Posts made in September, 2007
Stream DVDs to your Xbox 360 from your Media PC (part 1)
I’ve spent the past few days looking for the easiest method to rip a DVD and stream it to my Xbox 360 from my Windows Media Center (or Vista) PC. There’s many different methods for this and most of them involve ripping the DVD to a single VOB file, renaming that file as a .MPG running it through some sort of AC3 filter and then streaming the large MPEG file to your Xbox. The problem...
Read MoreAmazon Unbox Videos on the Xbox 360
Since I have my wireless mesh network setup in the house, I have OUTSTANDING wireless access throughout the entire house. Now with good latency and no packet loss it’s time to start making the best of the network in the house. The first thing I did this weekend was enable my Xbox360 to connect to my Windows Media Desktop running Windows Media Center Edition 2005 Rollup Patch 2....
Read MoreHigh availability broadband network via a wireless mesh
This week I started playing with sveasoft.com‘s talisman wireless mesh firmware at home. What this firmware does is allow you to re-flash your wireless routers and enable many other features in your router. The firmware I opted for allows me to take multiple broadband routers and create a wireless mesh network out of them. What a wireless mesh is basically is a wireless network that...
Read MoreThe great migration is now over .. I have returned to wordpress
A long time ago (okay about a year ago) when I first launched my wordpress based blog I stated one of the nice things about Windows hosting is that you can run a mix of applications. If a PHP application is the best blogging engine available to fit your needs, you can run it while still running an ASP.NET e-commerce application for your main site, maybe a ASP based app for your...
Read More24 Hours with dasBlog .. reviews from a wordpress refugee
So I’ve spent the past 24 hours with my blog converted to dasBlog. I’m pretty pleased with the blog but I have to say it’s got a long way to go if it’s going to match the power of wordpress. Here’s my take on it so far: Features in WordPress I find myself missing in dasBlog Now alot of these features were found with plugins and not built into wordpress so the...
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