Image you just want to watch TV. Unfortunately, you get a strange device including

•  Some 66MHz PowerPC-based CPU
•  32MB of RAM
•  8MB of nice, expensive NOR Flashrom
•  MPEG2-Hardware
•  and anything else you need for a fully equipped geek device: Ethernet, a nice display, and a lot of hack-value

Well, then it's time to go to www.tuxbox.org and check out the tuxbox-project. What, that's nothing new to you? Let's go back in time a bit. Think of a dark november in 2000. Think of old.elitedvb.net. Or randgruppe.info's dbox pages.