Linux logo [FAIL]
This companies use of the Linux logo is interesting to say the least.
Rochester NY, 390 Southbound
Boxee, you have changed the way i watch media
I've used a number of Media Center solutions for connecting a PC/Mac to my HDTV.
First i used the software that came with my Sony, it did TV recording, but it wasn't a really integrated solution.
I hacked an Xbox at some point and used XMBC, which was a VERY good solution.
For my TV recording i was using a ReplayTV box, sadly, in the Tivo vs, ReplayTV replay was the wrong horse to bet on.
After the XBOX died and the ReplayTV had stopped all future software updates i moved on and actually turned off my cable.
I was using MediaPortal for a while, which was a great product, but my PC started to die.
After my Sony PC started to have memory problems i moved to a G5 running OS X. Front worked as a great simple solution, but it really didn't offer any flexibility.
PLEX was my next solution, which is a very VERY good project. It is a great port of the XBMC project. Its a very good integrated Mac experience, and i like it alot, but i've found a new love when it comes to my TV and PC.
enter Boxee, at the core, its ANOTHER port of XBMC, but... as you start to dig deeper into the application you realized how integrated with the internet this app really is. Everything from its social friend network features, so its use of online reviews and content.
The BIGGEST feature for me is the integration of services like HULU and Netflix. Absolutly amazing. Bring the power of internet streaming video to my big screen TV. Boxee is currently in alpha, and if this is alpha, i can't wait to see the final product! These guys are doing an amazing job, and if you follow them on twitter they are super fast to respond to problems and they keep the community up to date with progress! I found this app right before the christmas season... so its is my favorite APP of 2008!! Keep up the good work boxee!
Wow This post made my day! 10 of the best 80's cartoon theme songs. Absolutly took me back to my youth!
http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2008/12/08/the-10-best-80s-cartoon-theme-songs/
iPhone 2.2 Here i come.
I've decided this morning i'm going to upgrade to firmware 2.2 and jailbreak again. Wish me luck. Its always an adventure doing this sort of thing!
Also, have i mentioned that winter is here.. and its freaking cold outside? I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that.
Tunnel Vision
So...
I woke up this morning, and for reasons that i don't want to explain. I'm just in a bad mood. So... I decided on my drive into work that i'm going to channel this bad mood into productivity. So i've been sitting at my desk here, headphones on, hoodie up, iChat not on, no twitter, and not texting or any of my normal distractions. And lone behold, before lunch i pretty much finished a module that i've been meaning to finish for about a month. AHH BEHOLD THE POWER OF CONCENTRATION AND FOCUS
Go figure. The moral of the story? Get in a bad mood, and channel your frustration and bad mojo into something productive, which will most likely raise your spirits up, and get you out of your bad mood. Thus saving you from depressions or some other stupid emotional wreck.
I am usually a very positive perosn, i've leaned early on the lesson of only worrying about the things you can change or that you have some sort of influence on. The rest of them should just be facts and outside entities that you know about and have acknowledged. This is a philosophy that i usually preach to anyone who asks for my advice. It has worked very well for me. Sometimes it comes off as unemotional or that I just bottle everything up. But i really do believe that the human emotions can only deal with things that you either have done/or can do something to change the outcome. If you have no control, acknowledge the issue and MOVE ON.
Strangest thing happened last night on the way home.
So on the way home after the GMB banquet i came across a group of people on the side of the road and a guy flagging me down.
There was an accident has this guy says to me "I need you pull up and give me some light, i'm trying to work on this guys leg" So of course I do the only sensible thing and pull up, put on my high beams and give him the light. Sooner or later the fire department, ambulance and police showed up, took care of the driver of the motorcycle and his passenger. I think they both got away with a few broken bones, but nothing horrible. So i ended up getting stuck between all the emergency vehicles, so I had to way for them all to leave before i could head home. But overall it felt nice to do at least a little something good.
The guy who initially flagged me down thinks the driver was drunk, because i guess earlier on the motorcyle passed him doing like 70 on lake shore drive.
It made for an interesting night.
Trent Reznor is CLASSY!
So, I like alot of people have been getting tons of emails in my Inbox reminding me to get out and VOTE! Because honestly people, its what gives us as Americans a little bit of say in our country. So i got this really cool email today from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (probably cause i downloaded their Online Album). And I really like how his message was about one thing and one thing only. GET OUT AND VOTE. It wasn't about WHO to vote for, just to make sure you go out there and get your voice heard. Classy, very classy.
Next Tuesday we will elect the next President of the United States. The result
will have great consequences for the nation. This election offers a choice is
between two men with dramatically different visions of the future.
We have strong feelings about this choice. But we feel even more strongly
that all Americans, regardless of political preference, have a stake in the
outcome and should vote in this critical election.
This is likely to be a close election. Your vote matters. Please use it and
make a difference.
Sincerely,
Trent Reznor
I never knew it existed!
I never know this existed but under the scripts directory in phpMyAdmin there is a perl script call 'upgrade.pl'
This wonderful little script goes out and pings the phpMyAdmin site and gets the latest version of the software for you!
I put a script executing for my site wide install of phpMyAdmin in cron.weekly to help make sure we are UP TO DATE!
Very cool!
Art which moves me…
This picture really moved me.
www.newyorker.com/online/2008/09/29/slideshow_080929_platon
Windows XP SP3 on bootcamp
Well... microsoft's at it again.
If you don't do the registry key hack explained at: http://www.windowsreference.com/general/error-there-is-not-enough-disk-space-when-installing-sp3/
1. Click Start - Run - Type “regedit” and press enter.
2. Navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\Software
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Setup
3. In the right pane, Right-click and select New - String value4. Name it as “BootDir” and set its value to “C:\”
You will get a dreaded "There is not enough disk space to install Service Pack 3"
Obviously, i'm not an idiot and i had more than 4MB of space that the error message told me i was missing.
I guess it needs a registry to tell it where.... C:\ is... i don't get it. Anyways, its fixed and SP3 is getting on my macbook right now