128 is the magic number

I know you all heared rumours about different numbers, but it prooved yesterday: 128 is the real magic number. OK, the story is much longer, but here is the summary: I just love cycling and trying to watch heros in action I browsed through the channels my DVB-S receiver gives me.

Now the thing is this: after 127 channels (Astra in Germany is just insane - 8 news channels, 7 music video channels, ... all this is free) I still didn't have a broadcast from Barcelona (eurosport shows Giro - but seriously: who wants to know if Pettachi manages 17th stage today or tomorrow?). So I switched to channel 128 and the receiver crashed. Yes, it crashed. Good thing the Grundig designers added a crash handler that automatically reboots the machine. Just too bad they also added session management, so it booted right into channel 128 - which makes it crash. Now I have this little setup box that I can make endless reboot cycles when I put it on the power cord. It's pretty useless to me, I guess I should sell it at ebay.

So I'm back to analog TV (it looks so disgusting - I mean, analog is so 90ties), but this gives me the buffer not having to buy the most expensive receiver there is just because my beloved would miss O.C. otherwise - that trouble no hero can compensate. So I looked around and I think I'm going with a hdd receiver this time and there is a pretty neat one: the dreambox. When I saw that they ported linux to the dbox at LinuxTag I thought they are pretty insane, but now I think it's pretty cool - I'll have a linux box in the living room. Just look how neat it can look like: http://sky.heim.at/skins/. If you have some experience with it, please let me know.