Actually, that's a damn good idea: an open-source software project that allows you to build your own PVR.
Assuming you can get your hands on the additional hardware required, it shouldn't be that difficult. All you'd really need is a cheap TV decoder/video I/O card. Stick that in a Celeron-level box with a big HD, running Linux and the PVR software, and away you go!
Absolutely! I used to manage international shipping for a computer mail-order store, and dealt with DHL every day. (Wonderfully simple job really--I sometimes miss it...)
I've sent packages to everywhere you can legally send things, and then some. DHL always came through. They are even very good about working with Interpol to track down the organised crime rings that steal high-value packages. (At one time, every Mac we sent to Saudi Arabia disappeared along the way.) You can also tag a high-value or fragile item so that it will be handled by one person only at each hub.
BTW, in "third-world" locations, DHL contracts with local companies to handle the actual deliveries.
is it just me, or is anyone else really worried that Apple will have taken one of the best OS's around (Mac OS X Server, previously NexTStep) and totally destroyed it with the new interface?
i'm using OSX Server right now. it has basically all the cool stuff in OSX client: kernel, BSD, any shell I want, Objective-C, cocoa, etc. i've used just about every GUI consumer OS, except OS/2, including BeOS (i was be developer #136) and I've never been happier than I am now, using OSX Server. coding in WebObjects and Objective-C is absolutely beautiful!
i've played with OSX dp3, and the interface sucks ass. i really hope we can rip out the candy and replace it with a truly useable interface...
>Gasse has always been known as, frankly, an arrogant bastard.
He may be known as such, but in reality he's a very cool guy.
My (then) company was working closely with Be several years ago (when they were around 20-30 people) so I got to hang out with them at dev conferences, etc. Truly brilliant engineers.
JLG (as he's called in the Be world) is very caring about his employees, and cool to hang out with. He is strongly opinionated, but there's nothing wrong with that.
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Since they have the JavaScriptCore library that is part of Safari (and open source).
-chris
Actually, that's a damn good idea: an open-source software project that allows you to build your own PVR.
Assuming you can get your hands on the additional hardware required, it shouldn't be that difficult. All you'd really need is a cheap TV decoder/video I/O card. Stick that in a Celeron-level box with a big HD, running Linux and the PVR software, and away you go!
they do actually give it away, here in Sweden they sent one to pretty much every 18-year old male, probably hoping for us all to be morons...
They do this in the US, too. They send it as a high school "graduation present"...
Aside from animal testing issues, I refuse to use gillette products because of this.
-chris
ummmm.. if plants absorbed green wavelengths, they wouldn't be green, right?
Maybe 3 months max jailtime and a fine proportional to the damages. I don't even really agree with the jailtime...
-chris
I've sent packages to everywhere you can legally send things, and then some. DHL always came through. They are even very good about working with Interpol to track down the organised crime rings that steal high-value packages. (At one time, every Mac we sent to Saudi Arabia disappeared along the way.) You can also tag a high-value or fragile item so that it will be handled by one person only at each hub.
BTW, in "third-world" locations, DHL contracts with local companies to handle the actual deliveries.
i'm using OSX Server right now. it has basically all the cool stuff in OSX client: kernel, BSD, any shell I want, Objective-C, cocoa, etc. i've used just about every GUI consumer OS, except OS/2, including BeOS (i was be developer #136) and I've never been happier than I am now, using OSX Server. coding in WebObjects and Objective-C is absolutely beautiful!
i've played with OSX dp3, and the interface sucks ass. i really hope we can rip out the candy and replace it with a truly useable interface...
He may be known as such, but in reality he's a very cool guy.
My (then) company was working closely with Be several years ago (when they were around 20-30 people) so I got to hang out with them at dev conferences, etc. Truly brilliant engineers.
JLG (as he's called in the Be world) is very caring about his employees, and cool to hang out with. He is strongly opinionated, but there's nothing wrong with that.