I have had this working at home over the XBMC interface .. if you have not done this yet on your AppleTV .. DO IT!
Its an easy install -
You need a USB key, apple laptop/pc and about 15 min of time.
download the XBMC patch stick creator, make the drive, plug it in to your apple tv, unplug, restart, install, done! Enjoy …
Much better than windows media center and at a cost of $150-$250 total!
With everything going on lately its been hard to find some time to geek out but I had a friend call me this evening wondering how we are going to get internet up in the UP on our snowmobile trip. Last year we picked up a bridge and was able to pull in a wireless signal from a neighbor so that we have VOIP service and some web service to check up on work. It worked pretty well but we looked like true geeks when you walked into the house to see a ton of wires all over the place with laptops hooked up and phone bridges.
I was looking around a little and figured I would start to play with some of my Linksys gear again and install some new firmware.
Tonight I pulled out a few routers and started to play …
I have a few WRT54GAG routers at home that I don\’t use anymore as I updated to all Cisco – so time to build a lab.
We have done this in the past bridging two buildings together when we outgrew our old office and needed some extra room for some developers. We spent a lot of time playing with antennas and configurations however in the end got it working alright for the time. (However I do remember an Ethernet wire that ran across the parking lot that we used for a while =)
For the most part its very straight forward … simply follow the following directions .. \r\n
I had this set up in the past at home as a bridge but about a year ago I started to play with getting a phone server installed on this … it worked however moving to Cisco SIP phones I didn’t have much of a need for it … now it will be a neighborhood hotspot so that I can get back into my network to share music when I am over at someone’s party. (I have 600+ CD\’s ripped – nice little jukebox)
So in this wonderful housing market I have decided that things need to change a little and we need a new approach. I picked up a few domains over the past few years and decided that I am going to use one. I don’t understand why agents continue to use media that does not work! Simply posting your house on the agents site and having it listed in the MLS is not going to sell your house (in most cases now) when you have 10,000 others in the market with you.This last week I started to work on a plan, it involves me building a site, using adwords, some SEO, links in the proper place and a mix of other things in hopes that I can sell my house faster.My house has been on the market for about 90 days and I have had one person look at it - now I understand having my road under construction does not help .. but lets not continue doing the same things that haven’t been working for 90 days. It won’t sell itself!
I grew up in web advertising and marketing - I have no problem managing campaigns for Adwords and the like along with using Picasa, Facebook, Linkedin and Youtube to host media and to open communication.
Moving form XP to Vista changes some day to day tasks along with structure of data beneath the GUI.
So what happens if you have thousands of music files that you would like referenced from you’re “My Music” and your partition for you OS is not that large? Say
you just went on a vacation and returned with thousands of new images that you would like to have on an external drive not to fill up your laptop with all of the
photos .. what do you do?
Here’s how to relocate any of the folders in your profile….
1) Navigate to the drive that you would like to use for the new location and create the directory structure. I:\Music or I:\Pictures
2) Click on Start and click the bodl user name at the top right in the Start menu. This will open your profile editor.
3) Right click the icon for the property that you would like to edit. Documents, My Music and so on … Choose properties.
4) On the location tab click on the button Move (middle button)
5) You can then select the location that you have previously created.
6) Click select folder and return to the location tab – click OK and you will be presented with a conformation if you really want to do this … select yes.
7) Your done!
That’s it – all you have to do to move your locations of My Music and other folders. This is a great way to map large amounts of data from other locations and
drives to your my Docs folder for backup and/or just piece of mind.
Press is rolling on the new site … (http://www.bladeuser.org)Here is an excerpt from the arctle talking about http://www.bladeuser.org
“Blade.org provides an invaluable interchange between users of blade servers and the vendor community,” said Kyle Ohme, Chairman of the Blade.org Customer Advisory Council. “Now that so many companies have deployed blade servers, many blade users have expressed the desire to join in a forum — like those in many other product categories that enjoy strong adoption — in which they can interact with their peers as well as the vendor community. Blade.org is becoming a diverse community where vendors can transform end-users’ needs for workarounds and custom development into off-the-shelf blade server products and specialized data center solutions.”
Check out the full page for all information.
Here is the full article .. Click Here
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