[mythtv-users] Cringely article mentions Myth

Ryan Steffes rbsteffes at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 10:12:41 EDT 2004


On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:25:19 +0200, Henk Poley <hpoley at dds.nl> wrote:
> Op vrijdag 01 oktober 2004 16:44, schreef Jason Werpy:
> 
> 
> > Cringley's latest column mentions someone in Canada using myth to
> > serve video content to an entire neighborhood.
> >
> > He's using his own dishes to gather content and is basically running
> > his own "cable" (actually its wireless) television service supported
> > by myth.  Truly amazing.
> >
> > here's the link:
> > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/rss/redir/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html
> 
> It just popped on my Memigo.com, but what I find fishy is that I can't find a
> connection between Starnix and MythTV. Only one mailinglist where both
> someone from @starnix.com posted, and some other discussion about MythTV
> (without Starnix people). Also no Google hits on Andrew Greig and Starnix.
> Though the name of the person might be altered for privacy reasons.
> 
> And I seem to remember someone posting here that he had such a big storage
> that the Show Recordings page took 3 minutes to show up. I don't want to
> thing how long it would take for this guy and his neighbourhood, most of the
> frontends work over WiFi even (high variable latency).
> 
>  Henk Poley <><
> 
> 
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I'm betting on this guy:
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:SNGaLjSSKdIJ:www.mail-archive.com/gulcr%40listas.linux.or.cr/msg11701.html+%22andrew+greig%22+starnix&hl=en

Or rather, the guy quoted in his reply.


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