Re: TiVo and VoIP (Was: Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?)

2005-12-13 Thread Travis Roy
I added their cache card to my S1 DTiVo and have no trouble with it... someone said it requires more 'hacking' than others... I would say it was all pretty easy. At the same time.. I replaced the 40G with a 120G drive.. put in the network/cache card and 512 of ram.. and installed the web server

Re: December MerriLUG meeting [12/15/2005]

2005-12-13 Thread Ted Roche
On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:27 PM, Ben Scott wrote: Indeed. I've been to my mind once or twice; it's a scary place. Yeah, but I've been out of my mind once or twice, and that's pretty scary, too. Ken: RSVP! Looking forward to the meeting. ___

PAM module development question

2005-12-13 Thread Christopher Chisholm
Hi All, I'm having an issue with a PAM-aware authentication module I've written, but only in x64 versions of Linux. I will attempt to explain in detail our issue regarding PAM and x64 Linux distros. Our product in Java needs to authenticate based on OS users. To accomplish this, we

Re: TiVo and VoIP (Was: Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?)

2005-12-13 Thread John Abreau
Travis Roy wrote: Right, I don't really see the point of any kind of connection for a S1 DTiVo.. It's not used for guide data, you still can't order PPV via the remote, and there's no HMO for S1 TiVo's of any kind. Without the network card, I don't know how I'd be able to use the tivoweb

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:31:34PM -0500, mike ledoux wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:42:40PM -0500, Jeff Macdonald wrote: On 12/12/05, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Ben Caveat Emptor Scott Oh, if you own a TiVo Series 1, do your homework before dumping your landline

Re: Running Fedora Core under a virtual machine

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:41:18PM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: I want to test out the FC5 test 1 without trashing my existing installation, which leads me to using a virual machine of some sort. I'm currently running FC4. I know of the following: VMWare 4: Can't find virtual disk I got

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Tyson Sawyer
Mark Komarinski wrote: Tivo2Go is really nice too. Along with the HME apps like Galleon. Anyone get that to work with Linux? ...its the only OS in our house. Cheers! Ty -- Tyson D Sawyer 46CM '85 Reynard 85F The Red Headed Stepchild 118AM '72 Tui Super-V 2002 37DS '98 Neon ACR

Re: PAM module development question

2005-12-13 Thread Thomas Charron
Configuration documentation can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.htmlapplication developers (using PAM) can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam_appl.html These include example sources to reference, etc. For your

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:08:54PM -0500, mike ledoux wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:47:15AM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:31:34PM -0500, mike ledoux wrote: Roughly $70 solves the problem forever, just plug the TiVo into your home network:

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:02:04AM -0500, Tyson Sawyer wrote: Mark Komarinski wrote: Tivo2Go is really nice too. Along with the HME apps like Galleon. Anyone get that to work with Linux? ...its the only OS in our house. Yes. More recent versions are a lot better to get running even on

DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS

2005-12-13 Thread Star
Well, in the run up to the apparently much anticipated disucussion this week on DNS/BIND and all things namey related, I pose this question:Does anyone know of or have access to any studies or numbers comparing the performance of BIND 9 vs. Windows 200x DNS servers? I'm looking for real study type

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Lussier
mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most likely, my replacement for this TiVo will be a nice MythTV box with a couple of HD tuners, but I probably won't bother until SD broadcasts become unavailable. Do you mean HD in that last sentence? I'm toying with this idea too. I've read a lot of

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:22:02PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most likely, my replacement for this TiVo will be a nice MythTV box with a couple of HD tuners, but I probably won't bother until SD broadcasts become unavailable. Do you mean HD in that

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread fj1200
-- Original message -- From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most likely, my replacement for this TiVo will be a nice MythTV box with a couple of HD tuners, but I probably won't bother until SD broadcasts become

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Travis Roy
I recently looked into creating a MythTV box for HD, but unfortunately, there are no cable-ready receiver cards, so all you can do is receive and record OTA (over the air) HD broadcasts, so if you wanted to record say a Discovery HD program, you are SOL. When WinTV or Hauppage etc come

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Neil Schelly
I recently looked into creating a MythTV box for HD, but unfortunately, there are no cable-ready receiver cards, so all you can do is receive and record OTA (over the air) HD broadcasts, so if you wanted to record say a Discovery HD program, you are SOL. When WinTV or Hauppage etc come out with

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Travis Roy
Why wouldn't this work? http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html Does that only tune OTA broadcasts? Correct, that is only OTA broadcasts. The problem is that HD on any cable or sat system is scrambled, so you would need to descramble the channel in order to record it. You can't do that with the

Re: TiVo and VoIP (Was: Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?)

2005-12-13 Thread Tom Buskey
On 12/13/05, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without the network card, I don't know how I'd be able to use thetivoweb server on my S1 tivo.Sometimes I wish I could do this with my S2 TiVoTravis Roy wrote: Right, I don't really see the point of any kind of connection for a S1 DTiVo.. It's not

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread fj1200
-- Original message -- From: Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recently looked into creating a MythTV box for HD, snip make my own PVR. MythTV has support for recording from, and controlling cable boxes, via Firewire, including HD. This is of

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 13, 2005, at 16:51, Travis Roy wrote: The problem is that HD on any cable or sat system is scrambled, so you would need to descramble the channel in order to record it. You can't do that with the cards out on the market. I took a look once at doing this for my Dish Network service

DTV, SD, ED, HD, NTSC, ATSC, TMA (was: Voip teleophony)

2005-12-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 12/13/05, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there an intermediate format known as SD which is a digital broadcast that has the same resolution as an analog broadcast? The TV broadcast system the US has been using for decades is NTSC, which is a fairly ancient, analog standard. We

Re: DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS

2005-12-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 12/13/05, Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My company is primarily a windows shop. Keep in mind that forcing nix down the throats of doze people rarely turns out well, and sometimes harms the reputation of nix. And as far as performance goes, cost of administration almost always far exceeds

Re: TiVo and VoIP (Was: Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?)

2005-12-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 12/13/05, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/13/05, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without the network card, I don't know how I'd be able to use the tivoweb server on my S1 tivo. Sometimes I wish I could do this with my S2 TiVo I got a question on this. I've seen claims

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On 12/13/05, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tivo2Go is really nice too. Along with the HME apps like Galleon. Now if only I could get it to find my SlimServer... ditto I'm working on a side project at home - I call it TiVoCast. The general idea is to marry Buffalo's LinkServer

Re: TiVo and VoIP (Was: Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?)

2005-12-13 Thread Travis Roy
I got a question on this. I've seen claims that Series 2 TiVo's cannot be hacked to modify/add software. I've also seen claims that they can, if you use a PC to gain access to the hard disks first and insert a suitable back door. Anyone have any trustworthy information on the subject?

Re: DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS

2005-12-13 Thread Star
Is the real issue managing BIND, or is the real issue that everybody there hates nix, and BIND management is just the latest excuse to get rid of nix?Currently, it's some of each. There is definately a fear of using something that's not understood. It's not so much a matter of trying to force

Re: DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS

2005-12-13 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
If you've already got BIND servers that work and you're just looking for a way to administer it with a pretty interface, rather than editing BIND configuration files, check out ProBIND. I recently set that up at a Windows show that already had BIND/Linux servers that most of the staff hated to

Re: DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS

2005-12-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 13, 2005, at 18:26, Star wrote: don't get me going on the webmin conversation Well, now you've piqued my interest - webmin sounds tailor-made for the problem at hand - you could land them in a screen that would only let them configure Bind. There's also this windows GUI version of