All you need to use monte-mips to gain access to a particular TiVo software release is any past or present TiVo release with a vulnerability -- it doesn't even have to be the same version that your TiVo is now running.
All existing S2 boxes have at least one software release with the BASH_ENV vulnerability. You just need to get that release installed on the alternate partition, along with monte-mips. Then from now on, boot from the alternate partition and use the BASH_ENV vulnerability to launch the desired release installed on your other partition (but use monte-mips to do this without loading TiVo's initrd image).
This works even if the vulnerable version is 3.x and you're launching into a 4.x version of TiVo software.
Patches for the S2 EEPROM/PROM were released last November.
For those without a way to reprogram the PROM, a version of (two-kernel) monte has also been released. With monte-mips, you can reload any kernel you want by launching it from one of their "secure" kernels with known vulnerabilities.
So there are numerous ways to get into the box. It's just these ways aren't as user-friendly as before.
After this failed, they sent out a signal to ask the main lander to 'raster' it's high gain across a large area of the sky (sending a signal out, then turn 5 degrees, then send another). sooner or later, in theory, the high gain would eventually align itself with earth, and lock on
This seems a little misleading, given that it takes so long (14 mins?) for the radio signals to travel in each direction. So it doesn't seem likely that there'd be quick enough response time for the craft to "align itself" or "lock on" on automatically.
More likely, the JPL engineers would wait to hear something during the sweep, determine what the proper orientation was, and then send an explicit command to the lander to orient its antenna with those coordinates. In other words, JPL would know before the lander if and when the sweep crossed Earth's path.
Nope it can't. It has a single tuner, so it can record only one show at a time. However, you can record a show while your watching a previously-recorded show, which is pretty cool. And you can come in 10 or 20 minutes after a recording has started, and watch it from the beginning while the TiVo records the remaining 10 minutes.
Also, the TiVo doesn't record 24/7. It builds up a profile of what shows you like, and goes off and records them even if you don't ask it to, on a space-available basis. These auto-recorded shows have low priority, though, when deciding which shows to erase to make room for new shows.
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All you need to use monte-mips to gain access to a particular TiVo software release is any past or present TiVo release with a vulnerability -- it doesn't even have to be the same version that your TiVo is now running.
All existing S2 boxes have at least one software release with the BASH_ENV vulnerability. You just need to get that release installed on the alternate partition, along with monte-mips. Then from now on, boot from the alternate partition and use the BASH_ENV vulnerability to launch the desired release installed on your other partition (but use monte-mips to do this without loading TiVo's initrd image).
This works even if the vulnerable version is 3.x and you're launching into a 4.x version of TiVo software.
Patches for the S2 EEPROM/PROM were released last November. For those without a way to reprogram the PROM, a version of (two-kernel) monte has also been released. With monte-mips, you can reload any kernel you want by launching it from one of their "secure" kernels with known vulnerabilities. So there are numerous ways to get into the box. It's just these ways aren't as user-friendly as before.
FWIW, his website is http://adrian.adrian.org
After this failed, they sent out a signal to ask the main lander to 'raster' it's high gain across a large area of the sky (sending a signal out, then turn 5 degrees, then send another). sooner or later, in theory, the high gain would eventually align itself with earth, and lock on
This seems a little misleading, given that it takes so long (14 mins?) for the radio signals to travel in each direction. So it doesn't seem likely that there'd be quick enough response time for the craft to "align itself" or "lock on" on automatically.
More likely, the JPL engineers would wait to hear something during the sweep, determine what the proper orientation was, and then send an explicit command to the lander to orient its antenna with those coordinates. In other words, JPL would know before the lander if and when the sweep crossed Earth's path.
The name of the environment variable that turns off the dns_helper is actually MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS
I think it can record two shows at the same time
Nope it can't. It has a single tuner, so it can record only one show at a time. However, you can record a show while your watching a previously-recorded show, which is pretty cool. And you can come in 10 or 20 minutes after a recording has started, and watch it from the beginning while the TiVo records the remaining 10 minutes.
Also, the TiVo doesn't record 24/7. It builds up a profile of what shows you like, and goes off and records them even if you don't ask it to, on a space-available basis. These auto-recorded shows have low priority, though, when deciding which shows to erase to make room for new shows.