If they're planning on using bands within or nearby the current digital channels, I suspect that folks may be able to hack the current lineup of WRTs to spit out an ATSC signal. This would actually be really good thing for the diy crowd. Everyone needs their own pirate TV station. I haven't seen any F/OSS ATSC modulation code in the wild yet though.

I'm a long-time Skype user, and while it isn't my favorite application, it certainly works, and connects me to people around the world (for work). Good luck, Skype. I do hope this brings plenty of improvements and functionality. If not, we'll use something else!

Y'know, this guy can make back his $90 and then some by putting ads on the site. The PD must have already setup links everywhere, all he has to do it set it up, sit back, and collect a check. What are the chances this guy will be sued?

This is Slashdot not 4chan.

Oh, I thought this was SPARTAAAAA!!!!

geolocation, which is what Google obviously wants them for

Bingo. A neat idea made almost moot with GPS chips in cell phones. If you know where the WiFi is, you can look up the location of the WiFi via Google -- without a GPS. I mentioned in a similar /. article about placelab.org which I think maps whichever radio they're able to get data from.

I experimented with this stuff back in 2002 when I created wifimaps.com, which is a wardriving map application, which harvests data from wardrivers. I'm not a math guy, so I used a weighted average for estimating the WIFi signal source. Mapserver is kinda neat too, which I used since Google Maps didn't exist yet.

There is the Placelab.org project, but their mailing list has died down over the years.

"Good news, everyone -- it's a suppository!"

Sorry, I had to, please forgive me mods!

That was my thoughts. And mobog, and a few other experiments. Glad to see the guy still kicking, if it is the same Phil.

I was wondering how Cacti relates to Nagios. Do the both do the same job or compliment one-another? In four words the post you're complaining about answered that question nicely.

I am a longtime user of cacti, and dealt with MRTG before then. Nagios is designed for simple on-off monitoring. It does this very well. If you need pager rotation schedules, nagios is prolly your best bet. I like wowing the executives with pretty color graphs, and that is a job for Cacti. You can visually see the impact on the system of jobs running on your MySQL servers. You can see when script kiddies attack your Apache hosts and then get blocked by your scripts. And it looks great printed full-page on the new color laser printer you should be taking advantage of. Unless you need something expressly wacky, or a difinitive pager rotation, cacti and related modules (thold) can monitor your whole computing environment, and page you when there are problems. I've had trouble handling cloud management, mostly due to new machines spawning, and old machines dying. I'm sure others have had similar issues. It is a pain to run scripts to add new hosts, and manage removing hosts that have been terminated.

You were doing great up until that "it works on everything" part. Plenty of folks have pulled their hair out with Myth in the past and you make it sound like a breeze. Look at the numbers of folks posting here that have given up on it and you can plainly see it's far from easy. I for one hope that this version is VERY good but please, the rah rah it works great stuff can be saved - most of us know better having tried it already.

In my experience, it does work on every PC I've run it on. It even works on my OSX work laptop.

I have had trouble getting crappy hardware to work, but I can hardly blame MythTV. Once it works, it just keeps working. I think some people may have a hard time figuring out how to install drivers and getting their machine to work in the first place. This is when I switched from Centos over to KnoppMyth. Installed, detected my new PVR-150, and worked until successive upgrades.

Now I have three and a half computers dedicated to MythTV. One is a recording-only host that connects to the CableTV HDHomerun. One was driving my analog projector until the projector power supply went -- it recorded from the Antenna HDHomerun. Then I have another one with my old PVR-150, which also drives the old TV downstairs. The other half is the master backend and MySQL database with no tuner. I am using Centos, and the atrpms yum repositories.

I just did a channel-scan after my upgrade, and I seem to have more channels, and also the audio channels from my sub-basic Comcast cable feed. I think I get more enjoyment out of harvesting television shows than I do by watching them. Think Captain Kirk's head on a 6-foot screen.

I for one welcome our MythTV .22 Overlords!

I've been using MythTV for a bunch of years now, and I find it an absolute blast. It works on every PC I can find, and even on my work OSX laptop, which still lets me watch The It's Alive Show while I'm hacking away. It even eats the commercials, and does a better job with digital television signals. I can't wait for multirec support for my HDHomeRun.

If you haven't tried MythTV recently, check it out again.

Is it possible that these mafia people are stupid? Imagine we can reprocess nuclear waste, in many of the ways that slashdotters will include below. Now this nuclear waste conveniently stored underwater, is fuel that we can use to power our toys with. This is assuming that there wasn't any damage to the containers, and a big cleanup isn't required. Hopefully, when the world comes to its senses, and makes better use of its resources, we won't have these kinds of problems. (It always drives me crazy that there are organizations that will burn or throw away or sequester potentially useful materials. Sure mercury is poisonous. Extract it from your waste, and sell it to someone that needs it. The same with CO2, and even radon. I wonder about gold production from mining landfills.)

...or beta blockers or digitalis or any commonly prescribed drug...

Boy do I wish they gave out digitalis as a commonly prescribed drug. And cyanide.