None of this is going to hold up in a court of law and the Linux
people who are leading these projects are looking for some serious
trouble should Microsoft and Sony decide to pursue this matter.
Playstation Linux is a product supported and sold by Sony themselves.
This is a pretty useful thing to do for listeners of stations such as Radio 4 here in the UK, which contains scheduled programs of varying genres and very little music.
However, the possibility to do this kind of timeshifting with radio has been available for a good few years now, by means of the computer based digital radio receivers such as the Wavefinder, which have the added bonus that they create direct digital recordings, with no analogue signal used in between.
From reading the forums, it seems that the client is written in Visual Basic, of all things, so it looks like multiplatform support will be a long time coming.
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None of this is going to hold up in a court of law and the Linux people who are leading these projects are looking for some serious trouble should Microsoft and Sony decide to pursue this matter.
Playstation Linux is a product supported and sold by Sony themselves.
This is a pretty useful thing to do for listeners of stations such as Radio 4 here in the UK, which contains scheduled programs of varying genres and very little music.
However, the possibility to do this kind of timeshifting with radio has been available for a good few years now, by means of the computer based digital radio receivers such as the Wavefinder, which have the added bonus that they create direct digital recordings, with no analogue signal used in between.
Especially when you take into account that his version of taking a break from Slashdot involves actually posting a comment to the site...
Its a real shame that there isn't a team developing cool stuff like this for the Playstation 2 Linux.
From reading the forums, it seems that the client is written in Visual Basic, of all things, so it looks like multiplatform support will be a long time coming.
But surely the ideal solution would be for M$ Word to support PDF docs. That would please all users.