From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Mar 19 00:29:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18942 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:29:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA18911 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:29:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id HAA02277; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 07:50:59 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199803190650.HAA02277@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: "Windows 98" To: pete@sms.fi (Petri Helenius) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 07:50:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: eivind@yes.no, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com In-Reply-To: <199803190707.JAA15835@silver.sms.fi> from "Petri Helenius" at Mar 19, 98 09:07:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > IMO, broadcasting the junk over airwaves is too error prone and > kludgy, just use the WWW from the television station like: > http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/ remember, teletext was there 15 years ago -- in the homes -- and it doesn't cost you a phone call to get the data. On top of this: you live in a small (population-wise) and probably well networked country. The italian tv site www.rai.it offers teletext pages using a crappy program running under a windows server and probably behind a very slow line. Usually, 90% of the requests for teletext pages time out, the remaining 10% reply "this server is too busy try later". This is why, when I put teletext pages on my web server back in 1995, the info leaked out and our site become very popular, getting up to 10K requests/hour for teletext pages. And i am still getting complaints from people because i removed the pages after RAI, two years after declining our request/offer to distribute the pages on the net, put up its marvelous www black hole. > How many TV sets have point-and-click interface!? some do. a lot of cheap 1992-class TVs can identify links on the teletext pages and browse through them using the arrow keys on the remote control. better than a mouse. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message