XBMC is about the coolest thing since sliced bread (if sliced bread were ever really that cool). It gives me the ability to do pretty much anything I want with my XBOX and it’s attractive as well! I can play videos over the LAN off of SMB shares, from CD or DVD or pretty much… Continue reading XBOX Media Center
Category: Geeky Technical Stuff
Any time I go off on a rant about geeky, technical subjects I’ll try and warn you by labelling it appropriately.
Not so “Flashy” anymore…
Macromedia Flash supporters are going to have to rework their code as IE has now been fully patched to essentially disable interaction with Flash elements until the user clicks on the element to enable it. Some may think of this as a godsend, but for developers who use flash in navigation elements of their site… Continue reading Not so “Flashy” anymore…
Modified
After throwing together the DVD drive from one dead XBOX and the motherboard and hard drive of another I finally have a working unit. Now with the XFCE3 mod chip soldered in I can do pretty much anything I want with it. It’s pretty cool, as I now have EvolutionX as my dashboard instead of… Continue reading Modified
Torrents Down
Torrentspy, The Pirate Bay… My friend has just informed me they are both down. The Pirate Bay says it is “database problems”. How strange. Maybe some cracker has a vendetta against piracy? *shrug* It will be interesting to see how this all turns out.
To those who would try…
This website is custom built line-by-line by yours truly. I have not implemented any BBCode in the ShoutOuts box. Nor will injecting HTML into the ShoutOuts box work. Have a nice day, and please stop wasting everyone’s time by posting garbage characters. [EDIT] I’ve moved on from maintaining the code for this mammoth project myself.… Continue reading To those who would try…