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Viva la OCAP II

Posted in December 29th, 2008
Published in Media Center

Yes, this Media Center concept just won’t die! It’s an endless pursuit of perfection, and I may be one step closer.
For Christmas I received an HDHomerun tuner. This thing is pretty sweet. It’s a network-based tuner, so you just plug it into your cable/antenna, then plug it into your network. Then any machine on your [...]

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Annoying Software Irritations

Posted in December 3rd, 2008
Published in General

Check out this link. It’s an oldie, but a goodie. It successfuly describes many problems I have with the software world. The Java description takes the take:
Java doesn’t do anything by itself. It’s a programming language. Programming languages are like sewage plants: if the average user becomes aware of them, something’s gone wrong. Java doesn’t [...]

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