan (era) economics, pass every spending measure and tax cut, to bankrupt the govmt, so someone else will have to do the hard work of cleaning out the gov't, so you can stay popular. That didnt work (well the popular bit did.)
> The developers hope to use this with video games and other entertainment
why just video games, think of nfl, and nba. quaterback doesn't have to give the entire route, he just nudges them to the ball (or coach whatever.)
ever since the first nfl video game I played, I wanted to devise a cheat healment/goggles with a led telling the reciever or defender the balls on it's way look now. (or the QB you got a big man headed your way.) but now that you could stuff it in the mouth piece, all the better.
> Well, no crap. Soutpark already did that (the brown noise.) so ya when this is hacked to create crap in the pants, that'll really make a stink. (At least no one will worry about the hot java GTA hack anymore.)
as usual AC is a bit clueless see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(software)/ basically be definition a pipeline is implemented by multiple threads (with the exception for a msdos implimentation to mimick a pipeline with buffers, and a single thread). But whats the point of a pipeline, if you have to wait for everything to backup in a lake before starting the pipe flowing again.
technically a pipeline is probably plesiochronous, but synchronous is close enough, not sure how AC thinks that parts of the pipeline being syncronous would lead to the idea of a single thread, it leads me to think the opposite.
also still makes no sense why a few want to bash the pipeline syntax.
to their defense SCO has said they think the GPL is invalid (well, at least I read it on slashdot, didn't RTFA) and thus gives SCO another chance to challange the GPL, and get some publicity at the same time.
> When you have to do things like "command | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | cut -d ':' -f 1" to get some data, you know something is WRONG
>>Which, obviously here, is the person who has wrote this garbage. I would never write this, but would rather write a sed command to do that.
I miss why this is garbage, especially for some multi-thread or multi-cpu systems, breaking this into 3 processes may give big advantages over a single sed process, if nothing else this is much more readable to me, than a sed equivilent.
> as you would have to do with a MythTV box. The regular gen2 TIVO box can be directly connected to MCE, but has to be hacked for use with MythTV. but both MCE, and MythTV are on equal footing with the DirectTV unit.
Your post makes it sound like MythTV is missing something MCE has, true, but not in your example. The only way to get the Tivo content from the DirecTV-Tivo into MCE is to have hacked the TIVO box turning off the passwords... once you have done that, MythTV can grab those files also.
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> pretty much can't tell the difference and seem to watch the SD versions of these channels 99% of the time.
well, I know which is SD, and which is HD, considering 95% of the non-sports programs have little visible difference in the HD, and SD verisons.
actually the audio synch has been much worse in the HD, with the HD-tivo anyway, and the HD tends to have a large black box to the sides of the TV. Also the Tivo responds slower on HD channels, so I often prefer the SD channel.
Now the difference in quality from our SD TV, to the HD tv, while watching even standard def programs, especially DVD's is huge. Actually it can be pretty close watching a DVD vs watching a movie in HD. side by side the HD is much better up close. but if I turn on a DVD quality movie, many would be hard pressed to tell me thats not HD, until it is switched back and forth to a HD program.
> "why do talented people waste their abilities on viruses?"
"why do talented people waste their abilities on posting to slashdot?"
Money?
Acclaim (within a small community)?
Politics?
I would guess money. Spam pays very well, and a lot of companies have had monetary ulterior motives, as always, follow the money.
> If I wanted to cause problems for the company, I'd do that before giving them my notice,
I think this is assuming you had plans to do something. I can think of many situations why walking someone out is justified.
1) real reason they quit, they may say I am going to work for myself, or retiring... but they may just have gotten really pissed at company/co-worker that moment and are just not admitting to HR their is a emotional issue.
2) after notice they are now known to many people as not caring about the future of the company, may have been true for years, but now it is known, and competitor/disgruntled co worker may twist the newly dept into acts they didn't consider.
3) unintentional abuse, not thinking about your work anymore as the top priority makes many people take more chances. You may be more likely to reload that database, without verifying the backups... ( I neerly shocked myself to death 11 days into my 14 day notice at one job, after spotless safety to that point. )
4) final week flash point. Hey theirs more than 1 reason your leaving, you are more likely to be pushed into PO land than the avg worker (no more so than the week before you quit...) another job I quit, I had a contract I assumed since it was un-inforcable, and was up in a month they would release, they didn't. Also my unused vacation was to be re-imbursed, but 5 personal days I had used would not be, somehow the 5 personal days got re-classifed as vacation days, and were not allowed to be used after giving notice, I didn't do anything to the company, not the way I am, but I was pretty pissed, I wouldn't blame anyone for finding other compensation for that $800 unfairly denied (at least unfair in my eyes)... well ok, I did quit showing up 5 days before my contract was up.
> they'd all be in programming classes during elementary school
I was with you save the "all" maybe one grade school in a 10,000 could get away with this. but if everyone is forced to learn this, then truly skilled and entusastic programers would be buried even further under millions of forced into the field types, it could kill the entire job market to reward the skilled.
> The "good blogs" you may or may not read are a tiny minority of the millions out there, most of which are written by people who
Are you saying all books, TV, newspapers are good, or even the majority? simular to blogs, in print, the ones that are good rise to the top in search results, and sales slots... I know more people who have written books than have blog sites, trust me anyone can write a book, hundreds of thousands of k-12 schools have newspapers, the only difference in my mind, is that it is much easier to find the Willowdale 5th grade blog site than the same schools newspaper, or the staffs books that were not picked up by a publisher (yet?).
> if the network goes down, so do the phones.
hunh? is that the Internet going down, or the Intra-Net?
>Lastly, your price per phone is going to be somewhat higher.
ever price a standard phone system? our analog was $5000 for a 5 line module, not including the $5000 for the answering module, $500 for chassy... it was cheaper for us to spend $5000 for the VOIP server when 1 module went bad. and the difference in price for 4-line analog phone($125) and multi-line (6+) cisco VOIP ($180) was of no conciquince.
back to the network, If you using a T1 PRI line, then ya if that goes down you lose it, whats that got to do with networking?
if you mean your running a call center, and everyone individually signed up for a seperate Skype/etc line? then ya that would be pretty stupid, but follows what you suggest.
If you mean your VOIP phone is a PC, and it hangs when some random server crashes, then ya you may need a reboot to un-hang your PC.
What I would think is a Typical (probably all) VOIP office setups is to have a card in the VOIP server (which serves no other network purpose) that ties into the PSTN lines exactly the same as a non VOIP setup, and would go down in the same mannor as a non voip setup. on the intra-net/VOIP side, I (since my office VOIP setup is like this) needs a working dhcp server to hookup the phone with the VOIP server when one boots, after that as long as the network switch between the 2 stays up, any phantom network problem (shy of a looped network) is of no consiquence.
I would suggest doing like I did, and use Power Over Eithernet for the phones and any switches that need power between the phone and the VOIP server.
Thus the UPS for the phone server can keep up all the phone related network, including the phones, without running any more wiring than a eithernet cable out of the network closet. you can keep the rest of the network on a seperate UPS, because (from experience) all the other servers, and data T1 box can shutdown without affect to the phones (at least until someone un-plugs their phone.)
as far as seperate network segments, that doesn't need to be physicaly seperate, but you would be good to kick you phones to a seperate netmask to keep colisions... etc lessoned (just made my limited TCP/IP knowledge easier in setting prioritys in the smart switches.)
File Size limitations?
have any luck with DivX rips ~2 GB?
The XBox installs I used, don't support a partition greater than 112GB (makes a second one with my 250GB, but thats very difficult to use with XBMC.) So the next option was a SMB share, well that didn't work from the XBOX for file sizes over 1.5G (apperently run into the samba size limits on linux.)
The xbox controllers controlls for video playback are truely awesome (on the files it will play of mine) much much better than the tivo remote.
(this weeks task is removing NTFS from my USB drive, and seeing how XBMC supports that. anyone? Fat32 ok?)
> It's not the bubbles that are important.
> It's the *dye*
>A dye that will fade to nothing in air, or because of friction, or with plain water
Also DRM for paintings, and books. may even send out a book with a single page, that just fades to the next. Now you better be a fast reader if yor reading outside in Arizona during August.
I wonder about the bubbles also, I assume they can't deliver them in the summer, unless in AirConditioned truck, and you better not leave the container in the sun, or your back to clear bubbles.
> the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment.
that should read the local LA road enviroment, not the environment as a whole.
(maybe not even that, article I read, showed that exhaust from a new cars running engine in freeway traffic is cleaner than the intake air, due largely to the older cars, diesiels, brake dust, etc caught in the air cleaners, and processed by a CAT)
aricle is slashdoted, but I doubt "the environment" is the winner. I am betting that driving (and keeping it tuned up) a 10 year old car that would have otherwise been crushed is much better for the entire enviroment than buying a new SUV. that should be the push instead.
After all the extra costs for a hybrid, is likely due to the high energy costs associated with getting all the extra raw materials required for it's production...
> Should we jail people for speeding? It is, after all, a crime.
try not signing that speeding ticket, and see what happens.
>that the corporate entity is the author of software, or any other "work for hire" built by an employee
only if that employee was hired explictly to do software, or if that person has signed a contract stating they give the copyright to that company. Or the company has a contract with that person stating they are doing software as a "work for hire" (according to my google results).
so if he were hired to troubleshoot computer/equipment/etc, and wrote some software, absent a contract, then he, the author owns the copyright on that software, but the company has the right to use that work as intended by the author. Also while employed as other than a software designer, if they contribute software to another project owned by the company, they are now co-author, and have a say in the further licensing (of course the company can remove the added content, or go back to a pre-existing version...)
If the photographer worked for a studio, the studio owner would actually own the images,
followed your advice(google), to find who owns the copyright, all the first 5 links I clicked on say the opposite of what you claim.
http://copylaw.com/new_articles/wfh.html
the fact that under copyright law, authors are presumed to own the copyright in the works they create. The best way to avoid these problems is by having a written agreement in place before any work begins.
> collecting 30-50 titles (about the size of my DVD collection), you're talking serious space.
;)
serious space? 2.5" x 8" for 100 movies? now 50 DVD's is serious space, thats a 6' stack from the floor, that can't be easily indexed 5 different ways, like the menu on my linkplayer. As far as loss, I have killed more DVDs/CD's than backup harddrives (my dvd backups arent constantly accessed like the laptop/pc drives I have lost.) now, if one was to let the internet/friend keep another backup for you
so 50 titles * 5 gig = 250Gig, thats $95 at todays prices, granted $2 a movie for storage isn't cheap. But my ripped divx movies are under 2gig (that is at dvd quality, no special features) so that reduces the cost to $0.75 a movie.
Now wifi my neighbors collections together, and we got a nice solution.
to answer the orignial Question, average price of $5 a movie that I can watch forever without worrying about transfering DRM, etc, etc would be worth it. otherwise, not interested in a constant fight to play, on whatever new toy I buy...
> BA in Computer Science.
is that a slam? trying to say the Science in computer science is not really science, but a art?
(my first grammer police post, but I thought it was funney, sorry.)
> but by leaving the Autorun "feature" on, you have failed to create this secure environment.
just for the record, Autorun is not the only thing you have to avoid to stop this.
I have autorun turned off, but in windows 2000 explorer, clicking on the CD Icon runs autorun, unless I right click, and choose browse/rip/play, etc. because I also have all the daemons that enable the autoplay disabled for real, winamp, and the itunes installs on this PC and thus click on the CD icon to do all this.
>if you're riding a bus that's actually more fun than watching an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, I'd really like to hear about this magical bus. That'd be a hell of a tourist trap.
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Topless tour bus
http://www.walnet.org/csis/news/world_2002/reuter
> legally get around encrypted
does the DMCA have any effect on wether the parents actions are legal?
supposed to prevent you from disclosing/selling the know-how. But I didn't think their was any non-copyright rules that keeps us from ripping DVD's in linux, or recording the output from a licensed player, etc, etc.
> Back in the 70's ... Even in the 80's ... Clinton came under ...
I think it is just the luck of timing for the current administration, all of those were shocks to me. IMHO It was so overdone in the 90's that I just assume every admin is so completly corrupt, thats it not even interesting news.
Now I do still want them investigated, and to have a public backlash that throws them all out, but since I dont care anymore tell everyone else, let them get excited, let them take care of it. Problem occurs when "them" feal the same as me, and just quit watching the news, so the news becomes fluff for awhile to get the viewers back, before they can go back to real news, that gets people excited again...
> People argue for tax increases and then wonder why new and more efficiently intrusive government agencies pop up.
A) who arugues for tax increases, I must have missed that one (oh repeal the tax cut to the rich, sure I am for taxing someone else, I assuming that means less tax for me in the future, cause I am still young enough to have to pay for the current debt)
B) currently those arguing for more tax cuts, are the same ones passing more goverment intrusion (conservitive my ass)
I do agree with the other post, that was the Regan (era) economics, pass every spending measure and tax cut, to bankrupt the govmt, so someone else will have to do the hard work of cleaning out the gov't, so you can stay popular. That didnt work (well the popular bit did.)
> The developers hope to use this with video games and other entertainment
why just video games, think of nfl, and nba. quaterback doesn't have to give the entire route, he just nudges them to the ball (or coach whatever.)
ever since the first nfl video game I played, I wanted to devise a cheat healment/goggles with a led telling the reciever or defender the balls on it's way look now. (or the QB you got a big man headed your way.)
but now that you could stuff it in the mouth piece, all the better.
> Well, no crap.
Soutpark already did that (the brown noise.) so ya when this is hacked to create crap in the pants, that'll really make a stink.
(At least no one will worry about the hot java GTA hack anymore.)
as usual AC is a bit clueless see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(software)/
basically be definition a pipeline is implemented by multiple threads (with the exception for a msdos implimentation to mimick a pipeline with buffers, and a single thread). But whats the point of a pipeline, if you have to wait for everything to backup in a lake before starting the pipe flowing again.
technically a pipeline is probably plesiochronous, but synchronous is close enough, not sure how AC thinks that parts of the pipeline being syncronous would lead to the idea of a single thread, it leads me to think the opposite.
also still makes no sense why a few want to bash the pipeline syntax.
to their defense SCO has said they think the GPL is invalid (well, at least I read it on slashdot, didn't RTFA) and thus gives SCO another chance to challange the GPL, and get some publicity at the same time.
> When you have to do things like "command | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | cut -d ':' -f 1" to get some data, you know something is WRONG
>>Which, obviously here, is the person who has wrote this garbage. I would never write this, but would rather write a sed command to do that.
I miss why this is garbage, especially for some multi-thread or multi-cpu systems, breaking this into 3 processes may give big advantages over a single sed process, if nothing else this is much more readable to me, than a sed equivilent.
> as you would have to do with a MythTV box.
The regular gen2 TIVO box can be directly connected to MCE, but has to be hacked for use with MythTV. but both MCE, and MythTV are on equal footing with the DirectTV unit.
Your post makes it sound like MythTV is missing something MCE has, true, but not in your example.
The only way to get the Tivo content from the DirecTV-Tivo into MCE is to have hacked the TIVO box turning off the passwords... once you have done that, MythTV can grab those files also.