I'm pleased to announce the next SLUG meeting. It will be held on the
UNH Campus in Morse hall rm 301, on 12/10/01 at 7pm. Directions can
be found at the following URL: http://www.sr.unh.edu/~rea/morse/
I think Tucker does a great job of describing what he's going to talk
about so here it is in his words. What he doesn't tell you below is
that with a little bit of Linux magic he'll be expanding MadDog's Tivo
to two drives before your very eyes.
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Who Put That Penguin In My Brand Name Consumer Electronics Device?
Presented by Tucker Hurton 12/10/2001.
Linux has finally found its way into the homes of our friends and
families....sneakily, perhaps, but it's happening.
Not too long ago, a device was released to the public which
began changing the way people watch TV. TiVo, Inc released
the "TiVo". A digital VCR which allows for the automated
recording of television shows. It offered the average consumer
an easy to use interface for recording and watching their
favorite tv programs. But for the above average consumer, it
offered much, much more.
The TiVo is based on our favorite operating system, Linux.
The TiVo people have made their kernel changes (PowerPC)
publicly available as well as a set of development tools
for those daring enough to explore and enhance.
This openness has paved the way for a variety of utilities and
enhancements to be developed by the TiVo/Linux community. It
is my intention to demonstrate some of these features to anyone
that is interested in hearing me ramble on. It is rumored that
I will also be demonstrating how to add additional disk capacity
and will also be exhibiting a TiVo with a hacked-in ethernet
card running a web server.
I hope to see everyone there, but if you don't show up
it just means more beer for me (PLEASE NOTE: even if you
do show up, you can't have my beer).
-Tucker
Tucker Hurton works for the University of New Hampshire where
his primary responsibility (as he sees it) is to ridicule and
humiliate his co-workers. He is not married to a supermodel,
nor can he be found gracing the cover of financial magazines.
In the movie "Armageddon (1997)",if you look very closely at
the scene in which the crowd was welcoming back the surviving
shuttle to Earth, you will not see Tucker at all; but thanks
for looking.
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Robert E. Anderson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Programmer phone: (603) 862-3489
UNH Research Computing Center fax: (603) 862-1761
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