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Elmo P. Shagnasty - 16 May 2008 00:24 GMT

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Larry, can your porn tablet do this?

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Craig - 16 May 2008 00:28 GMT

> http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/494658
>
> Larry, can your porn tablet do this?

Dunno about Larry's porn tablet but my n810 does. There are a lot of
apps out there, here's the one I like:
<http://packratstudios.com/index.php/2008/04/25/mythtv-remote-on-your-n800n810/>

hth,
-Craig

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Larry - 16 May 2008 05:25 GMT

>> http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/494658
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> hth,
> -Craig

Craig, have you got the Wii controller running?......(c;

Walk up to an iPhoner standing in line drooling over 3G and say, "Can you
hold my tablet a minute?"

Whip out the Wii controller and play the game for him....hee hee....(c;

Creates a near riot at a crowded pizza joint with beer and stromboli.

Dammit, Maemo! When are we supposed to SLEEP?!

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Larry - 16 May 2008 05:20 GMT

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote in news:elmop-
DF3797.19240615052008@nntp9.usenetserver.com:

> http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/494658
>
> Larry, can your porn tablet do this?

https://garage.maemo.org/search/?
type_of_search=soft&words=remote&Search=Search

I don't know. It's probably embedded in one of these....

The Wii control interface is useless. I still can't beat the damned games
with or without it. It does cause quite a stir in a pizza joint with beer
and stromboli, though. The bonded joystick controller even works!

I don't have a TV so have no use for a Tivo, either. Why would anyone,
except a complete loser, sit in front of one of those huge billboards Cable
TV puts in your living room staring hour after hour at the goddamned spam
that prevents you from seeing just about anything. How stupid to sit and
watch it.

If it got BBC's home channels, I might have one, but American TV is just
like watching the computerized billboard on the interstate.....stupid,
stupid, STUPID!

UPdated all the Windows XP boxes to SP3, tonight. Installing Linux servers
for AOL wastes less time. The boxes went crazy for nearly 2 hours!

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Elmo P. Shagnasty - 16 May 2008 13:13 GMT

> I don't have a TV so have no use for a Tivo, either. Why would anyone,
> except a complete loser, sit in front of one of those huge billboards Cable
> TV puts in your living room staring hour after hour at the goddamned spam
> that prevents you from seeing just about anything. How stupid to sit and
> watch it.

Larry, you've never seen or had a quality DVR.

All I can say is...spam free here for several years now, and never going
back.

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George Kerby - 16 May 2008 15:24 GMT

On 5/16/08 7:13 AM, in article
elmop-B97E9D.08131516052008@nntp9.usenetserver.com, "Elmo P. Shagnasty"
<elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote:

>> I don't have a TV so have no use for a Tivo, either. Why would anyone,
>> except a complete loser, sit in front of one of those huge billboards Cable
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> All I can say is...spam free here for several years now, and never going
> back.

You better explain what "DVR" means to this one.

He is 'special', as they say...

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Larry - 16 May 2008 16:10 GMT

George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote in news:C453035A.690C%
ghost_topper@hotmail.com:

> You better explain what "DVR" means to this one.
>
> He is 'special', as they say...

How many terabytes of DivX will it store? NTFS or what??

Does it have a RAID stack??

Is it Linux??

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Dennis Ferguson - 16 May 2008 18:09 GMT

> George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote in news:C453035A.690C%
> ghost_topper@hotmail.com:
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> Is it Linux??

Mine runs Linux, though it isn't very high quality. On the
other hand it will write the MPEG files out to an external
disk from which I can copy them to Asia and watch programs
I like when I'm there.

Dish Network satellite receivers also run Linux, actually. I
see the Free Software Foundation is changing their license to
stop companies like Dish from preventing you from installing
modified software on their hardware, so it is possible there
will eventually be some good hacks available for Dish Network
receivers.

Dennis Ferguson

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Larry - 16 May 2008 16:08 GMT

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote in news:elmop-
B97E9D.08131516052008@nntp9.usenetserver.com:

> Larry, you've never seen or had a quality DVR.
>
> All I can say is...spam free here for several years now, and never going
> back.

I have 28M MP3 files from Edison's first commercial wax cylinder to
whatever they uploaded yesterday I haven't looked at the download
directory to see what's new.

I have about 28,800 movies from 1895 to again what the bot found last
night I'm probably not interested in.

What the hell do I need a DVR for? I have USENET!....(c;

"Have you seen (put the latest/greatest/hypest new film here."

"That old thing? We watched that last week. It was fair. Have you seen
(put the film that opens in 2 weeks here)?"

I don't trade, give away, post, etc. I'm just one of the millions of
downloaders enjoying the ride and keeping the newsgroup and ISP in
business. Call me all the names you like, by the way. I'm too old to
give a sh.t.

What I find amusing is I've been recording music for my own use (fair use
laws) since I got my first Western Electric steel wire recorder hooked to
the Zenith console. I recorded on steel wire, reel-2-reel tape,
cassettes, 8-tracks, before the technology improved so much. None of us
were "thieves" in those days. That's something new. I also recorded
video on a Sony reel-2-reel, Betamax and VHS. Noone complained. It's
all so silly the computer made us all criminals, simply overnight....

My county library still has racks of DVDs and CDs noone would want to
listen to except a college professor who wants to move back into the
1600s. Why is it a crime for Jo Blo to download the Boston Pops off
Usenet for his own use.....and NOT a crime for Jo Blo to check the same
album out of the library like 500 other people?? It's stupid.

I probably have most all the movies HBO will play...4 YEARS FROM
NOW...OVER AND OVER AND OVER....8 TIMES A DAY. Why do I need a DVR,
again??

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