Raffi Krikorian

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Raffi Krikorian makes a career of hacking everything and anything. Professionally, he is the founding partner at Synthesis Studios: a technological design and consulting firm that orchestrates his disjointed train of thought. He has developed Java-based distributed/mobile software agent infrastructures while also investigating human perception of sound in zero-g with NASA. While at the MIT Media Lab, he studied and built tiny, embedded, and sub-$5 Internet nodes and while also teaching students "How to Make (Almost) Anything." In his scarce free time, he justified his television addiction by writing "TiVo Hacks" for O'Reilly and Associates, the first book on hacking into, understanding, and extending the Linux-based PVR. Currently, Raffi is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program where he teaches topics ranging from digital ethics and security to "computing without computers".

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TiVo Hacks
by Raffi Krikorian
August 2003
$24.95 USD

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Which TiVo Is the Right One for You?
Publish Date: Oct. 2, 2003Raffi Krikorian, author of TiVo Hacks, examines the four different TiVo choices available: the Series 1 Stand-alone (SA), the S1 DirecTiVo, the Series 2 SA, and the S2 DirecTiVo. He looks at the pros and cons of each one so you'll know which one is the right one for you; and for the hackers among you, which one is right if you want to hack your TiVo. C# for Java Programmers
Publish Date: Nov. 21, 2001In this collection of articles, Raffi Krikorian introduces Java programmers to C#. With the rise of Web services and the increasing importance of interoperability in today's heterogeneous development environments, C# is proving to be a viable language for Java developers. Multithreading with C#
Publish Date: Aug. 6, 2001Raffi Krikorian will focus on the syntactical differences between Java and C# threading capabilities, as well as presenting a translation of a few common Java usage patterns into C#. C# I/O and Networking
Publish Date: Jul. 17, 2001Java is favored as a language partly because of the way it has abstracted away the difficulties in performing input/output and networking operations. C# has taken the same approach and has provided libraries that hide these complications. JXTA BOFs: Community and Implementation
Publish Date: Jun. 11, 2001Raffi Krikorian reports on two birds of a feather sessions at JavaOne -- one on community and one on JXTA implemetations. Li Gong: JXTA All About Community
Publish Date: Jun. 11, 2001Leading a BOF at JavaOne, JXTA engineering director Li Gong explained which P2P problems JXTA attacks, and emphasized that the project is a community effort. Conversational C# for Java Programmers
Publish Date: May. 31, 2001Raffi Krikorian helps introduce Java programmers to how C# and Java differ. Hello JXTA!
Publish Date: Apr. 25, 2001Raffi Krikorian gives us an insider's view of JXTA, and how it can be used to develop a simple 'Hello World' P2P application. Programmatically Signing JAR Files
Publish Date: Apr. 12, 2001While in most cases, programmatically signing JAR files is a frowned upon, there are a few cases when it is necessary.

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