I’ve been looking for an affordable media center for some time or, at least, some combination of DVD, digital media (ie, mp3, DivX) and, maybe, recorded TV shows. However, I haven’t found a cheap solution for this. Let me show which alternatives I have considered:
1. Mac Mini
About 670 euros, with a ridiculously small 80Gb HD, [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Media Center Solutions (1)
31Jul07Honeyd
25Jul07This is an interesting paper about Honeyd. Honeyd is a daemon that simulates a complete network for security purposes. Once you have it running in a host and assign it an IP address, it will answer to any ping or probe sent to that address, emulating all the fingerprints of the OS. You can even [...]
Chairs
25Jul07This is my current office chair, the Aeron Chair:
It is not a bad chair, but it has too many tilting parts and suspensions. I think it is probably one of the most popular office chairs because it looks “professional”. It’s like an IBM Thinkpad, I guess: professional and boring. They even share the same color!. [...]
Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
20Jul07This theory basically says that a normal guy, when there is an audience but he/she can keep his/her identity secret, becomes a rather rude person.
Success
19Jul07From How to Spot a Failing Project “The most widely used measure of IT project success is the Chaos Report from The Standish Group International. [...] (where) researchers found that 31 percent of the IT projects were flat failures. That is, they were abandoned before completion and produced nothing useful. Only about 16 percent of [...]
