Combine with an asrock ion 330 mimi itx box, and I think I've found my next htpc. Looks like it supports hardware acceleration of BBC iplayer, too. Count me in...!
I'm a long term XBMC-on-Xbox user and I'm looking for something that duplicates it, but with better HD support. It's gotta be livign room friendly - my original Xbox can be operated entirely with my logitech harmony remote, and I don't need to dig out a keyboard to eject the DVD or anything dumb. Can I do all this with XBMC running on a mini ITX ION-based rig?
It's a lot easier to have a decent, known-good PSU in your testing kit. Seriously, swapping out components with known-good ones is the fastest way of proving hardware failure. This plus experience means you'll be able to narrow down the fault accurately.
For what it's worth, the biggest causes of tempramental machines are bad ram, and bad PSU. All sorts of weird behaviour can be attributed to these.
Swap 'em out, and run through an hour of Prime95 and if it passes the torture test, you're probably good.
yup. And consider that in a society where you pay through the nose for your treatment, it's going to encourage this kind of attitude to those that can't pay through no fault of their own.
In the UK our National Health Service isn't perfect, but it's bloody good - no-ones' stopping you taking out private health insurance if you want to supplement it, but the base level of care is available to all. One of the most surreal arguments I've seen recently has been the hysterical reaction to Obama's proposals, shouting about death panels for Grandma etc. It'd be hilarious if it wasnt' so scary.
Not quite. To eat your own dogfood means that you use something that you or your company have developed, which isn't quite ready for general consumption - it's in beta, it's buggy, the GUI's not quite there and you're using it before it's available on sale or to the public.
Jailbreak it and install SBsettings. A swipe across the top of the screen gives you a pop up window with nice on/off buttons for all hardware features, plus there are plugins available for it for many other apps/services so it can be added to. It's a great app, and worth jailbreaking for itself.
I have toggles for 3g, bluetooth, brightness, keepawake (stops it going into standby for when I'm downloading something), phone, processes (kill unwanted processes or ones that don't exit cleanly), ssh, scrobble, wifi and also have shortcuts to respring and reboot. It's worth having.
Whilst this is funny, doing this is liable to risk geting you shitcanned. Banking's a highly regulated industry. PCI, DSS, etc regulations mandate levels of access security, with stiff penatlities from financial regulators and VISA, Mastercard et al. In theory this shoul dmean a mandated locking screensaver, etc, but this regulatory control is why most work places will have a policy stating that unauthorised access to another's machine is a diciplinary offence. Don't give someone the rope with which to hang you...
No, I'm fine with speed cameras. They automate a necessary practice of reducing the number of speeding motorists.
A set of laws specifying exactly what type/colour/shape of device you can or can't hold in your hand whilst driving isn't automating anything, it's just legal noise.
You can get them working at the same time: I've done it.
For MMS to work, you need to be running the 3.0 firmware. If you jailbreak this (and you can't jailbreak 3.1 so don't use that) then you can get hacked carrier files that enable tethering. For MMS you *also* need the carrier to enable MMS on your account. This should do it.
I am presuming that currently any 3.0 or above iPhone users on AT&T have the GUI options to send MMS, but that they just don't work yet as the subscriber's account doesn't have MMS enabled?
Many don't. Certainly in the UK this isn't normal. And you have no way of telling if a receipient's network has this feature, making it unlikely to be useful.
in the UK, on O2, one MMS counts as four SMS as part of your allowance. Actually seems kind of fair. Contrast with the additional £15 a month they want from you before they'll allow any tethering.
The first guy that homebrews a man-portable HERF gun is just going to *vanish*. Far too much risk to established society - point it at a colo in a financial district full of servers, point it at a hospital, point it at an aircraft: the list goes on. Didn't Neal Stephenson cover this in one of his novels in depth?
Scenario: peaceful protest taking place. Police struggling to disperse as no laws actually being broken. Small number of agitators then break a bank's window. Police witness criminal damage, now have excuse to disperse protest.
There are already (I'm in the UK) laws against driving without due care and attention. They passed a law to specifically cover sending text messages, and generally touching your phone at all (i.e. a bluetooth headset is OK, but hand-dialling isn't) which you can kind of understand, but what's next? Passing a law making it illegal to eat an apple whilst driving? To tune your car radio?
The point is there are a large number of activities that are a Bad Idea whilst driving, including talking to passengers. You don't need a law for each and every one.
Paypal in the UK doesn't offer the Security key, but they do offer SMS confirmation to your phone. I'm presuming they've implemented this in such a way that you can't steal the password and login and change your mobile phone number without this feature!
If done well, this is quite neat: raises the security without adding a cost.
No, it's a dumb decison. Take the most popular smartphone - the iPhone. I have one running Tomtom Navigator, and I also have a standalone Tomtom 720.
They're pretty much identical: approximately the same size screen, no hardware buttons - just touchscreen, with the same interface. Why should they be treated differently?
My old WinMo handsets running Tomtom were much the same: same interface, same operation.
More likely Intel used the motherboard (sorry, "logic board", Macfans!) from a Mac Pro, maybe with a bit of modification. This is hardware tech, built by Intel at the behest of Apple. They needed hardware to run it on...
Magsafe's a funny one. On the con side, it's patented so you can't buy replacements from anyone other than Apple, and you can't buy your own connector to repair a broken PSU - it's a closed standard. On the pro side, it's genuinely useful on a laptop in that a significant number of broken laptops are down to someone tripping over the power cable and breaking the connector on the motherboard. On balance, I'll accept this as the benefits outweigh the pitfalls.
I'm not so sure I'd accept the same for ethernet/usb/DVI connectors, though. I can forsee Apple wanting to put a DRM chip in the cables and devices to only allow approved devices to connect to it, in much the same way they enforced this on video out cables on iPhones past OS 3.0, when the software disabled video out on previously working mini jack to phono adaptors...
Imagine the crap gadgets that'll come out of Hong Kong on the back of this though. Not just USB-powered coffee warmers, we'll have USB3 fairy lights, star projectors...
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Combine with an asrock ion 330 mimi itx box, and I think I've found my next htpc. Looks like it supports hardware acceleration of BBC iplayer, too. Count me in...!
I'm a long term XBMC-on-Xbox user and I'm looking for something that duplicates it, but with better HD support. It's gotta be livign room friendly - my original Xbox can be operated entirely with my logitech harmony remote, and I don't need to dig out a keyboard to eject the DVD or anything dumb. Can I do all this with XBMC running on a mini ITX ION-based rig?
It's a lot easier to have a decent, known-good PSU in your testing kit. Seriously, swapping out components with known-good ones is the fastest way of proving hardware failure. This plus experience means you'll be able to narrow down the fault accurately.
For what it's worth, the biggest causes of tempramental machines are bad ram, and bad PSU. All sorts of weird behaviour can be attributed to these.
Swap 'em out, and run through an hour of Prime95 and if it passes the torture test, you're probably good.
yup. And consider that in a society where you pay through the nose for your treatment, it's going to encourage this kind of attitude to those that can't pay through no fault of their own.
In the UK our National Health Service isn't perfect, but it's bloody good - no-ones' stopping you taking out private health insurance if you want to supplement it, but the base level of care is available to all. One of the most surreal arguments I've seen recently has been the hysterical reaction to Obama's proposals, shouting about death panels for Grandma etc. It'd be hilarious if it wasnt' so scary.
Rubbish. Snow Leopard is Intel only. It does not install on PPC Macs.
it's a bit hard to do keyword/traffic analysis on an encrypted exchange of email, though, which is what pays for your free Gmail...
Not quite. To eat your own dogfood means that you use something that you or your company have developed, which isn't quite ready for general consumption - it's in beta, it's buggy, the GUI's not quite there and you're using it before it's available on sale or to the public.
Just give them one format and let their professional archivists sort it out: that's their job, after all.
Jailbreak it and install SBsettings. A swipe across the top of the screen gives you a pop up window with nice on/off buttons for all hardware features, plus there are plugins available for it for many other apps/services so it can be added to. It's a great app, and worth jailbreaking for itself.
I have toggles for 3g, bluetooth, brightness, keepawake (stops it going into standby for when I'm downloading something), phone, processes (kill unwanted processes or ones that don't exit cleanly), ssh, scrobble, wifi and also have shortcuts to respring and reboot. It's worth having.
Whilst this is funny, doing this is liable to risk geting you shitcanned. Banking's a highly regulated industry. PCI, DSS, etc regulations mandate levels of access security, with stiff penatlities from financial regulators and VISA, Mastercard et al. In theory this shoul dmean a mandated locking screensaver, etc, but this regulatory control is why most work places will have a policy stating that unauthorised access to another's machine is a diciplinary offence. Don't give someone the rope with which to hang you...
What happens when you point a disruption laser not at a camera, but at a telescope with a human eye on the end of it?
No, I'm fine with speed cameras. They automate a necessary practice of reducing the number of speeding motorists.
A set of laws specifying exactly what type/colour/shape of device you can or can't hold in your hand whilst driving isn't automating anything, it's just legal noise.
You can get them working at the same time: I've done it. For MMS to work, you need to be running the 3.0 firmware. If you jailbreak this (and you can't jailbreak 3.1 so don't use that) then you can get hacked carrier files that enable tethering. For MMS you *also* need the carrier to enable MMS on your account. This should do it.
I am presuming that currently any 3.0 or above iPhone users on AT&T have the GUI options to send MMS, but that they just don't work yet as the subscriber's account doesn't have MMS enabled?
Many don't. Certainly in the UK this isn't normal. And you have no way of telling if a receipient's network has this feature, making it unlikely to be useful.
in the UK, on O2, one MMS counts as four SMS as part of your allowance. Actually seems kind of fair. Contrast with the additional £15 a month they want from you before they'll allow any tethering.
The first guy that homebrews a man-portable HERF gun is just going to *vanish*. Far too much risk to established society - point it at a colo in a financial district full of servers, point it at a hospital, point it at an aircraft: the list goes on. Didn't Neal Stephenson cover this in one of his novels in depth?
Scenario: peaceful protest taking place. Police struggling to disperse as no laws actually being broken. Small number of agitators then break a bank's window. Police witness criminal damage, now have excuse to disperse protest.
What, and become a victim of our foreign policy?
With apologies to Bill Hicks
There are already (I'm in the UK) laws against driving without due care and attention. They passed a law to specifically cover sending text messages, and generally touching your phone at all (i.e. a bluetooth headset is OK, but hand-dialling isn't) which you can kind of understand, but what's next? Passing a law making it illegal to eat an apple whilst driving? To tune your car radio?
The point is there are a large number of activities that are a Bad Idea whilst driving, including talking to passengers. You don't need a law for each and every one.
unless it's an iPhone, which doesn't support this!
Paypal in the UK doesn't offer the Security key, but they do offer SMS confirmation to your phone. I'm presuming they've implemented this in such a way that you can't steal the password and login and change your mobile phone number without this feature!
If done well, this is quite neat: raises the security without adding a cost.
No, it's a dumb decison. Take the most popular smartphone - the iPhone. I have one running Tomtom Navigator, and I also have a standalone Tomtom 720. They're pretty much identical: approximately the same size screen, no hardware buttons - just touchscreen, with the same interface. Why should they be treated differently? My old WinMo handsets running Tomtom were much the same: same interface, same operation.
More likely Intel used the motherboard (sorry, "logic board", Macfans!) from a Mac Pro, maybe with a bit of modification. This is hardware tech, built by Intel at the behest of Apple. They needed hardware to run it on...
Magsafe's a funny one. On the con side, it's patented so you can't buy replacements from anyone other than Apple, and you can't buy your own connector to repair a broken PSU - it's a closed standard. On the pro side, it's genuinely useful on a laptop in that a significant number of broken laptops are down to someone tripping over the power cable and breaking the connector on the motherboard. On balance, I'll accept this as the benefits outweigh the pitfalls.
I'm not so sure I'd accept the same for ethernet/usb/DVI connectors, though. I can forsee Apple wanting to put a DRM chip in the cables and devices to only allow approved devices to connect to it, in much the same way they enforced this on video out cables on iPhones past OS 3.0, when the software disabled video out on previously working mini jack to phono adaptors...
Imagine the crap gadgets that'll come out of Hong Kong on the back of this though. Not just USB-powered coffee warmers, we'll have USB3 fairy lights, star projectors...