I have just realized that my good friend François-Yves Le Gal has just published a book on the Freebox, France's premier ISP set-top box, brought to market by Free.fr!
You can find many of FYL's (the name he goes by usually) comments on USENET (Internet's newsgroups system).
He has a very special way of expressing himself when he's pissed off, as this series of *public* posts can show... Always a good lauch in the morning if you're feeling slightly down ;oD
A small pix of the man and myself in Geneva, at Gerard's, the world's capital of cigars, back in 2001 I believe...