Wow, aren't we a intellegent one, can't even reply to the proper replay.
I was only merely posing a question. You run SuSE Linux, good for you, do you want a cookie or something?
Who are you to tell me how to spend my money? Where are you pulling this stuff that I do not play games? Are we making stuff up now, have you run out of valid things to day, not that you have had any valid things to say yet. You are just angree at the world and also Microsoft it seems. Whatever, no skin off of my teeth.
I do however find your ignorant comments rather funny. You rag on Microsoft, yet you have already said you will never own a Xbox. Really, talk about being narrow minded. It is one thing to say you don't like the Xbox because of x, y and z. But to make stupid, ignotant and clueless comments about something you know next to nothing about and never will. Just makes you look dumber and dumber.
Man, you are just pathetic. Expand you horizens, don't be so ignorant and narrow minded. Maybe you will have fun, or something.
Can't you just accept that MS may actually do something right? I have thoroughly enjoyed my Xbox and still am. I don't own a Xbox 360 yet, but eventually will. It is nice to see something new in the console world, to shake things up. It was getting rather static with just Sorny and Nintendo.
The Xbox platform is a great one. Such that if you are a gamer on a budget or limited time, it is perfectly fine to only own. It more than can hold its ground in that aspect.
Anti-MS people really make me laugh, some are just downright pathetic. I am not an avid supporter of MS, in fact, if it wasn't for work and my fiancée, I wouldn't be using Windows or Windows based products at all. But I am not going to limit myself by a stupid hatred. To dismiss something just because it is MS is just silly, especially to say that you will never try. Talk about being closed-minded. Though, I guess it is a Apple Zealot thing you have going on.
While we are on the subject of sourced based movies, specifically comic based. I would have to say that Sin City is the best comic to movie, if not the best whatever to movie out there.
There is a huge surge of comic to movie right now. With some great, some good and a lot... down right ugly. At least they are better then what they use to be, the three that pop into mind right away are: The Shadow, The Phantom and Spawn.
Sin City raised the bar, probably too high that we probably will never see another executed so well. For those whom have not read the comic or seen the movie, you really owe it to yourself to do so. If not for anything else just to see what a near perfect execution of staying true to the source that it is. I doubt everyone will like the movie, I don't expect everyone too, and we all have different tastes. But when you can flip through the comic book and see that exact scene, setup to near perfection on the screen. Read the comic before you watch the movie and if you can, flip through the comic during the movie. It is just something that leaves me in awe, a movie so true to its source, especially with the state Hollywood is in these days.
I give a lot Robert Rodriguez for demanding that Frank Miller was a major role of the film. I cannot confirm the validity to this, but I Robert Rodriguez told the Directors Guild off when they were getting pissy about Frank Miller major involvement with the movie. I also have to give a lot of credit to Frank Miller himself, for sticking to his guns and making the movie so true to the comic.
I do have a few problems with the movie however. My first one is the use of color when it wasn't used in the comic. It is only minor, very minor, but still it is different and it bugs me. Though, I am sure Frank Miller had his reasons and it is his book and his movie. The other was a few scenes were left out, nothing too major. But it bugs me when you can flip through the comic book and easily follow the movie, that scenes are that precious with each other. Lastly, the use of Jessica Alba as Nancy. Firstly, because she is a horrible actress, but mainly because she has a no nude clause. If you read the comic, you know the Nancy is topless. It just bugs me that because of a stupid actress selection, they couldn't stay true to the book.
Another major reason why Apple faded out of the US school system is they cut their incentives. They simply were not good enough anymore to justify the cost difference between the systems.
I am still bitter at Crapular for what they did to my beautiful AT&T Wireless network. I live in the Twin Cities and AT&T had the best service for the area. That all changed a year ago from last October when Crapular finally took over. I went from almost no dropped calls and great reception to many dropped calls and piss poor reception. I couldn't even get good reception in my apartment when before, I got full strength.
All times I called them, many many times, I got the same answer. Nothing has changed, but we have heard these complaints. They offered nothing beyond that, not even we are working on that. Their customer service went down the pisser too, which they had the same response as they did to the service problems.
From my dealings with Crapular, it doesn't surprise me that they are pulling something like this.
You are making the Pronto software sound worse than it really is. The software can leave a little to be desired, but it holds a huge list of codes for remotes out there. It allows you to create a preset screen with the codes for you, this is already built in and not CCF files out on the internet. Plus, having it learn commands is a snap, much easier than MK2000i learning remote that came with my Marantz receiver.
As far as macro's, I personally rather set them up. How is a remote going to magically know if I have my DVD player hooked up to a input on my pre/pro or directly to my TV? The macros couldn't be easier to create, all you need to know is how you do it manually and then just replicate that in the software.
The Logitech Harmony is just the Average Joe Six pack remote, it is geared to be easy, which also leaves it limited. Sure it can do more than your average learning or programmable remote, even compared to what I sue to think as a amazing remote, the Philips MK2000 remote that came with my Marantz receiver. The software interface makes it nice and much easier to setup, but it simply cannot beat the sheer customizability that the Pronto line up offers you. I have completely customized how my Pronto works, I have created my own screens and buttons. I can even replicate the layout of all the remotes I have, which comes in handy for when you get used to a remote.
As for the hard buttons, I don't see it being a big deal. The hard buttons it has cover all the basic things you would do while watching TV or a movie. Even that, the touch screen lights up and emits enough light for you to easily use the remote even under pitch black conditions. Plus the indigo like glow is pretty!
The Pronto does have some short comings, like we talked about, but what remote doesn't? But when you are talking about a remote that can be totally customized in every aspect, look no further than the Philips Pronto line-up. No remote, with in reason (like those home automation setups), can come close to what the Pronto can do. Besides, when we are talking about going balls to the wall and overkill like this Godzilla PVR, would you really want to include a limiting remote?
I was in the same situation with you with hiding my equipment. However, not buy choice, the fiancée demanded it. I guess the price I have to pay for true love, though it isn't all bad, the cabinets that they went in look amazing. Anyways, I caught a break with IR extender. My Mitsubishi TV comes with IR extenders built into the TV. When I first bought it, I thought it was stupid and pointless, needless to say, I don't think that now.
Unfortunately, I will be in your boot before too long. The TV is going to be hitting 4 years old this May, that isn't exactly the problem, it is still a great looking TV. The problems lies in that I got it 1 year before DVI really hit the market. Which if you know anything about HD-DVD or Blu-ray (I really hope Blu-ray goes the way of the dodo and Betamax), they are forcing us to use HDCP either via DVI or HDMI. The early adopters like me are left high and dry, well that is unless the $300 devices that can remove HDCP come down in price in the next year or so. Most likely, I will be buying a new HDTV, which isn't all bad. We will be moving once more in about a year into a house, the 300 lbs+ HDTV doesn't make for a easy or friendly move.
I used a similar method, though not raid and not gigabit nic.
I decided I needed a centralized storage place for my media. I took an old PIII Celeron I had laying around with on board video and lan. I then bought a 4 port Promise SATA card and two 250 GB Seagate SATA hard drives. I installed slackware, stripped it down while making sure it had NFS support and LVM support and finally configured it. I got it down small enough to run off of a 64 MB flash card, that was just a fun side project.
I went with LVM since it would be easier to manage, plus I wanted my data to all be on what seemed to be one drive. I didn't want to have to have a bunch of directories that I would have to drill down in. I don't have the money currently to setup a RAID setup with integrity support. LVM appealed to me because I can add and remove drives very easily. I can also swap drives out very easily. I don't have all that much experience or knowledge with RAID, but it just didn't seem like it would be as easy.
Now this computer is on a 100 Mbit network. I have been able to stream movie, DVD quality, to my HTPC and Roku PhotoBridge with out any problems. Obviously, music and pictures are fine since video works.
I am currently sitting at 1.5 TB, with only 11 GB left. It is a Jerry ridged case, al though I plan on custom building one (to save money) to house all the HDDs and fans to cool them. LVM only goes up to 2 TB from what I have read, but that shouldn't be a problem as 8 drives take up a lot of space and require a descent power supply. I will just start the project all over again after I add drives 7 and 8. Though, I am unsure how I am going to migrate all the data to look as one big directory.
It has been up and running strong for almost half a year now. Obviously minus the times it had to be shutdown to physically install the drives. I got a large portion of my DVD collection archived to it along with CDs and my photos. Has worked out very well for what I needed it for. I just need a house now with a place to have a rack-mount to hide all this crap. The fiancée isn't a fan of computers laying all over the place and being in the room, although, surprisingly, it isn't that loud.
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I have never even heard of that game, guess it wasn't popular on the college circuit.
Wow, aren't we a intellegent one, can't even reply to the proper replay.
I was only merely posing a question. You run SuSE Linux, good for you, do you want a cookie or something?
Who are you to tell me how to spend my money? Where are you pulling this stuff that I do not play games? Are we making stuff up now, have you run out of valid things to day, not that you have had any valid things to say yet. You are just angree at the world and also Microsoft it seems. Whatever, no skin off of my teeth.
I do however find your ignorant comments rather funny. You rag on Microsoft, yet you have already said you will never own a Xbox. Really, talk about being narrow minded. It is one thing to say you don't like the Xbox because of x, y and z. But to make stupid, ignotant and clueless comments about something you know next to nothing about and never will. Just makes you look dumber and dumber.
Man, you are just pathetic. Expand you horizens, don't be so ignorant and narrow minded. Maybe you will have fun, or something.
Wow, just wow plus throw in pathetic there.
Can't you just accept that MS may actually do something right? I have thoroughly enjoyed my Xbox and still am. I don't own a Xbox 360 yet, but eventually will. It is nice to see something new in the console world, to shake things up. It was getting rather static with just Sorny and Nintendo.
The Xbox platform is a great one. Such that if you are a gamer on a budget or limited time, it is perfectly fine to only own. It more than can hold its ground in that aspect.
Anti-MS people really make me laugh, some are just downright pathetic. I am not an avid supporter of MS, in fact, if it wasn't for work and my fiancée, I wouldn't be using Windows or Windows based products at all. But I am not going to limit myself by a stupid hatred. To dismiss something just because it is MS is just silly, especially to say that you will never try. Talk about being closed-minded. Though, I guess it is a Apple Zealot thing you have going on.
While we are on the subject of sourced based movies, specifically comic based. I would have to say that Sin City is the best comic to movie, if not the best whatever to movie out there.
There is a huge surge of comic to movie right now. With some great, some good and a lot... down right ugly. At least they are better then what they use to be, the three that pop into mind right away are: The Shadow, The Phantom and Spawn.
Sin City raised the bar, probably too high that we probably will never see another executed so well. For those whom have not read the comic or seen the movie, you really owe it to yourself to do so. If not for anything else just to see what a near perfect execution of staying true to the source that it is. I doubt everyone will like the movie, I don't expect everyone too, and we all have different tastes. But when you can flip through the comic book and see that exact scene, setup to near perfection on the screen. Read the comic before you watch the movie and if you can, flip through the comic during the movie. It is just something that leaves me in awe, a movie so true to its source, especially with the state Hollywood is in these days.
I give a lot Robert Rodriguez for demanding that Frank Miller was a major role of the film. I cannot confirm the validity to this, but I Robert Rodriguez told the Directors Guild off when they were getting pissy about Frank Miller major involvement with the movie. I also have to give a lot of credit to Frank Miller himself, for sticking to his guns and making the movie so true to the comic.
I do have a few problems with the movie however. My first one is the use of color when it wasn't used in the comic. It is only minor, very minor, but still it is different and it bugs me. Though, I am sure Frank Miller had his reasons and it is his book and his movie. The other was a few scenes were left out, nothing too major. But it bugs me when you can flip through the comic book and easily follow the movie, that scenes are that precious with each other. Lastly, the use of Jessica Alba as Nancy. Firstly, because she is a horrible actress, but mainly because she has a no nude clause. If you read the comic, you know the Nancy is topless. It just bugs me that because of a stupid actress selection, they couldn't stay true to the book.
Do Not Resuscitate.
Duke Nukem had its chance, blew it (multiple times) and has been dragged along like a piece of toilet paper stuck to the button of a shoe.
It is always easy to look back on something and comment on it. At the time, it was a real possibility.
Another major reason why Apple faded out of the US school system is they cut their incentives. They simply were not good enough anymore to justify the cost difference between the systems.
I am still bitter at Crapular for what they did to my beautiful AT&T Wireless network. I live in the Twin Cities and AT&T had the best service for the area. That all changed a year ago from last October when Crapular finally took over. I went from almost no dropped calls and great reception to many dropped calls and piss poor reception. I couldn't even get good reception in my apartment when before, I got full strength.
All times I called them, many many times, I got the same answer. Nothing has changed, but we have heard these complaints. They offered nothing beyond that, not even we are working on that. Their customer service went down the pisser too, which they had the same response as they did to the service problems.
From my dealings with Crapular, it doesn't surprise me that they are pulling something like this.
You are making the Pronto software sound worse than it really is. The software can leave a little to be desired, but it holds a huge list of codes for remotes out there. It allows you to create a preset screen with the codes for you, this is already built in and not CCF files out on the internet. Plus, having it learn commands is a snap, much easier than MK2000i learning remote that came with my Marantz receiver.
As far as macro's, I personally rather set them up. How is a remote going to magically know if I have my DVD player hooked up to a input on my pre/pro or directly to my TV? The macros couldn't be easier to create, all you need to know is how you do it manually and then just replicate that in the software.
The Logitech Harmony is just the Average Joe Six pack remote, it is geared to be easy, which also leaves it limited. Sure it can do more than your average learning or programmable remote, even compared to what I sue to think as a amazing remote, the Philips MK2000 remote that came with my Marantz receiver. The software interface makes it nice and much easier to setup, but it simply cannot beat the sheer customizability that the Pronto line up offers you. I have completely customized how my Pronto works, I have created my own screens and buttons. I can even replicate the layout of all the remotes I have, which comes in handy for when you get used to a remote.
As for the hard buttons, I don't see it being a big deal. The hard buttons it has cover all the basic things you would do while watching TV or a movie. Even that, the touch screen lights up and emits enough light for you to easily use the remote even under pitch black conditions. Plus the indigo like glow is pretty!
The Pronto does have some short comings, like we talked about, but what remote doesn't? But when you are talking about a remote that can be totally customized in every aspect, look no further than the Philips Pronto line-up. No remote, with in reason (like those home automation setups), can come close to what the Pronto can do. Besides, when we are talking about going balls to the wall and overkill like this Godzilla PVR, would you really want to include a limiting remote?
I was in the same situation with you with hiding my equipment. However, not buy choice, the fiancée demanded it. I guess the price I have to pay for true love, though it isn't all bad, the cabinets that they went in look amazing. Anyways, I caught a break with IR extender. My Mitsubishi TV comes with IR extenders built into the TV. When I first bought it, I thought it was stupid and pointless, needless to say, I don't think that now.
Unfortunately, I will be in your boot before too long. The TV is going to be hitting 4 years old this May, that isn't exactly the problem, it is still a great looking TV. The problems lies in that I got it 1 year before DVI really hit the market. Which if you know anything about HD-DVD or Blu-ray (I really hope Blu-ray goes the way of the dodo and Betamax), they are forcing us to use HDCP either via DVI or HDMI. The early adopters like me are left high and dry, well that is unless the $300 devices that can remove HDCP come down in price in the next year or so. Most likely, I will be buying a new HDTV, which isn't all bad. We will be moving once more in about a year into a house, the 300 lbs+ HDTV doesn't make for a easy or friendly move.
If you want a descent remote, sure, go with a Logitech Harmoney 890.
If you want a amazing remote, go with a Philips Pronto NG or better yet the ProntoPro NG or way better yet the iPronto.
I have the Pronto NG and for $200, it is a steal, not to mention a killer remote to end all remotes.
I used a similar method, though not raid and not gigabit nic. I decided I needed a centralized storage place for my media. I took an old PIII Celeron I had laying around with on board video and lan. I then bought a 4 port Promise SATA card and two 250 GB Seagate SATA hard drives. I installed slackware, stripped it down while making sure it had NFS support and LVM support and finally configured it. I got it down small enough to run off of a 64 MB flash card, that was just a fun side project. I went with LVM since it would be easier to manage, plus I wanted my data to all be on what seemed to be one drive. I didn't want to have to have a bunch of directories that I would have to drill down in. I don't have the money currently to setup a RAID setup with integrity support. LVM appealed to me because I can add and remove drives very easily. I can also swap drives out very easily. I don't have all that much experience or knowledge with RAID, but it just didn't seem like it would be as easy. Now this computer is on a 100 Mbit network. I have been able to stream movie, DVD quality, to my HTPC and Roku PhotoBridge with out any problems. Obviously, music and pictures are fine since video works. I am currently sitting at 1.5 TB, with only 11 GB left. It is a Jerry ridged case, al though I plan on custom building one (to save money) to house all the HDDs and fans to cool them. LVM only goes up to 2 TB from what I have read, but that shouldn't be a problem as 8 drives take up a lot of space and require a descent power supply. I will just start the project all over again after I add drives 7 and 8. Though, I am unsure how I am going to migrate all the data to look as one big directory. It has been up and running strong for almost half a year now. Obviously minus the times it had to be shutdown to physically install the drives. I got a large portion of my DVD collection archived to it along with CDs and my photos. Has worked out very well for what I needed it for. I just need a house now with a place to have a rack-mount to hide all this crap. The fiancée isn't a fan of computers laying all over the place and being in the room, although, surprisingly, it isn't that loud.