XBMC will be the best you can find.
It plays every format you can throw at it ('cause it's based on mPlayer).
It's got a great interface, that's completely skinable, it can run python scripts, it shows stills, plays audio (mp3 ogg ape flac...), plays movies (mpeg 1 2 mpeg4 divx xvid).
One of it's best features is its networkinterface; you can listen to webradio's, watch internet streams, watch apple quicktime trailers, monitor rss streams. To stream files over a network they've developed their own protocols (xns xbms), but you can also just use samba (windows networking).
The music player has a nice library system, and is also capable of showing album art in the file interface as well as on top of visualisations;
since a few weeks it also shows milkdrop visualisations.
Another perk is that you've got an xbox, meaning you've got a dvd drive and a hard disk, and a pentium 733 processor. Store your movies on the hard drive, play a regular dvd, save apple quicktime trailers to the hd, use the ftp server that is included in xbmc to get some files off your xbox to your computer. And you know what?...
It sounds shocking , but you can play XBOX games too !
mod points... get your mod points today, call us now, and we'll throw in some more posts about f*cking mod points.
Um,.. at the top if this page it says: "news for nerds, stuff that matters".
Lately I've been reading so much about everyones points I've begun to wonder whether it was some new pokémon-age craze.
So I went to look it up, I searched for mod-point playing cards, mod-point action-figures, mod-point clothes just mod-point merchandising. My search was unsuccesfull. (business opporuntity anyone ?)
C'mon guys, yo know it's just a populatity contest in a nonexisting nerd society;)
this is true..
Installing a fresh windows 98 SE on a fairly new pc and then doing windows update, there is an update witch this description:
The Windows IDE Hard Drive Cache Package provides a workaround to a recently identified issue with computers that have the combination of Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) hard disk drives with large caches and newer/faster processors. Computers with this combination may risk losing data if the hard disk shuts down before it can preserve the data in its cache.
This update introduces a slight delay in the shutdown process. The delay of two seconds allows the hard drive's onboard cache to write any data to the hard drive.
I've had to deal with this in on a smaller scale in my students home. There are some 100 computers here, connected by (cheap) unmanaged switches. The users often even connect their own extra switches to serve their needs. The connection to the outside wolrd is a debian router.
If a virus struck before our scheme it was like a World war I battlefield and the phone was ringing around the clock.
So, you ask what our idea was ? We've 'eliminated' the peer-to-peer aspect. the debian routers is now a PPPoE dail-in server. And instead of all the clients having tcp/ip installed to their network cards they have it installed on a PPPoE dail-out adapter.
This provides us with the possibility to limit a users acces to its peers when it is infected. In fact, if a computer is infected, it still has internet access, be it limited.
If the infection persists they get locked-out, but only after so many warnings.
We've been happy with the setup for a year now. It's an difficult way... but it's cheap wich is more important in eductation these day anyway.
An added value is the os ondependance, much other alternatives have specific os needs. There are ppp adapters for every os i've coma across (I wonder if DOS has one !? )
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this is untrue:
One of the basic ideas od the EU is:
Free Traffic Of Persons And Goods
So it's perfectly legal.
As far as the tax systems go, they are not comparable. In Europ due to the 'socialist' (=/= comunist) system in most countries, the 'IRS' knows what you've earned, you only have to fill in extra investments and such.Yo don't have to declare each and every expense
Specific taxes and prohibitions are easily evaded here in the EU. I do a monthly tour of the EU, filling up my stock.
Cd's and dvd's from luxemburg, no tax on them there(and while i'm there I also buy cigarettes and booze because of the low taxes)
Cannabis from holland
computer hardware from germany
Living in Belgium makes it easy to pop into those different countries in one day. You have to look at the EU as a supermarket, picking the best from every country.
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XBMC will be the best you can find. It plays every format you can throw at it ('cause it's based on mPlayer).
...), plays movies (mpeg 1 2 mpeg4 divx xvid).
...
It's got a great interface, that's completely skinable, it can run python scripts, it shows stills, plays audio (mp3 ogg ape flac
One of it's best features is its networkinterface; you can listen to webradio's, watch internet streams, watch apple quicktime trailers, monitor rss streams. To stream files over a network they've developed their own protocols (xns xbms), but you can also just use samba (windows networking).
The music player has a nice library system, and is also capable of showing album art in the file interface as well as on top of visualisations;
since a few weeks it also shows milkdrop visualisations.
Another perk is that you've got an xbox, meaning you've got a dvd drive and a hard disk, and a pentium 733 processor. Store your movies on the hard drive, play a regular dvd, save apple quicktime trailers to the hd, use the ftp server that is included in xbmc to get some files off your xbox to your computer. And you know what?
It sounds shocking , but you can play XBOX games too !
mod points ... get your mod points today,
;)
call us now, and we'll throw in some more posts about f*cking mod points.
Um,.. at the top if this page it says: "news for nerds, stuff that matters".
Lately I've been reading so much about everyones points I've begun to wonder whether it was some new pokémon-age craze.
So I went to look it up, I searched for mod-point playing cards, mod-point action-figures, mod-point clothes just mod-point merchandising. My search was unsuccesfull. (business opporuntity anyone ?)
C'mon guys, yo know it's just a populatity contest in a nonexisting nerd society
this is true ..
Installing a fresh windows 98 SE on a fairly new pc and then doing windows update, there is an update witch this description:
e nts/WUCritical/q273017/Default.asp
The Windows IDE Hard Drive Cache Package provides a workaround to a recently identified issue with computers that have the combination of Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) hard disk drives with large caches and newer/faster processors. Computers with this combination may risk losing data if the hard disk shuts down before it can preserve the data in its cache.
This update introduces a slight delay in the shutdown process. The delay of two seconds allows the hard drive's onboard cache to write any data to the hard drive.
I found it nice to see how M$ worked around it, just waiting 2 seconds, how ingenious !
link to the M$ update site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/cont
If a virus struck before our scheme it was like a World war I battlefield and the phone was ringing around the clock.
So, you ask what our idea was ? We've 'eliminated' the peer-to-peer aspect. the debian routers is now a PPPoE dail-in server. And instead of all the clients having tcp/ip installed to their network cards they have it installed on a PPPoE dail-out adapter.
This provides us with the possibility to limit a users acces to its peers when it is infected. In fact, if a computer is infected, it still has internet access, be it limited. If the infection persists they get locked-out, but only after so many warnings.
We've been happy with the setup for a year now. It's an difficult way ... but it's cheap wich is more important in eductation these day anyway.
An added value is the os ondependance, much other alternatives have specific os needs. There are ppp adapters for every os i've coma across (I wonder if DOS has one !? )
this is untrue: One of the basic ideas od the EU is: Free Traffic Of Persons And Goods So it's perfectly legal. As far as the tax systems go, they are not comparable. In Europ due to the 'socialist' (=/= comunist) system in most countries, the 'IRS' knows what you've earned, you only have to fill in extra investments and such.Yo don't have to declare each and every expense
- Cd's and dvd's from luxemburg, no tax on them there(and while i'm there I also buy cigarettes and booze because of the low taxes)
- Cannabis from holland
- computer hardware from germany
Living in Belgium makes it easy to pop into those different countries in one day. You have to look at the EU as a supermarket, picking the best from every country.