Me too,
I have a Kiss DP1500, which is DVD/MPEG-4/DivX?/XviD/CD/MP3/Ogg Vorbis/CD-RW/DVD+-RW/JPEG/MPG/MPEG compatable.
Has built in Ethernet port and PCMCIA slot for a Wi-Fi card and the firmware is upgradeable.
The only files it doesn't play (yet?) is Realmedia, Windows Media & videos encoded with AC3 sound.
Excellent bit of kit and cheap too...
If it's 'cheap but functional' you're after, what about the Cybiko Xtreme?
Aimed at teens but looks like an affordable solution for what being discussed here.
The ever misguided UK Labour Government backing IT offshoring & IT economic migrants coupled with a shaky post 9/11 economy did indeed cause the UK IT jobs market to crash due to oversaturation.
From what I've read the effect in the US was generally just as bad if not worse.
Out of work IT staff where willing to settle for less pay than they would have had in 2000, many just changed careers due to the lack of work available.
As a consultant at the time, I spent over 12 months out of work and I'm still stuggling to break even to this day because of it despite now being in regular work.
Now, the jobs are coming back but the offered rates for the majority of admin, web dev & support workers have stayed low across most UK sectors, about half of what they 4 years ago.
It's no wonder the now volatile IT industry has lost it's appeal in the eyes of budding students.
Groupwise does of course support HTML. (Goto.. Tools, Options, Environment, then pick your default read & compose views).
I think the main issues between HTML mails and security was predominantly (dare I say it..) an MS software issue. There was (maybe still is) a spate of malicious HTML spam emails which where able to load a file when viewed, by transferring it from an external site in an invisible/tiny iFrame in the mail's HTML code, then the ActiveX enabled email client would happily go ahead and execute said nasty file. The obvious way of avoiding this at the time was to only view all emails in plain text.
Nowadays MS have sorted out those Outlook/OE vunerabilities so they don't auto-load objects from external paths by default, Hotmail & Gmail webmail users will notice the same thing. If your company's clients are not up to date, they should be, although your main defense should at the network's or mail server's point of entry.
HTML email is often considered bad netiquette due to the extra space, and bandwidth that it consumes.
* P2-266M laptop runs XP (SP1a to avoid 'Event ID 4226') - Internet gateway, firewall & network AV montoring.
* P4 1.7G tower runs SuSE - general PC, file server, 24/7 P2P slave;)
* Centrino 2G lappy runs XPSP2/SuSE - The every-day PC.
* Ethernet enabled standalone DVD/MP3/MPEG4 player - A cheap & cheerful CD/DVD/LAN based media player
* Not to forget my PS2;)
All does me proud...
Archos's new touch screen, WiFi, Linux based PMA400 PVR looks as if it could be a cool edition to the home media network.
...the RAID isn't going to give you anything.
Having a single 500GB drive instead of spreading your data across 2 drives would be more convenient.
I do agree with others here that using GbE instead of firewire would be the easier, faster & cheaper option.
Unibrain http://www.unibrain.com/1394_products/1394_network ing/firenet_mac.htm has a IP over FW solution for the Mac but it costs just as much as a GbE card.
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Wow!
:D
Does it run in WINE?
Or better still...
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Forgot to mensh that Kiss players also supports .srt external subtitle files for those foreign MPEG4 movies
"YOU KILLED MY MASTER!!!!!"
Me too, I have a Kiss DP1500, which is DVD/MPEG-4/DivX?/XviD/CD/MP3/Ogg Vorbis/CD-RW/DVD+-RW/JPEG/MPG/MPEG compatable. Has built in Ethernet port and PCMCIA slot for a Wi-Fi card and the firmware is upgradeable. The only files it doesn't play (yet?) is Realmedia, Windows Media & videos encoded with AC3 sound. Excellent bit of kit and cheap too...
If it's 'cheap but functional' you're after, what about the Cybiko Xtreme?
Aimed at teens but looks like an affordable solution for what being discussed here.
pwn4g3
FP is no troll, he/she has made a valid point.
The ever misguided UK Labour Government backing IT offshoring & IT economic migrants coupled with a shaky post 9/11 economy did indeed cause the UK IT jobs market to crash due to oversaturation.
From what I've read the effect in the US was generally just as bad if not worse.
Out of work IT staff where willing to settle for less pay than they would have had in 2000, many just changed careers due to the lack of work available.
As a consultant at the time, I spent over 12 months out of work and I'm still stuggling to break even to this day because of it despite now being in regular work.
Now, the jobs are coming back but the offered rates for the majority of admin, web dev & support workers have stayed low across most UK sectors, about half of what they 4 years ago.
It's no wonder the now volatile IT industry has lost it's appeal in the eyes of budding students.
I think the main issues between HTML mails and security was predominantly (dare I say it..) an MS software issue.
There was (maybe still is) a spate of malicious HTML spam emails which where able to load a file when viewed, by transferring it from an external site in an invisible/tiny iFrame in the mail's HTML code, then the ActiveX enabled email client would happily go ahead and execute said nasty file.
The obvious way of avoiding this at the time was to only view all emails in plain text. Nowadays MS have sorted out those Outlook/OE vunerabilities so they don't auto-load objects from external paths by default, Hotmail & Gmail webmail users will notice the same thing. If your company's clients are not up to date, they should be, although your main defense should at the network's or mail server's point of entry.
* P2-266M laptop runs XP (SP1a to avoid 'Event ID 4226') - Internet gateway, firewall & network AV montoring. ;) ;)
* P4 1.7G tower runs SuSE - general PC, file server, 24/7 P2P slave
* Centrino 2G lappy runs XPSP2/SuSE - The every-day PC.
* Ethernet enabled standalone DVD/MP3/MPEG4 player - A cheap & cheerful CD/DVD/LAN based media player
* Not to forget my PS2
All does me proud... Archos's new touch screen, WiFi, Linux based PMA400 PVR looks as if it could be a cool edition to the home media network.
Yeah Cap, good read.
Exactly... That's what I meant, but was too lazy/dozy to fully explain (or correct the formatting of the post). :/
...the RAID isn't going to give you anything. Having a single 500GB drive instead of spreading your data across 2 drives would be more convenient. I do agree with others here that using GbE instead of firewire would be the easier, faster & cheaper option. Unibrain http://www.unibrain.com/1394_products/1394_network ing/firenet_mac.htm has a IP over FW solution for the Mac but it costs just as much as a GbE card.
The K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (free download) enables playback of pretty much anything in Windows Media Player, including DVD,Real,Quicktime.