{"id":154,"date":"2004-01-03T16:14:29","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T00:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2004-01-03T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2004-01-04T00:14:29","slug":"a-fine-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/03\/a-fine-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"A fine idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recent <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/01\/03\/0222206&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=106&#038;tid=137&#038;tid=185\">slashdot story<\/a> is similar to something I&#8217;ve been wanting to do but never gotten around to.  This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plutohome.com\/\">pluto<\/a> box really shouldn&#8217;t be very hard to build with commodity parts.  I would probably cut out the PVR stuff so you could use really mediocre hardware, and I figure you could put this box together for well under a grand.  The trick would be creating a nice GUI to tie the whole thing together.  It really doesn&#8217;t sound hard, and once we got it right could be sold out of a garage (or apartment) online with minimal inventory required.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on getting a voicemail system running in my apartment with <a href=\"http:\/\/vocp.sourceforge.net\/\">VOCP<\/a> but it&#8217;s been tough finding a good modem with working Linux drivers.  Working out all those hassles and then selling a box with known good hardware sounds like the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post back shortly when I make my first million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recent slashdot story is similar to something I&#8217;ve been wanting to do but never gotten around to. This pluto box really shouldn&#8217;t be very hard to build with commodity parts. I would probably cut out the PVR stuff so you could use really mediocre hardware, and I figure you could put this box together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-2u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}