I bought a QNAP TS109 6 month ago and is very pleased with it. Although it's not a RAID, QNAP has a bigger model with RAID in it as well. The biggest advantage is the low power it's using. According to www.qnap.com it's only using 15W and has everything that I needed: Samba, FTP, a full LAMP setup, bittorrent client, etc, and it's very silent. Before I bought the QNAP, I used a computer running 24/7 as well, using about 200W, and I calculated that I would earn the price of the QNAP in about year of usage compared to having the computer running. (this is with swedish electricity prices)
There is a nice plugin for windows that makes the GIMP act like any normal windows application with a background window and only one entry in the taskbar.
It's called Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer.
Doing HTML/javascript that works on all DHTML-compatible browsers (IE4+, NS4+, Mozilla, etc) is not so hard. There are several free javascriptAPIs that can manipulate layers and stylesheets for all browsers (Most programmers creates their own after a while) so there is defenetly no reason not using one of them.
If you have access to serversidescripting of any kind (ASP,PHP,JSP,etc), then it becomes even easier. Making a serversideAPI to generate the right layer-tag and include the right stylesheet is done in 5 minutes to a professional programmer.
Please dont fall into the microsoft-trapp doing exacly what they want.
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There is a MPlayer fork called MPlayerXP. The purpose of the fork is to make a multithreaded version of MPlayer.
http://mplayerxp.sourceforge.net/
I bought a QNAP TS109 6 month ago and is very pleased with it. Although it's not a RAID, QNAP has a bigger model with RAID in it as well.
The biggest advantage is the low power it's using. According to www.qnap.com it's only using 15W and has everything that I needed: Samba, FTP, a full LAMP setup, bittorrent client, etc, and it's very silent.
Before I bought the QNAP, I used a computer running 24/7 as well, using about 200W, and I calculated that I would earn the price of the QNAP in about year of usage compared to having the computer running. (this is with swedish electricity prices)
There is a nice plugin for windows that makes the GIMP act like any normal windows application with a background window and only one entry in the taskbar. It's called Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer.
Doing HTML/javascript that works on all DHTML-compatible browsers (IE4+, NS4+, Mozilla, etc) is not so hard. There are several free javascriptAPIs that can manipulate layers and stylesheets for all browsers (Most programmers creates their own after a while) so there is defenetly no reason not using one of them.
If you have access to serversidescripting of any kind (ASP,PHP,JSP,etc), then it becomes even easier. Making a serversideAPI to generate the right layer-tag and include the right stylesheet is done in 5 minutes to a professional programmer.
Please dont fall into the microsoft-trapp doing exacly what they want.