Matt E.

Anyone else who post after this, that this is a real story, IS AN IDIOT!

Ask me if I care. Personally, I've been Windoze free for years. I run Linux on all my machines. Mostly everyone else in the household uses a Mac. The only one in my family running Windows is my 13 year daughter. I keep a image of her HDD around for everytime she gets bit hard. She wants an iMac G5 for graduation. She'll probably get it.

OK, I'll admit it, I own an XBOX. But thats it!

Hmmm, I guess Steveo doesn't know his company does this:
http://channel9.msdn.com/default.aspx

They have Microsoft Podcasts!

Does anyone know what the reference to "Hot Coffee" means in GTA?

I think it comes from these lines quoted from the movie "Event Horizon":

Cooper: Stark? Would you like something hot and black inside you?
[Stark gives him the finger]
Cooper: Oooh! Is that an offer?
Lt. Starck, Executive Officer: [smiles] It is not.
Cooper: Well how about some coffee, then?

Um, I thought they just did away with the lifetime sub? Or is that just for any new TiVo subscriber (sucker) who buys a Tivo before the series 3 comes out?

I'm a true gamer. I'm 38 years old and have been playing all types of videogame systems since Pong.

I pwn all of you.

Died March 8, 2006
R.I.P. TiVo

I will think fond thoughts of you as watch my MythTV box from now on.

Um, lets all boycott KFC for using subliminal advertising.

Who's with me?
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Oooooh! Honey BBQ Boneless wings! Um, nevermind.

I wish people would stop calling them Media Center PC's. That implies that they are, indeed, running MS Windows XP Media Center Edition.

Call it a HTPC or Home Theatre PC

Because there are alternatives. I for one have been running Suse Linux with MythTV for the last year.

Here's my setup.
Software:
Suse Linux 9.3 Pro
MythTv
ivtv
MySQL

Hardware:
HTPC CASE - http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.php/pName/silverstone-lascala-sstlc03b-htpc-case-black/cName/htpc-cases

TV Tuner cards - (2) Hauppage WinTV PVR-500 MCE (Dual tuner)

CPU - Intel 3.2Ghz Pentium Extreme

RAM - 1GB

MOBO - MSI - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130467


Video -(1)Video card - Nvidia Force FX5200

Storage - (2) 250GB Maxtor SATA drives (LVM'ed - 500GB)

(1)Boot HDD - 1 7.5GB Maxtor IDE HDD

Optical - (1)DVD -/+ RW

I/O - (1)Firewire Card

All displayed on 61" Sony Rear Screen HD TV.

With this setup I can record up to 4 channels at once - while watching a pre-recorded program, rip my DVD collection to HDD, download recorded TV shows and movies to iPod or PSP, display recorded shows and movies on other PCs running the MythTv Front-End (off of CD), play CDs, mp3s, games, get RSS feeds, local weather, free program guide info thru zap2it.com. The possibilties are endless!

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