I use my Vonage number that way. There wasn't one available in my area when I was setting up my company number. So I made it an Indianapolis number so our family could call us without it being long-distance. But now everyone calls from their cel phones, so it hardly matters. But it's still handy sometimes.
I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...
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Liese S. - Dec 24, 2009 7:50:00 pm PST #12078 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Gris - Dec 25, 2009 3:30:43 am PST #12079 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Tommyrot, look into DLNA server/client setups. Your MacBook can play videos and stream them to a client (there are many client options, including the ps3 and bd390 previously discussed). The computer does all the decoding. You can also use that combined with a program called PlayOn to stream hulu and netflix to such a client, though it's annoying to have to have the computer running for that, at least to me.
evil jimi - Dec 25, 2009 3:57:53 am PST #12080 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
A PS3 is good value because the new PlayTV device lets it work as a HDD recorder. I'll be getting one soon, and upgrading the HDD from whatever it is at the moment, to at least a 500GB.
I'm still holding out for something I know will support region-free safely.
ita ... I'm not sure if this is valid for the US but Kogan [link] have a new blu-ray player out that plays all regions of DVDs and Blu-ray discs.
NoiseDesign - Dec 25, 2009 7:01:51 am PST #12081 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I don't argue that the PS3 is a good value if you are going to use the other things that it is capable of doing, but as a standalone device with the primary duty of playing Blu-Ray discs it is no longer king of the hill.
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2009 3:14:46 pm PST #12082 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks for the suggestion, jimi. I'm not sure about the electrics of the whole thing, though.
I thought pyTiVo was supposed be easy! I just compiled ffmpeg on my box and am running the pyTiVo software--the downloaded files show up on TiVo but won't play. I don't even know where to start troubleshooting.
Jon B. - Dec 26, 2009 3:33:52 pm PST #12083 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Are you using pyTivoX? I don't remember having to compile ffmpeg or anything else to get it to run.
omnis_audis - Dec 26, 2009 3:45:38 pm PST #12084 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
is there anything like this TiVo stuff for U-verse?
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2009 3:46:52 pm PST #12085 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are you using pyTivoX?
No, just pyTivo. For some reason the web config tool doesn't save changes to the configuration file, so it wasn't finding the location of ffmpeg.
Not sure how to fix the saving issue, but I can edit the file manually to work around it.
Now to focus on migrating my sister to her new Gateway laptop.
DCJensen - Dec 26, 2009 4:30:07 pm PST #12086 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Now to focus on migrating my sister to her new Gateway laptop.
For a robot body, it doesn't seem very mobile. Attach it to a Roomba, at least.
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2009 5:13:30 pm PST #12087 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Great. After all that, I have bollixed up the power connector for the Powerbook, so now I can't power on the laptop. It might be over for it, finally.
Sad now.