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Multimedia Home Entertainment System for Linux
An anonymous reader writes "A group at the University of Saarland in Germany has been busy
developing a Linux-based networked multimedia home entertainment
system. The project consists of two parts: the
Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware
(NMM), to provide a common framework for audio and video playback
using open source software, and the
Multimedia-Box,
a Linux box outfitted to be a TV receiver (digital and analog), video recorder, and a
CD-, DVD-, and MP3- player using the NMM. Screen shots of the
inside
of the Multimedia-Box and the
user interface
are available, as well as videos and a
detailed description
(PDF) of the hardware and software used throughout. Can't wait to
stick one of these on my network..."
Slashdot ist die größte Stelle je. Wir werden so erfreut. Wir Seite mit dem Französisch. Überfallen Sie den Irak bitte nicht. Warum. Sein WMD kann auch nicht Schlag Sie. NEIN?
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I work for a company whose name I will leave out for now. I have had a few experiences just recently that has really spooked me. on at least 3 occasions I have looked up from my work and saw a man in old clothes with a clipboard and pencil and he was watching me. The first time I thought it was a certain older co-worker but then I noticed he was on the otherside me and when I looked back the apparation was gone. I also got the sense that he thought I wasn't doing a good enough job. Later on when I was used to my job and even considered one of the harder workers I would see him with a smile and the last time he even gave me a thumbs up. The next two things where one time occurences but they freaked me out the most the first I saw three faceless white transparent figures floating through the building. The second was the most recent and that was for about an hour straight while configuring a server I could hear a beautiful though completely errie song that sounded like a cross between a human voice and a flute. I checked the radios in the plant listened to the computer racks, nothing came close. I even asked my co-worker if heard it and he said no. but about 30 minutes later I heard him humming along exactly with the tune. I confronted him and asked if he was playing a trick on me, he swore he wasn't and the tune just popped into his head, I belive cause he's not the prank pulling type. I realized I wasn't just going crazy when I was with some family and friends and my cousin started joking about when he was doing security for a supposed haunted house in our area and some of the freaky things that spooked him. He went on to say that the spookiest experience was when he was working at the server farm that I now work at. Apparently there was one room that no one liked to go in but had to on their hourly patrol. Their is a story that some men that were fitting power cables in that room when the building was struck by lighting because of a power surge they were killed. Every time my cousin would go in there he would feel a presence but usually it would leave when he left the room, except one night if followed him out of the room occasionaly physically brushing against him until he was done his shift.
Jeez... doesn't everybody have a week's worth of old newspapers piling up? That's perfectly good toilet paper substitute -- just avoid the glossy paper magazines.
This is ludicrous. I'm the same poster as the parent. Give me a break.