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  1. Football!! on EchoStar Asks Supreme Court to Let Unlock Local Channels · · Score: 1

    Raiders game is blacked out in Oakland? Watch it on the local station in New York! My San Francisco game isn't being shown in Los Angeles, watch the Bay Area channel. Every NFL game is on TV somewhere...

  2. Re:PhatNoise (Music Keg) does work with Linux! on Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts · · Score: 1

    That is absolutely correct.

  3. Re:cradle interface on Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts · · Score: 1

    It comes with a USB cradle, and Windows software. Linux support is available at http://unix.phatnoise.com/. The software is smart enough to not re-copy a file that is already on the cartridge. I had one long copy of several gigs, then when I add content it only takes a few minutes each time to copy over the new files.

  4. Re:Can we hack it like the Creative Jukebox... on Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, but replacement 30G cartridges are available at http://www.phatnoise.com/

  5. Music Keg DOES NOT (yet) support OGG! on Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nowhere does the Kenwood Music Keg (PhatNoise PhatBox) claim to support Ogg. The author of the article must have mis-read some of the literature which clearly states that Ogg is only supported in the (Windows) desktop software. The author also overstates the capabilities of the Kenwood X959, which does NOT play mpeg files, just short animations which can be loaded into the head unit's memory via CD-Rs.

    The Kenwood Music Keg runs Linux, and can be upgraded to support Ogg when free ARM decoding libraries are available. Also, there are Linux utilities for managing playlists on the Music Keg.

  6. Re:OLED Displays? on Consumer Electronics Show 2002 Report · · Score: 1

    Most car stereo manufactures had one or more high end units with these displays.

  7. Hack the CD Changer Bus on Is Hacking Cars a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    Hack the CD changer bus, and plug in an mp3 player instead.
    like this

  8. Re:Netcraft weirdness on Slashback: Highness, Hominess, Hole-ines · · Score: 4, Informative

    The servers are running on Windows machines behind some sort of proxy, load balancer, redirector, whatever. Thus, a query of the IP stack gives one OS, but the server is from another OS.

  9. Car unit can only access 512 songs! on 80 Gig MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    http://www.reality.be/demo/gidi/ - Click on "The player". By the car unit you see:
    "8 updatable playlists of up to 64 titles each"

    Hmm... Couldn't you do that with a 2G drive?

  10. Re:PhatNoise - review of an alternative system on Rio Car (Empeg) Sounds Like History · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use a Palm to control my Phatbox since I don't have a compatible head unit. The whole system works really well. boxster.sixpak.org/mp3/

  11. OGG needs free ARM libraries on Rio Car (Empeg) Sounds Like History · · Score: 1

    The EMPEG and PhatBox are both software upgradable, Linux-running ARM computers. As soon as there are free OGG libraries that will run on that ARM CPU (no FPU), you can run OGG on them.

  12. SSH client logins on SSH Vulnerability and the Future of SSL · · Score: 1

    Don't all ssh clients send the password in one packet after reading them in? Even further, don't the newer versions pad the password to the lenght can't be guessed? I would suspect that this attack would only work on passwords typed after logging in (e.g. su).

  13. I just need ARM-Linux decoding libraries on Who'll Be Using Ogg Vorbis Instead Of MP3? · · Score: 1

    The only place I can't play OGG files is in my car - a PhatNoise PhatBox. The ARM CPU needs optimised decoding libraries, the same ones the EMPEG needs to play OGG. As soon as those are out, I'll switch.

  14. Re:I chose Coke! on Who'll Be Using Ogg Vorbis Instead Of MP3? · · Score: 1

    You're not the only one who chose Coke. According to his autobiography, when John Scully was president of Pepsi, he took the challenge, and chose Coke!

  15. Aternate system with Palm V and linux box in trunk on iPAQ AutoMP3 Jukebox How-to · · Score: 1

    I set up a similar system using my Palm V to control a PhatBox (arm/Linux computer) in my trunk.
    http://boxster.sixpak.org/mp3/

  16. Prior art - PhatNoise on Iomega Plans 20GB Portable Drives · · Score: 1

    The PhatNoise car mp3 player has used this system for a while to get a hard drive into a car player. The only hard part is getting your hands on a box from the beta release.
    www.phatnoise.com

  17. Re:CVSGui (WinCVS) on Version Control for Documentation? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure WinCVS is ready for non-technical use yet. I'm having a hard enough time getting 5 Windows programmers to use it. Getting marketing to use it has got to be impossible.

  18. Re:Feel free to surf on my wireless on Free Wireless For Fun And / Or No Profit · · Score: 1

    I've been at that corner before. I really could have used a WAP close to highway 17 when I wast stuck in traffic every day on the way to high school.

  19. Scour always supported Linux on Napster Traffic Drops · · Score: 1

    Scour was shutdown a few months ago as part of bankruptcy proceedings. However, as a founder, I always made sure that Scour was accessible from Linux, usually through a perl interface. Linux/Perl versions of the Scour Media Agent and Scour Exchange were available at the same time as their Windows counterparts.

  20. Solaris x86 on What Debugger Is Best For Multithreaded Apps? · · Score: 1

    I've tried Solaris on x86 just for this reason. I've found that it's hard to install, and has limited hardware support. But once it gets working, it's very nice for multi-threaded programming. The license is free, so you might want to get one copy to try. We just used it to develop, remove the problems from the threaded areas, then run the code on Linux, in essense it's just another debugging tool for our Linux app.

  21. Re:Buy this, don't build it. You will save grief. on Storage Area Network Solutions? · · Score: 1

    I'll second that. We've got a NetApp and Digital (Compaq?) StorageWorks array. It's definately worth the money to buy these. The Sun vs. Alpha argument is always fun also!

  22. Re:This goes to show... on RIAA Sues MP3.com · · Score: 1

    You're not going to keep the quality of the DVD for close to $20 worth of hard drive space. That's why DeCSS is impractical as a pirating tool, it's cheaper to just by the DVD!

  23. They've been doing this for a LONG time on Xig Ad Campaign Slamming Xfree? · · Score: 1

    Look in past issues of Linux Journal, you'll see many similar ads from XiG trashing XFree.

  24. Re:huh? on Intercepting the Reset Button · · Score: 1

    All of the time I see the console lock, the computer is still up, and available over the network. Just X hung the display or something. You could do a clean restart by logging in over the net and running restart. Now, if you don't have any daemons running, you're SOL and would want a contraption like this.

  25. Re:UCLA, unbiased? on Generation-long Internet Research Project Funded · · Score: 1

    Yes, it really is sad when our NT/ASP based Schedule of classes goes down. At least our core servers run AIX and Solaris. And the Computer Science research projects mostly use Linux and FreeBSD.