Love 'The BBC ona Stick'. /. is having fun with this one. http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS7625324099.html " USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps": http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/27/2310234
Nico M 2009/4/26 Ant Miller <ant.mil...@gmail.com>: > On the subject of bootsticks (and yet changing the subject slightly to > avoid any further potentially incriminating asides!) we kicked around > the idea of 'The BBC ona Stick' a few years ago- a Bootable USB drive > running a custom Linux install (BeeBuntu!?) with an integrated DTV > tuner. The whole thing would look like a slightly fatter version of > the Haupage USB tv tuners. As an idea it had a host of wonderful > benefits, and almost as many potential drawbacks- delivering OS > environments to the masses, getting extended use out of older PCs, > potentially further energising the OS development community, allowing > integration of TV and internet platforms far earlier, and with the > potential for far more flexible exploitation, than.. um, you know, > other stuff that might happen. > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/