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Originally posted by ArkanGL:
Let's talk media centers :
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Who has experience with that topic?
Any experiences to share?

I'm just using the PS3 for all this crap now. There are some movies you can't watch from it, but anything that was DIVX'd up seems to be fair game. Basically, you boot the PC and install some software on your PC to run a UPnP streaming server. It should just appear on your PS3's media lists.

I am using MediaTomb on the Mac, which I installed through the expedient of installing fink, enabling the unstable branch and checking the mediatomb checkbox to be installed for me. Took an hour or so to compile up, but it works pretty well.

I am sure there are a ton of other options for Windows or various Linuxes.

NOTE: For best results buy the PS3 bluetooth remote, although you can use the DualShock controller pretty well too.

I used to install theatrical projection and sound equipment in movie theaters. I can wire a home entertainment center blindfolded, with my teeth.

What if I run current through said wires?

I've know a guy who builds 'em for yuppies - no matter how much money they've got, they still want the free pay-TV mods.

Lemme know what you're afte- wait, you guys still using SECAM?

Tried the full version Photoshop trial, but it fell over every time I tried to start it. Uninstalled that and currently d/ling The Gimp.

That works (now if I could just d/l one or two % of fuldog's skillz )

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Lemme know what you're afte- wait, you guys still using SECAM?

a re-purposed the 1st gen Xbox is an inexpensive alternative. You're just a screwdriver, your computer, and a Linux download away froma region-free DVD player. Throw in some network option and all the goodness of internet media will take over your living room.

Xbox 360 red ring of death

Tonight, having watched a number of YouTube vids, I will attempt to fix our 360, whilst my son video's the escapade. I feel confident... which, given past experience, is most likely a bad thing.

Anyone tackled this Micro$oft bater before?

MythBuntu did not install itself properly.
After a few ctrips to the console, I got it working.
But it's clearly not designed for what I had in mind.

I reinstalled XP, and got MediaPortal running on it.
So far, it's doing exactly what I want.
I just need to make sure it can handle subbed MKVs.
Also, I need to find out how to use my RemoteWonder with it.

Anyone know off-hand whether Gmail searches inside attachments to target advertising? Sent a message that mentioned only soap, but that included references to iron and aluminium and oxide in a Word doc, and got thermite pimped to me in the ads.

Gmail ads are sentient. They can hear meat world conversations.

They scare me!

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Originally posted by Bravus:
Anyone know off-hand whether Gmail searches inside attachments to target advertising? Sent a message that mentioned only soap, but that included references to iron and aluminium and oxide in a Word doc, and got thermite pimped to me in the ads.

You also drew the attention of US Homeland Security, and the UK's MI6. Check to see if your credit history has been audited.

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Originally posted by Bravus:
Anyone know off-hand whether Gmail searches inside attachments to target advertising? Sent a message that mentioned only soap, but that included references to iron and aluminium and oxide in a Word doc, and got thermite pimped to me in the ads.

As Office documents get automatically converted to google-docs my guess is yes. But only certain attachments.

Contact Hell: now with extra SaaS goodness.

OK, so I'm trying to develop a database (to be eventually imported into my CRM system) to Rule Them All. This is to track my business contacts to see who I've contacted about what.

This is proving about as difficult as returning the Ring to Mordor.

I have a couple of .xls spreadsheets, data in Plaxo, LinkedIn and Mail as well as a zillion google contacts in csv form. Duplicates and out of date entries and different versions of the same name...oh my!

So anyone have any idea how to organize this mess? I initially tried to export everything as csv files (and even that was difficult in a couple of cases) to one .xls file. It's just not working.

I've looked at programs like eGrabber, but that requires cutting and pasting too. I'm semi-OS agnostic about this (although I'd prefer something OS X native), and I don't care if it's software or SaaS.

Any help at all would be most welcome.

I'm having a similar conundrum with my CRM system and my FedEx software.

Let me know if you find anything, right now I am circumventing the process with a legacy system. Not my finest achievement.

I have found the solution.

His name is Calib, and he comes from Manila.

You hook-up with him in a massage parlor?

Clearly, you know me so well.

If only it were you, in your delightful manstockings you go running in.

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I have a couple of .xls spreadsheets, data in Plaxo, LinkedIn and Mail as well as a zillion google contacts in csv form. Duplicates and out of date entries and different versions of the same name...oh my!

Remember, computers make our lives EASIER...

I'll say this - I started my career in research in libraries. I fetishizse books as much as much as the next self respecting Wigber, but they are not intended for *research*

I use last.fm, and am rather fond of the scrobbling feature. However, here at my parent's house we're on an encrypted wi-fi network, and the scrobbling is a no-go. How would I go about making it work again? Would it require typing the wifi's network key into the scrobbling widget?