Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Bill Stewart wrote: At 11:38 PM 12/06/2002 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: You should have tried this back in the late 80's with a single frame VHS recorder and an Amiga Video Toaster...one frame at a time, thank god for AREXX ;) If you were actually using the Video Toaster,

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jamie Lawrence wrote: On Sat, 07 Dec 2002, Lucky Green wrote: It never ceases to amaze me that there are subscribers to this list that don't have Choate filtered. This must be some weird list to read without a Choate procmail filter... Yes, my mistake. I've seen

Not as simple as it looks - Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo(fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Jim Choate
An example from my day yesterday... I have two 'cheap boxes', one from nation wide chain store (who sells things other than high tech and appliances, a wall to wall mart if you will) and one from a local Austin vendor. The behavior was checked against multiple instances of boxes so we know it

RE: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Lucky Green
Jamie Lawrence wrote: Jim, you post enough crap from Slashdot to know differently. People are doing it. I have a whitebox machine (AMD, 256M ram, cheap TV card, 20G disk, $300 a year ago) that does it. It isn't a big deal. Speaking of posting crap...and don't send me private

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:38 PM 12/06/2002 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: You should have tried this back in the late 80's with a single frame VHS recorder and an Amiga Video Toaster...one frame at a time, thank god for AREXX ;) If you were actually using the Video Toaster, and not just the Amiga's CPU, you had what

Not as simple as it looks - Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo(fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Jim Choate
An example from my day yesterday... I have two 'cheap boxes', one from nation wide chain store (who sells things other than high tech and appliances, a wall to wall mart if you will) and one from a local Austin vendor. The behavior was checked against multiple instances of boxes so we know it

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-08 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jamie Lawrence wrote: On Sat, 07 Dec 2002, Lucky Green wrote: It never ceases to amaze me that there are subscribers to this list that don't have Choate filtered. This must be some weird list to read without a Choate procmail filter... Yes, my mistake. I've seen

Re: CDR: Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Sat, 07 Dec 2002, Jim Choate wrote: No, actually, for those of us who live in the real world, it isn't as important as you make it out to be. Uh huh... No comment needed. -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] They [RIAA,MPAA] are trying to invent

RE: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Lucky Green
Jamie Lawrence wrote: Jim, you post enough crap from Slashdot to know differently. People are doing it. I have a whitebox machine (AMD, 256M ram, cheap TV card, 20G disk, $300 a year ago) that does it. It isn't a big deal. Speaking of posting crap...and don't send me private

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:38 PM 12/06/2002 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: You should have tried this back in the late 80's with a single frame VHS recorder and an Amiga Video Toaster...one frame at a time, thank god for AREXX ;) If you were actually using the Video Toaster, and not just the Amiga's CPU, you had what

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Sat, 07 Dec 2002, Lucky Green wrote: It never ceases to amaze me that there are subscribers to this list that don't have Choate filtered. This must be some weird list to read without a Choate procmail filter... Yes, my mistake. I've seen Choate devolve from a strange actor to a net.loon,

Re: CDR: Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jamie Lawrence wrote: Don't worry about me sending private email in the future... You're not only a complete idiot, but you're rude as fuck as well. That's funny. No, actually, for those of us who live in the real world, it isn't as important as you make it out to be.

Re: CDR: Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Jim Choate wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Some poser wrote: Jim, you post enough crap from Slashdot to know differently. People are doing it. I have a whitebox machine (AMD, 256M ram, cheap TV card, 20G disk, $300 a year ago) that does it. It isn't a big deal.

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Some poser wrote: Jim, you post enough crap from Slashdot to know differently. People are doing it. I have a whitebox machine (AMD, 256M ram, cheap TV card, 20G disk, $300 a year ago) that does it. It isn't a big deal. Speaking of posting crap...and don't send me private

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote: Of course, you could do this yourself with a $199 microtel box from walmart and linux. Then you'd just have to add a $30 tv in card. On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:48:44PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:

Re: CDR: Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Sat, 07 Dec 2002, Jim Choate wrote: No, actually, for those of us who live in the real world, it isn't as important as you make it out to be. Uh huh... No comment needed. -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] They [RIAA,MPAA] are trying to invent

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote: Of course, you could do this yourself with a $199 microtel box from walmart and linux. Then you'd just have to add a $30 tv in card. On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:48:44PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Some poser wrote: Jim, you post enough crap from Slashdot to know differently. People are doing it. I have a whitebox machine (AMD, 256M ram, cheap TV card, 20G disk, $300 a year ago) that does it. It isn't a big deal. Speaking of posting crap...and don't send me private

Re: CDR: Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Jim Choate wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Some poser wrote: Jim, you post enough crap from Slashdot to know differently. People are doing it. I have a whitebox machine (AMD, 256M ram, cheap TV card, 20G disk, $300 a year ago) that does it. It isn't a big deal.

Re: CDR: Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jamie Lawrence wrote: Don't worry about me sending private email in the future... You're not only a complete idiot, but you're rude as fuck as well. That's funny. No, actually, for those of us who live in the real world, it isn't as important as you make it out to be.

Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-05 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,692134,00.asp -- We don't see things as they are, [EMAIL PROTECTED] we see them as we are. www.ssz.com

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Cardenas
Of course, you could do this yourself with a $199 microtel box from walmart and linux. Then you'd just have to add a $30 tv in card. On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:48:44PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,692134,00.asp We don't see things as they are,

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Cardenas
Of course, you could do this yourself with a $199 microtel box from walmart and linux. Then you'd just have to add a $30 tv in card. On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:48:44PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,692134,00.asp We don't see things as they are,