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Lovin' My Firefox 1.5.x
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join:2001-03-30
North Port, FL
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| Bloated & Unwieldy.... LOL, while I'm sure it is just that, the average Joe hopefully won't have to worry about it.
"Honey, can you record that show on 'X-Channel'? It's on in 5 minutes..."
"It won't let me, it's in the middle of some critical update thing..."
"I told you to keep cable hooked up!"
-fight ensues-
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'The tighter the RIAA squeezes their grip, the more stars and systems will slip through their fingers.'
Member of the Official AnarchistTelecommunications(&)Terrorists bashing club. | |
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rachelsfx
join:2004-09-27
Pensacola, FL
1 edit | Re: Bloated & Unwieldy.... Hackers compromise at&t's entire IPTV network During Superbowl
As the Eagles were driving to hopefully tie Cinci's 35-28 lead, everyone on at&t's U-Verse suddenly were watching the cartoon channel. Customers couldn't change the channel. A few moments later, the shopping channel appeared.
As the Eagles tied the game, customers flooded at&t with calls. As customers waited on hold, even their DSL crashed. Suddenly, from no where, blue screens were on all TVs. Microsoft runtime error 69696.oex4bc. All the boxes rebooted and the game thus reappeared and some guy named Chin posted a note on a bulletin board that he had broken in. Modems had to be recycled and computers rebooted, but the Superbowl was over: Cincinnati had won! 41-35 on a botched Eagles onside kick!
One IPTV customer said, "At least the hacker struck after the waldrobe malfunction at halftime. I couldn't get tech support. The hold time was estimated at 3 hours and 45 mins. I called Dish."
Stores in the IPTV areas sold out their DirecTV and Dish Network kits in one hour the next day. Cable companies worked round the clock to set customers up.
Videos of the event piled up on Google's YouTube. Chin, the hacker, posted a 25-minute video of the Superbowl's final nerve-wracking minutes and it was viewed nearly 1.2 million times. 100,000 or more comments bashed at&t and Microsoft.
And, so went the fortunes of at&t U-Verse. Fiber to the Home was now T's buzzword! | |
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join:2005-09-21
Bethel Park, PA
| Re: Bloated & Unwieldy.... ...and the ATT doomsayers lived happily ever after. The End.
Now for an excerpt from the next story of how US Broadband will be #1 :
"... the rabid DSLr's stormed into the conference, armed heavily with a large gattling gun (loaded with copper bullets, made of abundunt copper right off the poles) and screamed "MAY THE LOBBYISTS BE DAMNED"... | |
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join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO | Just out of curiousity....
Why were the eagles performing an onsides kick when they just tied it? | |
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rachelsfx
join:2004-09-27
Pensacola, FL | Re: Bloated & Unwieldy.... Only 1:26 left in the game. | |
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owenhome
keeper of the magic blue smoke
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join:2002-07-13
Bentonville, AR | Just what I always wanted........ A BSOD on my DLP. | |
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Looking4Owen
@dslextreme.com
| Re: Just what I always wanted........ OWENHOME...do you have an email addressS? i read the comment you made about DSL extreme pushing connection issues over to the customer saying that it is a "wiring" problem and now they are saying i need to pay to have them send a dispatcher over to see if the problem is inside my house. i am so iritated cos i never had this problem before switching!
what do u think is hould do??? | |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | Re: Microsoft Enhanced cableboxes go BSOD The lovely blue screen of death..lol
I didnt know comcast was using M$ in there boxes. | |
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Whats a Posting tag?
join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA
 ·Comcast Formerly ..
| Re: Microsoft Enhanced cableboxes go BSOD said by hayabusa3303  :I didnt know comcast was using M$ in there boxes. I believe it's only in the northwest Washington market.
We still have the tan (turd) guide on our old black Moto-boxes.  | |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | Re: Microsoft Enhanced cableboxes go BSOD Could be worst... the SA BOXES  | |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
| said by b10010011 :When this happend it takes a hard reset (power cycle and a remote reset from Comcast to restore operation. Oh and this is NOT a DVR box just a simple cable box. How can they mess it up so badly? Hey, my Scientific Atlanta box has all kinds of problems that require me to kill the power for 1 minute, turn the power back on and wait for like 5 minutes before turning the box back on, so it's not limited to MS. | |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | Re: Microsoft Enhanced cableboxes go BSOD that sounds like a bad firmware it loaded, or bad programming on SA part. | |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
| Re: Microsoft Enhanced cableboxes go BSOD said by hayabusa3303 :that sounds like a bad firmware it loaded, or bad programming on SA part. Yes it does. | |
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ctachme
join:2003-11-29
Traverse City, MI | But Microsoft doesn't care about non-microsoft users! This would really suck because that means I couldn't watch IPTV on my Mac. Microsoft doesn't even make Media Player for the Mac anymore! | |
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God
IN Vilseck Germany
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join:2002-07-01
Colorado Springs, CO
clubs: | Re: But Microsoft doesn't care about non-microsoft users! M$ will get into anything it can make a profit in | |
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FiL
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join:2005-08-16
Silver Spring, MD
| Re: But Microsoft doesn't care about non-microsoft users! Comcast cable round here does the same stuff...only with constant audio flickers at the most IMPORTANT segements of the show your watching.
Sometimes I think its intentional, special when one night it happend twice in a row during a Dave Chappelle late night un-censored showing of his standup routine...all audio went out during the punchlines...lol
Cable sucks for this reason... | |
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ashworth
join:2001-10-06
Pittsburgh, PA | MicroSuck Over bloated software....hmmm, seems to be there MO. Not surprising VZ and others are developing their own code.....oh no, could there be open software devopment in the new IP-TV market ?? You bet. | |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| xbox360 says it all It will work as a media extender with a media center pc, but it can't play xvid, divx, avi. You have to get 3rd party software that transcodes the avi on the fly and streams it to the 360. This requires buffering and heavy cpu usage, it's sad when microsoft can't figure out how to play the most popular format on their own. | |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | Re: xbox360 says it all which third party transcodes on the fly? | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| only if you give the content away free or have all you can eat including PPV's for oh, say $10-20 a month
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Otherwise the quality just isn't worth it..
Besides, there are dozen or so cable channels being broadcast free on the net already.. what's to stop the rest from a pirate streamcaster to make a nifty profit on, heh, heh, heh!
Youtube goes streamtube, YEAH BAbY! | |
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DavisFreeberg
@comcast.net | Already Dominating I'm not sure if Microsoft will end up being the ultimate winner, but there haven't been alot of other companies that have gained traction in IPTV. I bet at some point we see more variety, but for now Softie is dominating IPTV. | |
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Will Microsoft Dominate the IPTV Space?
Microsoft Enhanced cableboxes go BSOD