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 <[email protected]>:
> 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.
>
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