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Fortunately, no lives were lost, yet the deluge damaged more than 70 houses and caused the need for canal repairs that would ultimately cost upwards of $10 million. Nearby Riverdale City homes faced the brunt of the flood, as muddy water and silt forced hundreds of residents to evacuate.

On July 11, 1999, the Davis and Weber Canal breached. Precast concrete products have been integral to the improvements. I was pleasantly surprised to learn much later of QCast's connection to the Ars A/V Forum, a place that I rarely visit (I prefer the Macintosh Achaia these days).As the 20 thВ anniversary of a significant canal breach in Utah passed, the canal companyвЂ™s investment in repairs and replacement are a triumph for the water users and the engineering community. I should also mention that when I first saw QCast in action and got interested in it, I had no idea that the product was connected to Ars in any way. That having been said, nobody at Ars has any financial stake in BroadQ. So in some sense, Ars is discussing and reviewing a product put out someone that we have some very positive personal ties to. The actual media player applications that run on top of the core environment are based on LGPL and GPL code, so BroadQ publishes the source changes to these applications.)?

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(For the curious, I'll mention that QCast's core technology, what BroadQ calls the PS2 Network Operating Environment, is closed source and is uncontaminated by GPL code. Thus QCast is a product that grew out of the hardware enthusiast and console hacker communities, and it's been involved with those communities over the life of the product.? His new company, BroadQ, published its first press release in July 2002, detailing the company's mission statement and outlining the development of its flagship product, the QCast Tuner.?Д«ecause Sony didn't officially endorse the QCast Tuner's creation nor was the company involved in any way with the development of the product, BroadQ was left to rely on its own resources, as well as those of the Playstation2 development community (e.g. He then put together a company around the idea, assembling a team of programmers, arranging seed funding, and appointing a management team. Smith claims that he came up with the basic concept for the QCast Tuner after going through the Ars Technica A/V forum, looking for information that would help him with a WiFi media server project that he was working on at the time.? Eric Smith, who's QCast's inventor and the CTO of BroadQ, is an active Ars OpenForum member and the QCast Tuner has its roots here at Ars.

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AdvertisementД«ut before I go on to talk about QCast, BroadQ and the emerging home networked media space, in the interest of full disclosure I should point something out: C. This would allow any room with a ~$200 PS2 and networking connectivity (wireless or wired) to enjoy the kind of multimedia content that's traditionally tied to a single PC.

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By utilizing the networking kit available for the PlayStation 2, BroadQ's QCast Tuner PS2 software can deliver digital media over a LAN from a PC to a networked Playstation2.

And if you want to access any of that content from a room with no PC-like the living room, for instance-then your options are quite limited.ДЄll of this could soon change, however, if BroadQ and other companies in the emerging networked media player space have their way. Unless someone in the house is proficient enough with Windows to set up file-sharing and map drives, MP3s and movies that are downloaded on one computer aren't readily accessible to a machine across the hall, a situation which creates little islands of content playable in only one room.

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Many homes do in fact have multiple PCs-one or more PC for the parents and one for the school-age children-but their utility as interconnected entertainment conduits lags far behind that of the TV in terms of price and ease of use. Though the price of a low-end PC has dropped through the floor in recent years, these PCs, especially when combined with a Microsoft OS, are still far too expensive to be as ubiquitous in the home as the television.

Most of these TVs are also?equipped with VCRs, so that movies and other entertainment can be enjoyed in almost every room in the house. Many homes now have a cable-connected TV in every bedroom and common room, and some even have a TV in the kitchen. In the past two decades, one of the most noticeable shifts in the landscape of the American home has been the spread of the television set from the living room into every room in the house.

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Sony PlayStation2 console, Sony PS2 Ethernet Adapter, PS2 memory card, Pentium II 300 MHz computer with 64Meg RAM, 20MB+ of free hard drive space, Linux, OS X, or Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP and Internet connectivity.?