…who cares?
I am amazed at grown adults who think that there is even such a thing as PC vs. Mac. It’s no more sensible than Ford vs. Holden.
Just use the best tool for the job, one or more of:
This is why my “daily driver” is my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X, and why I have two other laptops on my desk running 32-bit Windows.
That is all. :-)
I tried to offer my services via Twitter, and had zero takers. Fair enough, maybe my circle is too small.
So, I blog it here, out in the open.
You could take this opportunity to “hand me the keys” and go to the beach.
Or, you could take the chance to get some project work done, or done faster.
You could use me as an extra pair of hands.
No, I will not be a slave, Man Friday, or workplace masseur, or anything similar.
My offer is serious, if you want to take me up on it.
Location: Sydney, or you pay me the cost-price of travel to/from your preferred location.
What do I do?
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Stacey Higginbotham has done a short writeup of Christos Lagomichos’ comments on standalone set top boxes.
Getting content from the web to your TV is driving the release of several new set-top boxes such as the Roku, Apple TV and ZeeVee. And yet one of the top chipmakers in the set-top box market doesn’t see those types of appliances winning out over the set-top boxes you get from video service providers (cable, telco, satellite, etc.) anytime soon.
I both agree and disagree with the comments, and the angle. No, it’s not fence-sitting, it’s a case of “different horses for different courses”.
A highly-evolved set top box needs to earn its place in the livingroom of today. Most consumers I talk with, from all walks of life, have a good understanding of what they want, and what might be possible, for a “converged TV” experience.
The carriers and TV companies want to you go into their very vertical, tightly-controlled product lineups: and stay there! The independents, or meta-TV operators, would like you to pick their particular flavour of vertical, tightly-controlled product range.
And the hackers have to stand alone, or find a provider for the in-between. “What if,” they say, “I could have a box that works with my chosen TV bouquet, yet can see and use all the media in my home, and can give me some options for having-it-my-way?”.
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I had a very unpleasant time this morning compiling mplayer, with LIVE555 support, for Mac OS X Intel (Leopard, 10.5.4).
LIVE555 compiled fine, with
./genmakefiles macosx
and I moved it into /opt/local/lib/live to “co”"exist” with some macports libraries.
But mplayer refused to play nicely, until I built it with
./configure --disable-gui --disable-mencoder --disable-xinerama --disable-xv --disable-x11 --enable-largefiles --enable-macosx-finder-support --enable-menu --with-freetype-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-config --with-extraincdir=/opt/local/lib/live/ --with-extralibdir=/opt/local/lib
Yeah…right…I totally should have known that off the top of my head. At least now the binary is built, so I could Bonjour it to a coworker for his MacBook and he could start using it straight away.
mplayer (totally cool version with LIVE555 support) (Intel) (Mac OS X) (zip. 2.9mbyte file, HTTP download)
Please understand that this is being provided without any expressed warranty or merchantability statement. It is virus- and malicious code- free. I claim no rights of any kind for compiling open-source codebases into this binary.
My iPhone (Classic) was failing to get DHCP via one of the WiFi networks in the office. Some convoluted Googling later, I found that perhaps the clash is due to the Billion DHCP server implementation not liking the AirPort Extreme IPv6 Tunneling option being enabled.
Change the IPv6 configuration in your AirPort Extreme to:
And the basestation reboots by itself, which left me with working DHCP.
Yes, I have the WiFi basestation(s) as bridges onto the DHCP-serving router.
