[Nottingham] [OT] NTL on demand woes

[Simon]

Yes, they can be used for this purpose as well of slightly naughty
things like stealing cable. The ntl boxes are all based on arm
processors running a custom microkernel and os. I believe the original
pace box could actually run riscos.

On 11/28/06, John <stellafan at jjsh.org> wrote:
> Apparently, according to a bloke in a pub who was talking to my mates
> dog, they can also be set up to stream digital cable tv around your home
> LAN.
>
> Chris Burton wrote:
> >> Not sure about the NTL Pace boxes, but you can import the Nokia ones
> >> from Germany, they run Linux, which leads to all sorts of *ahem*
> >> possibilities.
> >>
> >>
> >> Not that I condone that sort of thing, obviously.
> >
> > Nor me, but the DBOX2 are quite cool (err warm/hot) little linux boxes
> > in an odd form factor :).
> >
> > ChrisB.
> >
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