<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:26 PM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tivo boxes have always been pathetically weak boxes with some<br>
special acceleration hardware added. They are NOT general purpose<br>
machines and not something you would want to try and use as such.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I don't think anyone asked about replacing a desktop machine or database server with a TiVo box.<br clear="all"><br>The other side of this particular coin is that not much energy goes into making Myth code efficient, which puts users on a constant upgrade treadmill--Myth is sort of the Vista of FOSS, and if it takes fairly high-end hardware to run it, the decision-makers seem okay with that. <br>
<br>That doesn't match up with my own personal wishes--I'd like to be able to run the frontend, at least, on inexpensive, low-power, resource-limited hardware--but I'm not trying to say it's inherently good or bad, just that it is. <br>
<br>So maybe the TiVo isn't "weak", just engineered.<br><br>-- <br>Heath Roberts<br><a href="mailto:htroberts@gmail.com">htroberts@gmail.com</a><br><br>
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