Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:22:34 -0500 From: Robert Anderson Subject: SLUG meeting 12/10/01 Tivo Behind the Curtain 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- Robert E. Anderson email: rea@sr.unh.edu Systems Programmer phone: (603) 862-3489 UNH Research Computing Center fax: (603) 862-1761 -------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to majordomo@zk3.dec.com with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug-announce **********************************************************