March 2005 Archives

This is a good page if you are interested in adding Girder (or have been afraid) to your HTPC setup.

What is Girder

Getting ready to install the Microsoft® "Avalon" and "Indigo" Community Technology Preview. If my system crashes and I don't post for a couple of days, that is what the problem is.

Sweet. Now that I am not running the blog on my own server I don't use MySQL for alot, but I do use it a bit, and have plans to use it even more later.

Slashdot | 'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta

This looks very cool. Exactly what I want for fathers day. That or a decent iPaq to hack and use as a remote for Meedio (and really all of my HA stuff). I could use netremote and girder probably. I know I can on the pocket PC's, but will have to wait for some enterprising kids to hack the PSP for it first. Hell, even a nice tablet PC would be pretty cool, just a bit more bulky than what I really want.

Amazon.com: Electronics: Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) Value Pack

Finally got Meedio to play M4P's purchased using iTunes. I ended up using a Meedio plugin that uses Winamp as it's music player, rather than the stock music player. Then I downloaded the M4P input plugin for winamp and installed that. I also had to do a new import that would find the music in m4p format, since the stock plugin does not. Sounds like a lot of work, bt it actually was not. It is much quicker than the stock player, and I have always loved winamp.

I would have preferred native support for M4P, but I think that they are more worried about the TV crap than something only a few people have requested. I am using BeyondTV, which blows away MeedioTV.

Update - The only problem I have found with this is controlling it when the music library is across a network. I am in the process of miving all 24 gigs of music onto my htpc, that should speed it up greatly. I am getting ready to go to bed, may post more tommorow on this.

I've added this link to my blogroll as well. desktopian.org was my main site for skinning news at one point in time. Blogging before blogging was mainstream. Still head over every once in awhile, but it has not been updated in several months. I am still into skinning, but not quite as heavy, and not into replacement shells as much as I used to be either.