Recent content by Legless

Arrgah. You bar-steward! You know that I now *have* to try that? But first, backup and then restore so I have faith in the recovery utilities. Then I'm going to give that a bash. I'll let you know how I get on. Cheers

It should. And, if it does, I'll get one of my fixes added to an idiots guide on my first post which makes me go "WOO!". I did try a *much* more convulted way of changing the password but it failed. Basically, I setup a webserver and DNS, pointed the dreambox to my DNS and added an entry for...

Be gentle, first post. I'm completely new to the whole Dreambox scene so forgive me if I'm teaching people how to suck eggs. I got my first Dreambox today, a DM500S, and found that I couldn't log in as root. Seems the little bugger is set up as a cardsharing machine and the bloke I bought it...

http://business.sky.com/pubs_packages.asp# Our pub is rateable band P (110K-125K). So Sky charge the pub £1540 a month for the right to show Sky in the pub - plus VAT at 17.5%. And all of it goes to SKY. SKY pass the VAT on to the tax people but keep the £1540 Thats why the pub can't afford...

It's a small village pub. Sky want to charge £1600 a month to allow them to show the footie. There's no way that this pub can afford that. I know that they're being ripped off but at least it's better than Sky ripping them off. And yes, we do want to decrypt obscure channles to get the...

Hi all. My local pub has a Dreambox system that has been crippled. They pay a company £100 a month to recieve sat TV but this setup is reliant on the pubs broadband connection being up. Lose the broadband and you lose the ability to recieve sat TV. (I suspect the Dreambox is sending out a...