The 320 hour capacity is using the highest compression setting, or the worst quality. Using Best Quality is going to result in a very small fraction of that 320 hours, probably around the 100 hour target you mentioned. I've got a 100 hour TiVo and I've had it pretty close to maxed-out several times since I am storing a Godfather marathon from one of the movie channels and a few other non-DVD movies recorded in best quality.
Sure, go ahead and pop your hacked HU card in a DirecTiVo. There are no technical problems that would prevent it from working. Keep in mind that DirecTV and TiVo are sharing all data collected from DirecTiVo boxes (unlike the SA Tivo's), so don't think you'll have your setup active for too long.
Hopefully the continuing bad news for these types of Internet appliances doesn't kill any plans for wireless webpads. There is quite a difference between the two, although I'm afraid that the webpad folks will be hesitant to gamble on their products after seeing the failure of the iOpener and eVilla. I'd much prefer a touchscreen webpad to an appliance of even to a laptop for casual Internet activities from the living room if the price was right. But considering that some of the prices I've seen for these webpads are equal to and in many cases higher than the price of a decent webpad, I'll continue to use my low-end, wireless laptop in my living room to connect to my Citrix server in the basement.
Saying that the FCC approval was pulled makes it sound as if it was denied. This isn't the case, the application approval was just changed from "approved" to "pending". Supposedly, Handspring and Palm both forgot to elect to have these approvals deferred. By deferring the approval, both companies can get their product specs in front of the FCC without having to make it public.
By "OSU" I was meaning the campus area, not something officially endorsed by the university. Surely someone in one of the residence halls is sending some 802.11b to one of their buddies in off-campus housing, or a few of the houses pitched in for a single RR connection. Anything to be able to afford a few more beers each month.
BTW, if you could point me to a way to contact those folks, I'd certainly offer help in getting something started.
Guess I'll finally give up my search for an existing project in Columbus and send a shout out for others in the area (specifically the Dublin/Worthington area) that might be looking to get one of these going. Surely the OSU area has something in place, connecting the suburbs will be another story.
From a command-line in NT/2000/XP, "ipconfig/renew" renews the IP from a DHCP server with no reboot required. Changing a static IP in NT does require a reboot, but 2000 and XP can handle it without the reboot. Can't speak much about command-line options in 9x as I haven't used it in ages, but I do know that changing a static IP in 9x will require a reboot as well.
A TiVo box with a software version earlier than 2.0 can be found for $150-300 (depending on size) and will allow you to do manual recordings. Just don't plug in the phoneline and your software won't be upgraded (2.0 "mistakenly" disables manual recordings without the service, 2.5 is supposed to fix that "mistake"). Old ReplayTV boxes are normally a bit more since they include their service and guide in the price of the unit. A PC solution would also be viable, but you're probably looking at close to the price of the lower-end TiVo's once you figure the price of hard drive, TV card, etc.
For around $500, anyone with decent technical skills can grab a TiVo and 2 80GB harddrives and make their own 245 hour PVR. Toss in a TiVoNet kit for ~$75 and you've got your broadband-enabled PVR. Check the TiVo FAQ for details. Of course you still have to include the service fee, but that hardly justifies the $1500 markup for the Replay device.
This ReplayTV device doesn't stand a chance at the $1999 price, and the TV executives are quoted in the Yahoo article as saying they'll fight the commercial skipping and the ability to share the recordings.
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That type of statement is suprisingly bold for anyone, let alone Gartner, to make. MS is the type of company who as of right now probably knows within +/- 5% what the demand is, what the poor/average/rich person will pay for it, what the average 'early' adopter will pay for it, and what the average late adopter will pay for it.
And the Gartner group isn't that type of company? That's their expertise. If anyone knows the things you stated above, it would be a company such as the Gartner Group, a company whose sole mission it is to know such facts. I will agree that a giant company such as Microsoft *should* also know these facts, but based on some of their past marketing mistakes, it's pretty obvious that in some cases they haven't a clue.
Not that I've done any amount of research, but based on past stories, I believe that Taco is/was in Michigan (Eastern) and the server is in a data center near Boston (also Eastern). I'd say it's a safe bet that "my time" is Eastern.
IIRC, any MS machine that is a non-server OS will only allow 10 network connections, so I'd think that the PWS servie would fall under this limitation.
IRC is a denzien of hackers, pirates and kiddieporn scum.
Sounds just like just about every ignorant Internet critic, RIAA or MPAA member, government official when trying to justify DMCA or some other piece of legislature/censorship. Get a clue, troll. Just like every other area of the Internet, IRC does have its "hackers, pirates, and kiddieporn scum", but it also has a great array of technical resources and general chat areas. I don't know of many other places where I can drop in and get real-time support from peers when trying to chase down a network or OS problem. Hate to burst your bubble, but many people might think of IRC and Usenet to be the bottom of the Internet barrel, I find them to be two of the most useful technical resources I have at my disposal.
Nope, you didn't/. any of those, but you did save me some time in tracking down a CRII-infected server to play with. Seems you can manipulate the files in the \inetpub directory, but very few anywhere else. Making a dir on the desktop didn't work, but their index.asp has been renamed. Hopefully and admin with 1% of a clue is supporting this server.
i had it run "start http://my.ip.address:666", and my firewall detected access from the infected IP, on port 666.. so it did open their browser.
Perhaps we can run this command to open the link to the IIS patch for these idiots. I couldn't fight the curiosity any longer, so I installed a webserver on my box just to watch the logs, and I've gotten well over 100 hits in the past hour and have found quite a few of my fellow RR members have been r00ted. Now if only I could figure out how to embed useful commands in the HTML so I can try to help some of these folks out.
Actually, Tiny Personal Firewall is also free for personal use and is much more customizable for a someone with half a clue. I've tried both and prefer Tiny by far on my Win2k box.
While we're talking conspiracy theories, take a look at Cringely's latest column, where he believes that MS will be leveraging these types of holes to create their own proprietary TCP/IP-like protocol that will be forced down our throats and will receive backing from the government. Sounds a bit far-fetched, but I wouldn't put anything past MS when it comes to them controlling markets that they have their fingers in.
Too bad Palm's stock and cash flow are in the crapper and the company as a whole is really struggling. Maybe MS could buy it with their pocket change and roll-out a Palm.net-type service for CE devices.
I imagine now in addition to the living room cam, bedroom cam, and bathroom cam, they'll have to have a colon cam.
From the article: "The pill won't replace colonoscopies, the exams that check for colon cancer, because the battery doesn't last long enough to get to the large intestine."
Contrary to what Jon stated, the actual knife incident was *not* broadcast on the TV show. The events leading up to that point were shown, but the clip ended just prior to the knife being placed to the throat. Had this event not been shown over the Internet to viewers as it happened, you have to wonder if CBS would have even bothered to boot this contestant. Heck, the other houseguests *still* don't know that this happened as the female involved in the incident hasn't mentioned one word about it to anyone, either because she was so drunk that she doesn't remember it or because she didn't think it was a big deal. In fact, she cried for a few days after this guy was booted because she says that he treated her better than any other guy she's known (she's been married twice). IMO, CBS removed this guy only as damage control knowing that the incident was being broadcast across the Internet and that the media would have a field day with yet another reason to bash the show. And don't think that the Internet broadcast is uncensored. There have been many, many instances where the feed is either cut or switched to a different camera when "controversial" situations arise.
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The 320 hour capacity is using the highest compression setting, or the worst quality. Using Best Quality is going to result in a very small fraction of that 320 hours, probably around the 100 hour target you mentioned. I've got a 100 hour TiVo and I've had it pretty close to maxed-out several times since I am storing a Godfather marathon from one of the movie channels and a few other non-DVD movies recorded in best quality.
Sure, go ahead and pop your hacked HU card in a DirecTiVo. There are no technical problems that would prevent it from working. Keep in mind that DirecTV and TiVo are sharing all data collected from DirecTiVo boxes (unlike the SA Tivo's), so don't think you'll have your setup active for too long.
Hopefully the continuing bad news for these types of Internet appliances doesn't kill any plans for wireless webpads. There is quite a difference between the two, although I'm afraid that the webpad folks will be hesitant to gamble on their products after seeing the failure of the iOpener and eVilla. I'd much prefer a touchscreen webpad to an appliance of even to a laptop for casual Internet activities from the living room if the price was right. But considering that some of the prices I've seen for these webpads are equal to and in many cases higher than the price of a decent webpad, I'll continue to use my low-end, wireless laptop in my living room to connect to my Citrix server in the basement.
Saying that the FCC approval was pulled makes it sound as if it was denied. This isn't the case, the application approval was just changed from "approved" to "pending". Supposedly, Handspring and Palm both forgot to elect to have these approvals deferred. By deferring the approval, both companies can get their product specs in front of the FCC without having to make it public.
BTW, if you could point me to a way to contact those folks, I'd certainly offer help in getting something started.
Guess I'll finally give up my search for an existing project in Columbus and send a shout out for others in the area (specifically the Dublin/Worthington area) that might be looking to get one of these going. Surely the OSU area has something in place, connecting the suburbs will be another story.
How about MAC address restrictions on the wireless bridge/router? Probably still not foolproof, but it would be effective for 99% of the users.
From a command-line in NT/2000/XP, "ipconfig /renew" renews the IP from a DHCP server with no reboot required. Changing a static IP in NT does require a reboot, but 2000 and XP can handle it without the reboot. Can't speak much about command-line options in 9x as I haven't used it in ages, but I do know that changing a static IP in 9x will require a reboot as well.
A TiVo box with a software version earlier than 2.0 can be found for $150-300 (depending on size) and will allow you to do manual recordings. Just don't plug in the phoneline and your software won't be upgraded (2.0 "mistakenly" disables manual recordings without the service, 2.5 is supposed to fix that "mistake"). Old ReplayTV boxes are normally a bit more since they include their service and guide in the price of the unit. A PC solution would also be viable, but you're probably looking at close to the price of the lower-end TiVo's once you figure the price of hard drive, TV card, etc.
This ReplayTV device doesn't stand a chance at the $1999 price, and the TV executives are quoted in the Yahoo article as saying they'll fight the commercial skipping and the ability to share the recordings.
And the Gartner group isn't that type of company? That's their expertise. If anyone knows the things you stated above, it would be a company such as the Gartner Group, a company whose sole mission it is to know such facts. I will agree that a giant company such as Microsoft *should* also know these facts, but based on some of their past marketing mistakes, it's pretty obvious that in some cases they haven't a clue.
Not that I've done any amount of research, but based on past stories, I believe that Taco is/was in Michigan (Eastern) and the server is in a data center near Boston (also Eastern). I'd say it's a safe bet that "my time" is Eastern.
Try http://www.zdnet.com/computerstew/html/0364.html, looks like a parody of "This Old House".
IIRC, any MS machine that is a non-server OS will only allow 10 network connections, so I'd think that the PWS servie would fall under this limitation.
Sounds just like just about every ignorant Internet critic, RIAA or MPAA member, government official when trying to justify DMCA or some other piece of legislature/censorship. Get a clue, troll. Just like every other area of the Internet, IRC does have its "hackers, pirates, and kiddieporn scum", but it also has a great array of technical resources and general chat areas. I don't know of many other places where I can drop in and get real-time support from peers when trying to chase down a network or OS problem. Hate to burst your bubble, but many people might think of IRC and Usenet to be the bottom of the Internet barrel, I find them to be two of the most useful technical resources I have at my disposal.
Nope, you didn't /. any of those, but you did save me some time in tracking down a CRII-infected server to play with. Seems you can manipulate the files in the \inetpub directory, but very few anywhere else. Making a dir on the desktop didn't work, but their index.asp has been renamed. Hopefully and admin with 1% of a clue is supporting this server.
Perhaps we can run this command to open the link to the IIS patch for these idiots. I couldn't fight the curiosity any longer, so I installed a webserver on my box just to watch the logs, and I've gotten well over 100 hits in the past hour and have found quite a few of my fellow RR members have been r00ted. Now if only I could figure out how to embed useful commands in the HTML so I can try to help some of these folks out.
So Larry Flynt is giving away Hustler mags for free now? Didn't think so, just goes to show who is mocking who.
Actually, Tiny Personal Firewall is also free for personal use and is much more customizable for a someone with half a clue. I've tried both and prefer Tiny by far on my Win2k box.
While we're talking conspiracy theories, take a look at Cringely's latest column, where he believes that MS will be leveraging these types of holes to create their own proprietary TCP/IP-like protocol that will be forced down our throats and will receive backing from the government. Sounds a bit far-fetched, but I wouldn't put anything past MS when it comes to them controlling markets that they have their fingers in.
Too bad Palm's stock and cash flow are in the crapper and the company as a whole is really struggling. Maybe MS could buy it with their pocket change and roll-out a Palm.net-type service for CE devices.
From the article: "The pill won't replace colonoscopies, the exams that check for colon cancer, because the battery doesn't last long enough to get to the large intestine."
Was that one of those pop-up messages that was interspersed with all of the licensing legal-ease pop-up messages?
Your forgot Nullsoft, and like someone else mentioned, WCW was purchased by WWF. Good list though, nice to have around for reference.
Contrary to what Jon stated, the actual knife incident was *not* broadcast on the TV show. The events leading up to that point were shown, but the clip ended just prior to the knife being placed to the throat. Had this event not been shown over the Internet to viewers as it happened, you have to wonder if CBS would have even bothered to boot this contestant. Heck, the other houseguests *still* don't know that this happened as the female involved in the incident hasn't mentioned one word about it to anyone, either because she was so drunk that she doesn't remember it or because she didn't think it was a big deal. In fact, she cried for a few days after this guy was booted because she says that he treated her better than any other guy she's known (she's been married twice). IMO, CBS removed this guy only as damage control knowing that the incident was being broadcast across the Internet and that the media would have a field day with yet another reason to bash the show. And don't think that the Internet broadcast is uncensored. There have been many, many instances where the feed is either cut or switched to a different camera when "controversial" situations arise.