[Cialug] OT: Tivo

[Nathan C. Smith]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David l Goodrich [mailto:dlg at dsrw.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:44 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: Tivo
> 
> Now that I'm leaving Des Moines, I'm not sure my opinion counts...
> 
> But shouldn't a LUG be presenting on something GPL like 
> MythTV instead of
> something closed like Tivo?
>   --david

I don't want to pick at nits, but Tivo does run Linux and leverages Linux
and Open Source.  They were one of the early Linux-toaster success stories.
I enjoy a good Tivo hack too.  My personal favorite is downloading the "High
School Musical" movie from our tivo, removing the media key, and then
compressing/shrinking it so it will play on the media card in my daughter's
Nintendo DS.

OTOH.  MythTV rocks.  I *use* it everyday.  Did anyone else see the one
listing service is pulling it's lists.  I have to figure out how to switch
to an alternative, or probably re-install my kmoppmyth.  It will probably be
easier now, but I dread going through the process.  My current Myth setup
has been working for me for several years.

-Nate