[Gllug] Bush internet computer

[gllug at uncertainty.org.uk]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:57:25PM +0000, Martyn Drake wrote:
> On 25 Jan 2002 13:37:02 +0000 John Hearns wrote:
> 
> > I just saw a newspaper advert from Time.
> > They are flogging off Bush Family Internet Computers
> > for ten quid this weekend.
> > These are the set-top boxes which allow Net access on
> > a TV.
> > My parents have a Bush TV with similar built-in.
> 
> My sister in-law as one of these as well, but we managed to persaude her
> to get a proper PC in the end.
> 
> > I remember seeing on Alan Cox's diary that Linux
> > might be able to run on these things - IIRC they
> > are ARM based.
> > Might be a fun project for someone with time on their
> > hands (no pun intended).
> 
> Going off in a slightly different tangent - has anybody here played with
> the guts of a UK Tivo box yet (which runs Linux on a 50Mhz PPC)?  I've got
> one of these (which is working very well except the bloody thing's clock
> keeps going out of synch way too often for my liking and even with the
> daily updates it doesn't solve it completely - I would like to install a
> wireless ethernet card and then get it to a time synch with my desktop PC
> one of these days).
>

have you seen the Tivo hacking FAQ ??

http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=index 


I wsa very intersted in the Tivo a while ago - but now I'm more
interested in the http://www.linuxtv.org/ project ...

especially as linux support for the Hapguage terrestial digital card is
now in existance (looks early beta though)

This way you get to record stuff to CD, and no privacy issues (not keen
on a marketing company getting my TV viewing habits)

as for the listsings download - that is perfect for a dmoz style project :)

-- 

Sean

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