has everything needed to schedule playback or develop a custom kiosk interface (tivo's have a tcl interpreter that interfaces with the recording database, easy enough to port perl or php if that's your preference though)
ok, lets think about this for a minute - 18 million email is too difficult to analyze
the folks that supposedly wrote the freaking OPERATING SYSTEM can't even whip up a few scripts to analyze 18 million msgs?
the suits who employ the folks that supposedly wrote the freaking OPERATING SYSTEM can't be BOTHERED to hire a geek (or two) capable of whipping up a few scripts to analyze 18 million msgs?
maybe the cable/sat companies can tell what YOU're watching, but not me or any of my technically inclined friends
truth be told, our settop devices generally upload bogus data that bolsters shows/channels we like - my logs indicate lots of PBS even though it's hardly ever actually on
sometimes we upload data that indicates what was actually watched. gotta wonder what the marketing dept thinks when a south texas cablebox reports accurate episode info for british Dr Who or german Stargate...;-)
bring your own mouse/kb/mon/peripherals (hope for good drivers or buy apple certified devices)
anti-virus utils in rom (crypto verifies a signed kernel to prevent rootkits) + included with os
OS-X with a year's worth of updates for os + antivirus with subsequent monthly / yearly subs avail
$499
even starving college students could afford one - they'd sell faster than Apple could build 'em.
Dell, HP & Gateway could do HP-ipod style licensing so Apple gets paid w/o having to invest in massive manufacturing capacity (just gotta keep a close eye on licensee quality control). folks would KNOW that any box with an Apple sticker is rock solid (dude, I got an Apple-Dell!) and businesses could rely on good hardware with excellent support
bigger/faster macs would of course be more expensive, but Apple could start taking some real marketshare
this just in - free sw authors don't allways take the trouble to idiotproof
your statement is true-ish if you stick to basic api's (think win 3.x or 95) but it's really more of a hardware problem - that nut loose behind the keyboard - poor programming practices pathetic packages
maybe you should stick to precompiled packages, learn to love knoppix, or get a mac?
so some source don't automagically build perfectly on your particular *nix config??? I am shocked! what's the world coming to??? those authors should be shot for providing defective source.
thankfully that's not so much a problem in the win-verse where you generally can't even GET source
no wood involved, still was built in/around a mud-brick oven that burned dried corn stalks or hay. moving bricks around to open/close passages let it double as a lead melter / blacksmith furnace when fired with coal or coke, or function as a fast cycle high capacity water heater (think they stopped actually using it for hot water back in the 50's but that was the "official" explaination when anybody asked if it was a still)
I believe the ethanol concentration was a passive solar config that relied on evaporation in a black cast iron tank and condensation in a flimsy aluminum tank
this stuff isn't rocket science, any competent blacksmith can build a practical biomas -> ethanol system. is it so hard to believe industry might be able to do the same? (whoops, think I just found the fatal flaw in my thinking!)
dunno whether to laugh or cry when I see these idiotic analysis
granddaddy used to grow a few acres of corn 'n such just to keep busy. grandma boiled the ears, removed the edible with a butter knife & the cobs went in with the other vegtable waste.
with a homebuilt still and VERY LITTLE extra work granddaddy produced a couple hundred gallons of ethanol a year. he mixed it about 1:1 with regular leaded gas & ran the tractor, his pickup, grandma's sedan and the school bus he drove
it's nice to know the eggheads are thinking about this stuff, but if want to know whether something is practical ask somebody that lives in the real world
1) been running darwin on x86 hardware for a while now
2) been running darwin on x86 hardware for a while now, os-x is nice if a 'lil sluggish under emulation
3) been running darwin on x86 hardware for a while now, really couldn't care less about os-x, plenty of gui's to choose from
4) been running os-x on x86 hardware for a while now because I just coulnd't resist the geek factor of building an OS-XBox (yes xbox+darwin+ppc-emu works, not very practical but great for dropping jaws)
you have NINE lexmark color print/scan/copy/fax units (42xx) because the whole thing (with carts) is cheaper than a new black cart
otoh
gotta love Target's electronic's department. when they clearance they don't fsck around. not crazy 'bout lexmark but a standalone color/fax/copier for $25 is hard to pass up
plain old car angines are doing good to extract 25% of the energy from their fuel, power plants do much better - assuming they're not managed by short sighted morons
utils running multimillion dollar elec plants are going to do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to get the best effeciency - those tons and tons and tons of coal are relatively cheap, but over time it adds up and up and up
if you don't think a "naked" xp box will become infested quickly that's your perogitive. hopefully you aren't in any sort of IT support position where others will suffer from your delusions and lack of real world experience.
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>Ricky Gervais Show will cost $7 a month starting next week...
how thoughtfull, many don't bother to give two weeks notice when they quit
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum - a tivo development forum
has everything needed to schedule playback or develop a custom kiosk interface (tivo's have a tcl interpreter that interfaces with the recording database, easy enough to port perl or php if that's your preference though)
from the "can't let this pass unchallenged" dept
so lesse, tivo's don't come with anime kiosk sw by default? I am SHOCKED!!!
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seriously, google is your friend here
it's as easy to add scheduled playback (+filler) to a tivo as a standard linux distro - MUCH less effort than that guy invested
but to know that you might have to actually know something about TiVos, much easier to just spout halfbaked opinions as fact...
ok, lets think about this for a minute - 18 million email is too difficult to analyze
the folks that supposedly wrote the freaking OPERATING SYSTEM can't even whip up a few scripts to analyze 18 million msgs?
the suits who employ the folks that supposedly wrote the freaking OPERATING SYSTEM can't be BOTHERED to hire a geek (or two) capable of whipping up a few scripts to analyze 18 million msgs?
no WONDER windows security is non-existant...
maybe the cable/sat companies can tell what YOU're watching, but not me or any of my technically inclined friends
;-)
truth be told, our settop devices generally upload bogus data that bolsters shows/channels we like - my logs indicate lots of PBS even though it's hardly ever actually on
sometimes we upload data that indicates what was actually watched. gotta wonder what the marketing dept thinks when a south texas cablebox reports accurate episode info for british Dr Who or german Stargate...
possible featureset:
2ghz P4
256 ram, 40G hd
bring your own mouse/kb/mon/peripherals (hope for good drivers or buy apple certified devices)
anti-virus utils in rom (crypto verifies a signed kernel to prevent rootkits) + included with os
OS-X with a year's worth of updates for os + antivirus with subsequent monthly / yearly subs avail
$499
even starving college students could afford one - they'd sell faster than Apple could build 'em.
Dell, HP & Gateway could do HP-ipod style licensing so Apple gets paid w/o having to invest in massive manufacturing capacity (just gotta keep a close eye on licensee quality control). folks would KNOW that any box with an Apple sticker is rock solid (dude, I got an Apple-Dell!) and businesses could rely on good hardware with excellent support
bigger/faster macs would of course be more expensive, but Apple could start taking some real marketshare
ages ago,
/. last fall...
/ 06/1321243&tid=222&tid=203&tid=179&tid=211
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ranma1/mac_install.html
shoot, was even mentioned here on
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10
oy jeez
this just in - free sw authors don't allways take the trouble to idiotproof
your statement is true-ish if you stick to basic api's (think win 3.x or 95) but it's really more of a hardware problem - that nut loose behind the keyboard - poor programming practices pathetic packages
BZZZZZZZZT! too bad, thanks for playing
maybe you should stick to precompiled packages, learn to love knoppix, or get a mac?
so some source don't automagically build perfectly on your particular *nix config??? I am shocked! what's the world coming to??? those authors should be shot for providing defective source.
thankfully that's not so much a problem in the win-verse where you generally can't even GET source
no wood involved, still was built in/around a mud-brick oven that burned dried corn stalks or hay. moving bricks around to open/close passages let it double as a lead melter / blacksmith furnace when fired with coal or coke, or function as a fast cycle high capacity water heater (think they stopped actually using it for hot water back in the 50's but that was the "official" explaination when anybody asked if it was a still)
I believe the ethanol concentration was a passive solar config that relied on evaporation in a black cast iron tank and condensation in a flimsy aluminum tank
this stuff isn't rocket science, any competent blacksmith can build a practical biomas -> ethanol system. is it so hard to believe industry might be able to do the same? (whoops, think I just found the fatal flaw in my thinking!)
dunno whether to laugh or cry when I see these idiotic analysis
granddaddy used to grow a few acres of corn 'n such just to keep busy. grandma boiled the ears, removed the edible with a butter knife & the cobs went in with the other vegtable waste.
with a homebuilt still and VERY LITTLE extra work granddaddy produced a couple hundred gallons of ethanol a year. he mixed it about 1:1 with regular leaded gas & ran the tractor, his pickup, grandma's sedan and the school bus he drove
it's nice to know the eggheads are thinking about this stuff, but if want to know whether something is practical ask somebody that lives in the real world
--
Riley
you forgot a couple of options:
1) been running darwin on x86 hardware for a while now
2) been running darwin on x86 hardware for a while now, os-x is nice if a 'lil sluggish under emulation
3) been running darwin on x86 hardware for a while now, really couldn't care less about os-x, plenty of gui's to choose from
4) been running os-x on x86 hardware for a while now because I just coulnd't resist the geek factor of building an OS-XBox (yes xbox+darwin+ppc-emu works, not very practical but great for dropping jaws)
you have NINE lexmark color print/scan/copy/fax units (42xx) because the whole thing (with carts) is cheaper than a new black cart
otoh
gotta love Target's electronic's department. when they clearance they don't fsck around. not crazy 'bout lexmark but a standalone color/fax/copier for $25 is hard to pass up
those uber-compression algorithms have existed since the 1700's, no need to invent anything
they just require more number crunching than the fastest supercomputers could provide in the lifetime of the universe
*course, every once in a while a math geek pulls a rabit out of a hat and next thing you know the imposibble is $19.95 at radio shack
get a clue
plain old car angines are doing good to extract 25% of the energy from their fuel, power plants do much better - assuming they're not managed by short sighted morons
utils running multimillion dollar elec plants are going to do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to get the best effeciency - those tons and tons and tons of coal are relatively cheap, but over time it adds up and up and up
sigh
Seminal seems to think a service pack'd / firewall'd box is safe, that's just not so
folks are allways finding new holes, thus new service packs and patches are developed
10 mins might be statisticly improbable but it's certainly possible - just means the worms are more current than the updates
*don'tcha love how sp2 re-opened holes that were closed back in w95?
quite comparing apples and oranges. w2k != xp
if you don't think a "naked" xp box will become infested quickly that's your perogitive. hopefully you aren't in any sort of IT support position where others will suffer from your delusions and lack of real world experience.
they dissapear w/o a trace, except for the $299 "buy it now" mac mini ebay listing (qty 5,000)
*wonder if co-lo xbox condo's are marketable. $150/unit + softmod + gentoo...
1) you can get it in australia
c 2c off=1&q=tivo+australia&spell=1
2) you're just not that bright?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&
...and in other "news" - smart guy restates the obvious
*captain redundant strikes again
dumpster bait Pentium / K5 / K6 / Athlon / Duron: $50 tops (check your closet)
knoppix iso: free
speakers, printer , keyboard, laser mouse + NICE 17" monitor: $100 tops at pc swap meet or write it off as an excuse to buy yourself someting new
afternoon spent setting it all up: clear conscience
total cost: less than $200
ZERO virus / registry problems, ssh / VLC for config/support issues, ability to say "granny runs linux": priceless!!!
*this type config is also handy if your significant other isn't a geek.