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On 5/13/2009 7:41 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> Go to "My XBox", then "Video Library", and you can browse all the
>> shared videos on your computer.
>
> Yeah. Hard to set up to record a new series of TV shows, tho. :-) And I
> think that if you have the shared media set up, you can't use the
> extender, and vice versa.
>
I don't know about using it as a DVR, but it's certainly possible to set
up both for use.
--
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Chambers wrote:
> I don't know about using it as a DVR, but it's certainly possible to set
> up both for use.
OK. I never tried using the dashboard version. The on-screen instructions
implied they were mutually exclusive. I'll give it a try, thanks!
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Completely unrelated to your post, but I didn't want to create a whole
new thread just for this, so I shamelessly am putting this here... :)
Yesterday at work we had a a concrete situation where Unix (in this
specific case MacOS X, or more precisely its "unixy" features) was just
way handier than Windows.
A co-worker had filtered some data in a file through a program to a
second file, but was suspicious that the program might actually have some
bug in it. He was wondering how he could most easily see what the program
had removed from the input.
Being used to unix, my very first instinct was to say "diff the files".
"How do I do that?" Right, he was in Windows, and there's no diff in
Windows. We pondered for a moment what would be the easiest solution.
He was using notepad++ as his text editor and we wondered if there would
be some way of comparing two files in it. With the million of menus in the
program, it was probably not worth the trouble.
I was on the Mac at the moment and said "just send the files to me and
I'll diff them here". He sent them and it took me something like 2 seconds
to write a "diff file1 file2 | less", and there the info we wanted was.
Sometimes things just *are* way easier in unix. Sure, there are tools
for Windows to do the same thing, but the problem is that Windows never
has *any* tools by default, and it would always require quite a lot of
work to get the tools. In unix the tools just are there, period. No need
to think nor hassle around.
(Ok, unix doesn't have all possible tools for all possible tasks by
default, but in some cases, like this one, it just works like a charm.)
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Sometimes things just *are* way easier in unix. Sure, there are tools
> for Windows to do the same thing, but the problem is that Windows never
> has *any* tools by default, and it would always require quite a lot of
> work to get the tools. In unix the tools just are there, period. No need
> to think nor hassle around.
Yeah, but MS gets slapped on the wrist for including things. It's
anticompetitive for the little guys that make stand-alone utilities.
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Yeah, but MS gets slapped on the wrist for including things. It's
> anticompetitive for the little guys that make stand-alone utilities.
Since when? Has someone complained eg. about the command prompt?
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Yeah, but MS gets slapped on the wrist for including things. It's
>> anticompetitive for the little guys that make stand-alone utilities.
>
> Since when? Has someone complained eg. about the command prompt?
Not since the days of PC-DOS and DR-DOS, but look at Windows Media
Player, Internet Explorer, the ability to read zip files without needing
to buy WinZip, the ability to write data CDs from explorer...because MS
has a majority market share, *any* feature they add stifles competitors
trying to monetise the same feature in niche markets. (Did I reach my
buzzword quota?)
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Not since the days of PC-DOS and DR-DOS, but look at Windows Media
> Player, Internet Explorer, the ability to read zip files without needing
> to buy WinZip, the ability to write data CDs from explorer...because MS
> has a majority market share, *any* feature they add stifles competitors
> trying to monetise the same feature in niche markets. (Did I reach my
> buzzword quota?)
I have never heard of those, but even if it's true, there's a sense of
irony in there. Microsoft itself is quite infamous for whining about why
Linux is "communism" and deteriorates good old capitalistic principles
where people should pay for what they use. (And all this because Linux
takes something like 2% of the market share in the OS market.)
--
- Warp
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Tim Cook wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>> Yeah, but MS gets slapped on the wrist for including things. It's
>>> anticompetitive for the little guys that make stand-alone utilities.
>>
>> Since when? Has someone complained eg. about the command prompt?
>
> Not since the days of PC-DOS and DR-DOS, but look at Windows Media
> Player, Internet Explorer, the ability to read zip files without needing
> to buy WinZip, the ability to write data CDs from explorer...because MS
> has a majority market share, *any* feature they add stifles competitors
> trying to monetise the same feature in niche markets. (Did I reach my
> buzzword quota?)
Adobe didn't *let* Microsoft implement built-in PDF support, because they
feared Microsoft would Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish it.
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Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Adobe didn't *let* Microsoft implement built-in PDF support, because they
> feared Microsoft would Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish it.
Some people ask why eg. Apple is allowed to include support for many
third-party programs and formats in their OS but Microsoft isn't.
As you well put it, there's a good reason: When Apple adds support eg.
for a format in their OS, only few people care, and it has little impact
on anything. Apple can't afford *breaking* the format by making it
non-standard.
Microsoft, however, having the de-facto monopoly status in computing,
can safely break the format's standard and implement their own extensions
and modifications, and this new format will quickly become the de-facto
standard, overriding the original. Not even big rich companies are safe
from this kind of tampering (just ask Sun Microsystems).
It's no wonder so many companies don't have any problems in Apple
supporting their stuff, but cringe at the idea of Microsoft getting
their claws on it.
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Not even big rich companies are safe
> from this kind of tampering (just ask Sun Microsystems).
Sun isn't a big rich company anymore, though :)
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