] With so many projects on the web dealing with various
] aspects of creating a Linux PVR, this site's main goal is
] become a central point where people can come and see the
] current state of creating a Linux PVR of their own.

A website that covers the status of various Linux PVR projects.

The Linux PVR Depot

What could be greater entertainment than six monkeys and a computer?

Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare

] Eleven years before that, two cosmonauts overshot their
] touchdown site by 2,000 miles and found themselves deep
] in a forest with hungry wolves. That's when Russian space
] officials decided to pack a sawed-off shotgun aboard
] every spacecraft.

So we've all heard about the 300 mile mistake now. But I couldn't pass up this "low-tech" bit. It should be titled "When technology just isn't good enough, there's always a shotgun".

Returned space crew lucky, others faced wolves

] Earlier this month, I described a friend of mine who was
] responsible for a corporate network notable for its aging
] applications infrastructure. At the end of the column
] I proposed a contest and asked you all to send in your
] own entries to qualify for the "oldest living software"
] application. Needless to say, I got some great entries.

classic.

Winners Of The 'Oldest Software' Contest

] PhreakNIC 7 dates have been set for October 24-26, 2003!

PhreakNIC 7 :: Nashville, TN

This would be funny if it wasn't so serious. These things are just so sensitive.

Turtle with beacon causes major sea search - Apr. 18, 2003

] The very technology that revolutionized retail checkout -
] the bar code - is now being subverted by anti-capitalist
] protesters who fancy themselves cyberpranksters.
]
] The activists drew the ire of Wal-Mart Inc., the world's
] largest retailer, with a Web site that encouraged people
] to "name their own prices" by offering hundreds of
] substitute bar codes.
]
] Wal-Mart considered the ploy an incitement to theft and
] sent a cease-and-desist letter dated April 2 to one of
] the companies that was hosting the Web site, Re-code.com.
]
] Re-code.com's operators responded by disabling the link
] on their Web site that allowed users to print sheets with
] a selection of bar code labels that could be slapped on
] store items.

Prankster Web Site Draws Wal-Mart Ire

Good overview of social mapping.

Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya, Baby?

Decius wrote:
] ] Both bills would flatly ban the possession, sale, or use
] ] of technologies that "conceal from a communication
] ] service provider ... the existence or place of origin or
] ] destination of any communication".
]
] OK, who knows who in TN. This is a huge mistake and it needs
] to be combated. Anyone know Donna Hoffman? Can we get a copy
] of this thing?

I don't think this will ever pass the house in TN. ENA gives each district very few real IPs for web / mail servers. They setup the routers to do NAT for the rest of the PCs.

RE: Law in TN MUST be defeated

] The wireless e-mail, among the 1 billion sent each day on
] the continent, can freeze or completely disable two cell
] phones made by German handset maker Siemens, spokesman
] Jacob Rice said here on Tuesday.
]
] The e-mails contain a single word, taken from the phone's
] language menu, surrounded by quote marks and preceded by
] an asterisk, such as "*English" or "*Deutsch", Siemens
] said.

Killer stalks cell phones in Europe