Channeling changing via Firewire or serial connections is pretty trivial to setup with Myth, additionally it now supports the hauppauge HD-PVR which records HD h.264 video from the component out of an STB, bypassing any restrictions on the firewire port that some cable companies implement.
I don't have the HD-PVR but I can currently record 80%+ of the non-premium HD channels using Myth with comcast in SF.
Kevin Rose's blog post
"But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."
I do agree the most people when talking about their dislike of the MPAA/RIAA are really talking about wanting to dl songs or music for free. However I also believe that if it were not for the circumvention of various DRM technologies and downloadable media those same people would find themselves running into the inability to listen/watch the media in the format or screen of their choice. Then would then find themselves hating the {MP|RI}AA for the more "legitimate" reason of hindering their ability to enjoy a product that they paid for.
There was an article about this in the last issue of Make http://makezine.com/06/platform/ (subscription required to view the article)
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I currently use speakeasy's VOIP for my home phone. I have their OneLink package, so I have no POTS line from SBC. I find the quality very good, and their QoS seems to work very well.
I'm pretty confident that they don't run the calls outside of their network, but maybe my trust in them is too far reaching? I'm not sure what that means in terms of security though. Granted for a pure TCP/IP hack you'd have to get into their network, but at some point at the other end it has to leave their network and go across the telco's lines.
The article states:
the guys at MythTV seem to have responded well, posting a rare interim release (MythTV 0.18.1) to avail all its users of the new functionality.
This isn't quite true, the 0.18.1 branch was an undertaking by the myth developers to have a stable branch of myth with fixes backported to it from CVS, it wasn't created just to enable LxMSuite, although LxMSuite was incorperated into it.
I wish there were more comments from developers about this in the users list. I think the lack of comment from Issac has kept a lot of people away. Is he waiting to see how it goes before publicly endorsing it?
I know most of the devs don't keep up on the users list, but it's a shame that aside from yourself and Donavan no core developers made any comments.
Along the same lines, a new company LxM Media http://lxmsuite.com/ has started up. They will be offering data services for MythTv http://mythtv.org/ as well as paying the Myth developers.
From what I undstand, you pay $5/month, and you get bounty points to spend durring the month by putting them towards a specific feature or plugin. They will then pay the myth developer who implements the most popular function.
No, it is still on.16 CVS is quite stable righ now as well, so I would expect.17 to comeout sometime soon, but there isn't a.18, the article is wrong (shocking I know)
well the faq is gone, replaced by: OWNED BY YOGI! MOUAHAHAHAHAH
You fucker steal artists !
REAL FAQs ARE HERE AND HERE
Greetz to : b, th*m*r[ChezLeCoiffeur], Croc-La-Pute
FREE TORRENTS HERE
---------------------- with links to riaa and mpaa documents.. anyone want to post what the faq originally contained? going to http://www.silentdragz.net/ now lets you browse all the directorys... joy
well the calls were routed to 311, so the calls got answered, just maybe not as quickly. Yes this sucks, but the calls didn't go nowhere.
Re:I've been playing infinite games for years.
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Ahhh nethack, now there is a game that never ends, just when you think you've seen everything you fall through a trap door into an entirely new type of level. Why can't we have more games like that, I mean the gui versions suck, but good old ascii art still rings true for me.
I support a couple hundred users with IBM 600s, they all have terrible batteries. In fact I have a stack of bad batteries sitting on my desk. Avg life of them is 15 - 20 minutes. I've gotten new batteries and they seem to last about 6 months before going down the drain.
Not to get too off topic but damn that is racist. You are correct that "gyp" comes from gypsie, or roma. But that stereotype of them is like saying that Jews have lots of money and are bankers and swindlers.
I work for a company which has a large number of PCs both internally and at client sites (200k+). many of these machines have fujitsu hard drives. We were actually informed from Compaq (at the time) that there were problems with the drives. While we haven't actively replaced them we do replace the fujitsu drives when ever we come across them
Nice to actually be able to use the internet for something other then pr0n. Okay, granted I use it for many other things too.
I did drop out of college, but it wasn't because I didn't want to learn, rather I just couldn't stand the timing. Finally I'll be able to learn what I want, when I want.
So when will the design lasers that have a misty cloud that surround the beam, and which also travel at the speed of light. That was you could actually see it. Of course to be totally sci-fi one would have to slow down the speed of light to about 1000MPH and then you could actually watch the beam "fly" through the air.
Maybe they will start deciding at birth what people will do with their lives. I can see it now, they kill the kids whom they think will cause problems in the future, and give everyone else their life's salary when they turn 18. Complete predetermination.
It seems to me that the people working on the project may think that everything will work out when LEC sees it their way.... And maybe it will. But I don't see that as a definite outcome, just because you "know" that what you are doing is legal doesn't mean that LEC won't come after you. I (like others) would like to think that LEC is a good company, and the fact that these programmers have spent all this time working on something only to be used for LEC games leads me to belive that they think pretty highly of Lucas Arts. I just hope they are right and LEC doesn't go and pull a "blizzard" on them.
I do see this as having some use. While a firewall can be usefull for protecting from attack from outside, what about attacks from inside. What happens if a user brings in a worm on a floppy that goes after all the machines on the network. The best configured firewall on the between your network and the internet wont help you. Having a firewall protecting each PC could help prevent infection through out the whole lan. Just my $.02
When DCMA first came out, I was worried, but I didn't think that large companies would really use it that much. Anyone know if this is wide spread yet, or are companies (like nintendo) only going after a small number of distributors, hoping that the other ones get scared?
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Channeling changing via Firewire or serial connections is pretty trivial to setup with Myth, additionally it now supports the hauppauge HD-PVR which records HD h.264 video from the component out of an STB, bypassing any restrictions on the firewire port that some cable companies implement. I don't have the HD-PVR but I can currently record 80%+ of the non-premium HD channels using Myth with comcast in SF.
Kevin Rose's blog post
"But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."
I do agree the most people when talking about their dislike of the MPAA/RIAA are really talking about wanting to dl songs or music for free. However I also believe that if it were not for the circumvention of various DRM technologies and downloadable media those same people would find themselves running into the inability to listen/watch the media in the format or screen of their choice. Then would then find themselves hating the {MP|RI}AA for the more "legitimate" reason of hindering their ability to enjoy a product that they paid for.
There was an article about this in the last issue of Make
http://makezine.com/06/platform/ (subscription required to view the article)
I currently use speakeasy's VOIP for my home phone. I have their OneLink package, so I have no POTS line from SBC. I find the quality very good, and their QoS seems to work very well.
I'm pretty confident that they don't run the calls outside of their network, but maybe my trust in them is too far reaching? I'm not sure what that means in terms of security though. Granted for a pure TCP/IP hack you'd have to get into their network, but at some point at the other end it has to leave their network and go across the telco's lines.
The article states: the guys at MythTV seem to have responded well, posting a rare interim release (MythTV 0.18.1) to avail all its users of the new functionality. This isn't quite true, the 0.18.1 branch was an undertaking by the myth developers to have a stable branch of myth with fixes backported to it from CVS, it wasn't created just to enable LxMSuite, although LxMSuite was incorperated into it.
I wish there were more comments from developers about this in the users list. I think the lack of comment from Issac has kept a lot of people away. Is he waiting to see how it goes before publicly endorsing it? I know most of the devs don't keep up on the users list, but it's a shame that aside from yourself and Donavan no core developers made any comments.
Along the same lines, a new company LxM Media http://lxmsuite.com/ has started up. They will be offering data services for MythTv http://mythtv.org/ as well as paying the Myth developers. From what I undstand, you pay $5/month, and you get bounty points to spend durring the month by putting them towards a specific feature or plugin. They will then pay the myth developer who implements the most popular function.
No, it is still on .16 .17 to comeout sometime soon, but there isn't a .18, the article is wrong (shocking I know)
CVS is quite stable righ now as well, so I would expect
Whoops, guess I should have check the source. I like the "No, I didn't delete what you typed. SAY THANK YOU. Moron." Thanks for the link
well the faq is gone, replaced by:
OWNED BY YOGI! MOUAHAHAHAHAH
You fucker steal artists !
REAL FAQs ARE HERE AND HERE
Greetz to : b, th*m*r[ChezLeCoiffeur], Croc-La-Pute
FREE TORRENTS HERE
----------------------
with links to riaa and mpaa documents.. anyone want to post what the faq originally contained?
going to http://www.silentdragz.net/ now lets you browse all the directorys... joy
well the calls were routed to 311, so the calls got answered, just maybe not as quickly. Yes this sucks, but the calls didn't go nowhere.
Ahhh nethack, now there is a game that never ends, just when you think you've seen everything you fall through a trap door into an entirely new type of level. Why can't we have more games like that, I mean the gui versions suck, but good old ascii art still rings true for me.
I support a couple hundred users with IBM 600s, they all have terrible batteries. In fact I have a stack of bad batteries sitting on my desk. Avg life of them is 15 - 20 minutes. I've gotten new batteries and they seem to last about 6 months before going down the drain.
Not to get too off topic but damn that is racist. You are correct that "gyp" comes from gypsie, or roma. But that stereotype of them is like saying that Jews have lots of money and are bankers and swindlers.
I work for a company which has a large number of PCs both internally and at client sites (200k+). many of these machines have fujitsu hard drives. We were actually informed from Compaq (at the time) that there were problems with the drives. While we haven't actively replaced them we do replace the fujitsu drives when ever we come across them
Nice to actually be able to use the internet for something other then pr0n. Okay, granted I use it for many other things too. I did drop out of college, but it wasn't because I didn't want to learn, rather I just couldn't stand the timing. Finally I'll be able to learn what I want, when I want.
So when will the design lasers that have a misty cloud that surround the beam, and which also travel at the speed of light. That was you could actually see it. Of course to be totally sci-fi one would have to slow down the speed of light to about 1000MPH and then you could actually watch the beam "fly" through the air.
Maybe they will start deciding at birth what people will do with their lives. I can see it now, they kill the kids whom they think will cause problems in the future, and give everyone else their life's salary when they turn 18. Complete predetermination.
It seems to me that the people working on the project may think that everything will work out when LEC sees it their way.... And maybe it will. But I don't see that as a definite outcome, just because you "know" that what you are doing is legal doesn't mean that LEC won't come after you. I (like others) would like to think that LEC is a good company, and the fact that these programmers have spent all this time working on something only to be used for LEC games leads me to belive that they think pretty highly of Lucas Arts. I just hope they are right and LEC doesn't go and pull a "blizzard" on them.
Umm wouldn't 668 be the next door to the beast seeing as 667 would across the street?
I do see this as having some use. While a firewall can be usefull for protecting from attack from outside, what about attacks from inside. What happens if a user brings in a worm on a floppy that goes after all the machines on the network. The best configured firewall on the between your network and the internet wont help you. Having a firewall protecting each PC could help prevent infection through out the whole lan. Just my $.02
When DCMA first came out, I was worried, but I didn't think that large companies would really use it that much. Anyone know if this is wide spread yet, or are companies (like nintendo) only going after a small number of distributors, hoping that the other ones get scared?