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  1. Re:Meh on No More TV Listings For MythTV Users · · Score: 1

    Check the mythtv wiki for how to manually update channels using the command line tools. I forget which tool actually does it (i don't run mythtv).

  2. Re:Meh on No More TV Listings For MythTV Users · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or you can scrape their free tv listings service, which is not going away.

    See http://zap2xml.110mb.com/ for a perl-based tvlistings.zap2it.com to xmltv scraper which is a drop-in replacement for the labs scraper.

  3. Re:Linux Climatologist on The Linux Weather Forecast · · Score: 1

    agreed

  4. Re:Linux Climatologist on The Linux Weather Forecast · · Score: 0

    I was really hoping for a map, but alas, foiled again. Nobody wants to read a 40 page forecast.

  5. Re:I don't see them replacing crusie missles on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the new year's 3 hour long episode of "Future Weapons" on Discovery Channel had a segment on GPS-guided artillery. They fired it at 16,000 Gs and it hit a target 25 miles away or so within 2 yards. And this was with the shell fired 40 degrees off course. Still not close to the "hundreds of thousands" of Gs the article quoted, though.

  6. Re:We're talking about tubes on New Data Transmission Record — 14 Tbps · · Score: 4, Funny

    but if every vehicle was filled with dvds and hard drives, wouldn't that make the interstate another information super-highway?!

  7. Re:and orb on TiVo to Let Users Record Shows Via Cellphone · · Score: 1

    pc case is in full sight, it looks like a peice of professional audio equipment with a vfd that shows case temperatures, what's recording and free hard drive space (thanks lcdsmartie).

  8. Re:OT on TiVo to Let Users Record Shows Via Cellphone · · Score: 1

    grab a copy of HoTTProxy and install it on a web server someplace. It's perl scripts that emulate a wap gateway. That's what I do.

  9. Re:and orb on TiVo to Let Users Record Shows Via Cellphone · · Score: 1

    unless you change the proxy and then it just uses minutes

  10. Re:and orb on TiVo to Let Users Record Shows Via Cellphone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and beyondtv and sagetv and any other pvr software with a web server. all you have to do is point your mobile web broser at it and schedule for free.

    not to mention all of these packages get guide data for free rather than forcing you to lock in to a monthly plan.

    personally i built an htpc and use beyondtv as a replacement to my series 2 tivo because

    a) i want high resolution output
    b) i don't want to pay monthly fees

  11. Looks like the new iMac could make on Apple Announces Wonderful Toys · · Score: 1

    a great HTPC. With spdif and 4 usb, could easily hook up a few USB television tuners and run mythtv. If i hadn't just built a windows mce htpc, i'd go this route.

  12. P2P sounds great but on Cringely on P2P vs Streaming Data Centers · · Score: 1

    they aren't paying for my cable modem, and my cable modem has a maximum upstream speed of about 45 kilobytes per second. That isn't going to help anyone really. Not to mention, I wouldn't be all that keen on maxing out my upstream just so I could watch American Idol.

    Also, shouldn't they be paying ME to use MY bandwidth?

  13. Re:Prostitutes? on Prostitutes Call for a Ban on GTA · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "They note that the games are a bad influence on children, and might encourage rape and violent behavior towards prostitutes in real life."

    Prostitutes are already dead inside.

  14. Re:*sigh* on Verizon Blesses Phone-As-Modem Plans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but only where EVDO is supported, which, let me tell you, isn't everywhere.

  15. Re:Order... on Space.com's Top 10 Space Movies of All Time · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually, he said he did it for money.

    "dollar signs"

  16. End Game Progression on Ask Questions of the World of Warcraft Team · · Score: 1

    Regarding progression at the end of the game, Blizzard has been quoted as saying "The game begins at Level 60". Current progression seems to only be based on encounter difficulty and not tiered progression, ala Everquest. Is it your desire to contiune this trend or to implement a tiered-based end game?

  17. Wow. on IPv6 for the Linksys WRT54G · · Score: 3, Informative

    OpenWRT has had this for what, a year now?

    ipkg install kernel-ipv6
    modprobe ipv6
    ip tunnel add .... etc

    this isn't news

  18. Re:A suggestion maybe on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 1

    So don't. this doesn't affect you. No one (except maybe your cable company sometime in the future) is forcing you to upgrade to digital cable (which isn't reall digital for most channels) or satellite. This only affects OTA (over the air) transmissions. If you have analog cable, you will continue to get analog cable.

  19. Re:So what it means is on Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors · · Score: 1

    sounds like a teflon coated suit would resist it then :)

  20. So what it means is on Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors · · Score: 3, Funny

    that biodomes will be clean. All the sci-fi movies had moon cities in a giant biodome! Anyone who goes outside and interacts with the dust gets cleaned on the way back in

  21. Re:Good Luck on Enterprise Fans Buy Full-Page Ad In LA Times · · Score: 2, Informative

    I liked how UPN taunts Enterprise fans. Half way through the show they ran an add that said "Enterprise is coming to an end. These are the last episodes!"

    I doubt UPN will uncancel it.

  22. Re:Security Risk on How to Take Over a Train Station · · Score: 1

    it's called 802.11i. Read about it here.

    If you are really curious go find the IEEE standard documentation.

  23. Re:Security Risk on How to Take Over a Train Station · · Score: 1

    Not exactly. WEP is flawed in such a way that given enough encrypted data packets and packets with 'weak' IV's (a field to facilitate the encryption) you can determine the WEP key. WPA, which is the new standard, is vulnerable to a brute force attack when it is set up in 'personal mode', i.e. shared secret and not auth against a RADIUS server.

    802.11[a,b,g] does not have an encryption implementation. The encryption is implemented through WEP, WPA, LEAP, etc. It's an addon.

  24. Re:wireless is insecure? on How to Take Over a Train Station · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nah, this shouldn't be news anyway. When you can get control of the arrival/departure boards and track switch control from your laptop on the wireless, then it will be news. Until then, the title is misleading!

  25. Re:What's a computer? on National PC Recycling Plan Proposed, Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    $10 more for a computer or monitor? Come on guys, thats beer money. Are you really going to let big brother raise your taxes to fund earth-friendly programs? As long as there is oil in our nature preserves, who cares!