alot of these channels are encrypted but the great thing about thedreambox is that because its hard drive based its able to emulate alotof the protection mechanisms.doesnt work for sky (yet, and even if it did youd be putting your headon the legal chopping board if you tried it) although it is possibleto use your legit sky card in the dreambox thus freeing yourself fromthe unreliable digibox. theres a very active coding scene which means you are able to replacethe very nice but slightly boring original firmware with flashydistros (or images as they are often called.) im presently using plidiamond image from the plinux team. heres the release notes:The Diamond Images featuring:- 1.09 kernel (2.6.9)- 1.09 enigma (19-12-2005)- Squashfs 2.2-r2 withLZMA-compression- Front Processor version 1.06- New PMT Interface: anew interface between Enigma and an Emu/Softcam - Softcam / CardserverSetup incl. Sticky SoftCams using new PMT interface - Private EPG forPremiere - Manual (Un)Install of plugins/addons etc- Enable/Disableautomatic download of software menu index - Dreambox Tools: CheckCronjobs & Free Space; ECM-, Memory-, Mgcamd-Info, NetStat, Processlist - Tuxtxt v1.94 - Settings to control infobar on zap and OK -Skin: The name of the current running emu (e.g. 'camxng') - Skin: Thevideo format of the current service (e.g. '704x576 4:3 25 fps') -Skin: Caid types supported in the current stream - Skin: Frequency,FEC, Polarisation, Symbol rate - Language Setup- Var to USB/HDD- DebugSettings- Create your own script control panel under the Blue Setupbutton- Firewall ready- Crond ready- OSD supports: Yellow Button -Addons/Plugins, Blue Button - PLi Setup- Password change allowed byuser to any password- Games ready- CIFS enabled- New filenaming ofyour Recorded Movies,- It will be shown as ---- Full Media Highway EPGsupport for ALL Media Highway EPG providers- Menu Language selectionin your own native language- No SoftCams onboard ALL to be downloaded and there website http://pli.dreamvcr.com/diamond/releasenote/ lastly heres some satellite related websites which have tonnes moreinfo for those so inclined. http://www.i-have-a-dreambox.com/wbb2/index.phphttp://67.43.4.157:81/index.p...
i seem to have lost the ability to cut and paste correctly, heres the whole of the message i was going to send! one very fun piece of linux kit is the dreambox. i got one of a satsupplier in norwich and i havent looked back since. its a linux basedsatellite reciever, built in hard drive for time delay and recordings.combined with a £20 monoblock lnb(the thing that sits poking out ofthe dish) it picks up thousands of channels many of which show premiummovies, music, sports etc all free of the tyranny of murdoch.heres a nice little howto/intro http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/DigiTV/dbox-howto.htm
alot of these channels are encrypted but the great thing about thedreambox is that because its hard drive based its able to emulate alotof the protection mechanisms.doesnt work for sky (yet, and even if it did youd be putting your headon the legal chopping board if you tried it) although it is possibleto use your legit sky card in the dreambox thus freeing yourself fromthe unreliable digibox. theres a very active coding scene which means you are able to replacethe very nice but slightly boring original firmware with flashydistros (or images as they are often called.) im presently using plidiamond image from the plinux team. heres the release notes:The Diamond Images featuring:- 1.09 kernel (2.6.9)- 1.09 enigma (19-12-2005)- Squashfs 2.2-r2 withLZMA-compression- Front Processor version 1.06- New PMT Interface: anew interface between Enigma and an Emu/Softcam - Softcam / CardserverSetup incl. Sticky SoftCams using new PMT interface - Private EPG forPremiere - Manual (Un)Install of plugins/addons etc- Enable/Disableautomatic download of software menu index - Dreambox Tools: CheckCronjobs & Free Space; ECM-, Memory-, Mgcamd-Info, NetStat, Processlist - Tuxtxt v1.94 - Settings to control infobar on zap and OK -Skin: The name of the current running emu (e.g. 'camxng') - Skin: Thevideo format of the current service (e.g. '704x576 4:3 25 fps') -Skin: Caid types supported in the current stream - Skin: Frequency,FEC, Polarisation, Symbol rate - Language Setup- Var to USB/HDD- DebugSettings- Create your own script control panel under the Blue Setupbutton- Firewall ready- Crond ready- OSD supports: Yellow Button -Addons/Plugins, Blue Button - PLi Setup- Password change allowed byuser to any password- Games ready- CIFS enabled- New filenaming ofyour Recorded Movies,- It will be shown as ---- Full Media Highway EPGsupport for ALL Media Highway EPG providers- Menu Language selectionin your own native language- No SoftCams onboard ALL to be downloaded and there website http://pli.dreamvcr.com/diamond/releasenote/ lastly heres some satellite related websites which have tonnes moreinfo for those so inclined. http://www.i-have-a-dreambox.com/wbb2/index.phphttp://67.43.4.157:81/index.p...
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Ricky Bruce rickybruce@gmail.com wrote:
i seem to have lost the ability to cut and paste correctly, heres the whole of the message i was going to send! one very fun piece of linux kit is the dreambox. i got one of a satsupplier in norwich and i havent looked back since. its a linux basedsatellite reciever, built in hard drive for time delay and recordings.combined with a £20 monoblock lnb(the thing that sits poking out ofthe dish) it picks up thousands of channels many of which show premiummovies, music, sports etc all free of the tyranny of murdoch.heres a nice little howto/intro http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/DigiTV/dbox-howto.htm
Lost me here, brain decided that it really couldn't parse the typing style any more - large blocks of text are very bad to get people reading them.
Cheers, Brett.
i did have it all nicely formatted but then gmail crashed it all came back as a big block...oh well! you can rest assured that anything i was saying was probably not very important anyway! On 2/4/06, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
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Ricky Bruce rickybruce@gmail.com wrote:
i seem to have lost the ability to cut and paste correctly, heres the whole of the message i was going to send! one very fun piece of linux kit is the dreambox. i got one of a satsupplier in norwich and i havent looked back since. its a linux basedsatellite reciever, built in hard drive for time delay and recordings.combined with a £20 monoblock lnb(the thing that sits poking out ofthe dish) it picks up thousands of channels many of which show premiummovies, music, sports etc all free of the tyranny of murdoch.heres a nice little howto/intro http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/DigiTV/dbox-howto.htm
Lost me here, brain decided that it really couldn't parse the typing style any more - large blocks of text are very bad to get people reading them.
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Ricky Bruce rickybruce@gmail.com wrote:
i seem to have lost the ability to cut and paste correctly, heres the whole of the message i was going to send! one very fun piece of linux kit is the dreambox. i got one of a satsupplier in norwich and i havent looked back since. its a linux basedsatellite reciever, built in hard drive for time delay and recordings.combined with a £20 monoblock lnb(the thing that sits poking out ofthe dish) it picks up thousands of channels many of which show premiummovies, music, sports etc all free of the tyranny of murdoch.heres a nice little howto/intro http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/DigiTV/dbox-howto.htm
Lost me here, brain decided that it really couldn't parse the typing style any more - large blocks of text are very bad to get people reading them.
Agreed. I gave up after about 3 lines...
Cheers, Laurie.
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