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- August 20, 2008 – 9:48 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
We received this Blu-ray player along with a few Blu-Ray DVDs for an anniversary present. The BDP-S301 is the same as the BDP-S300 except it is only sold at wholesale outlets like Costco and Sam’s Club. The S301 also includes an HDMI cable. The Pros: The image looks great. Hands down it is a clean, crisp image, and with the latest firmware updates (click here) supports most audio configurations. The Cons: This thing is the slowest media player I have ever laid my hands on. The instructions warn that the initial setup could take 90 seconds to start and after that, start up would be quicker. I suppose they didn’t lie – start up on an everyday basis takes around 40 seconds or more! After that, you can finally eject the tray to insert your movie, or make your way to the menu. Forty seconds, when you have an impatient….
Categories: Hardware,Reviews,Security,Television
Tagged: bdp-s300, bdp-s301, blu-ray, bluray, movies, Reviews, sony
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- July 19, 2008 – 3:38 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I use MediaCoder for most of my encoding/transcoding of video for playback on my PC and other devices. The N800 has a peculiar set of parameters for it’s video – if it doesn’t match up then it either won’t play back or will be very choppy. I ended up selling the N800 but I thought I would pass this profile along to anyone who might use it. 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <MediaCoderPrefs> <node key="overall"> <node key="generic"> <node key="autoRevert"> <value>Never</value> </node> </node> <node key="ui"> <node key="optionTab"> <value>3</value> </node> <node key="param"> <value>1069,767,47,50</value> </node> <node key="noWelcome"> <value>4068</value> </node> </node> <node key="task"/> ….
Categories: Hardware,N800,Other Code
Tagged: AVI, encoding, Mediacoder, N800, transcoding, video, XML
- Published:
- June 17, 2008 – 9:19 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Real Security is knowing when you’re being bamboozled.
Categories: Hardware
Tagged: bamboozled, Security
- Published:
- April 30, 2008 – 3:35 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
If you are like me, as soon as you start using Instant Messaging (Octrotalk, Windows Live Messenger, IM+, Palringo) on your Windows Mobile Device – your battery life goes out the window. I’m talking, 12 hrs max. That is not a good thing for a mobile device where you need it to last at least a full day, if not multiple days. The problem is that IM networks need to remain connected – a ‘heartbeat’ signal is sent over the network to ensure the client is still online, and so that if you receive any instant messages they are delivered to you, well, instantly. The reason text messages do not eat up battery life is because the cell phone network does not require your phone to have a heartbeat data connection to the cellular network – if a text message is sent to you, your phone picks it up when….
Categories: Cell Phones,Other Technology,Programs,Windows Mobile
Tagged: battery, battery life, cell phone, instant message, mobile, Windows Mobile
- Published:
- April 17, 2008 – 11:16 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
As soon as I heard PayPal would be offering a $5 Security Key for additional security while logging in, I jumped on it. A few days later, it arrived in the mail. It’s a great idea, but I decided that carrying a little secure key that generates special numbers for the 3 times a month I login to PayPal just wasn’t worth it. For the uninitiated, two-factor authentication is when two separate methods are used to verify an identity. For example, a thumbprint and a codeword, or a eye scan and a smart card. The most useful in my and many other’s opinion is a One Time password token, like the Paypal/Verisign security key. This device, which is meant to be carried with you at all times (think, belongs on your keychain, and you keep it in your pocket like a key) generates a series of numbers which depend on….
Categories: Hardware,Security,Social Media
Tagged: cellular telephone, MyOpenID, openid, Security, smart card, target site, two factor, USD, verisign, Verisign Labs PIP
- Published:
- March 17, 2008 – 10:48 am
- Author:
- By Dave
This great post over at Internet Tablet Talk describes how to pair the Nintento Wii control (wiimote) to the Maemo OS2008 using Bluetooth. Functionality is pretty limited at the moment, but I was able to play lxdoom using the wii remote. That is pretty damn cool and opens up a lot of gaming possibilites with the N800, since a bunch of emulators have already been ported to it! Old NES games, here I come!
Categories: Hardware,N800
Tagged: Bluetooth, gaming, Internet Tablet Talk, N800, OS2008, wii, wiimote
- Published:
- March 15, 2008 – 8:45 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
In case you were wondering, I just invented the phrase PVPN – Personal Virtual Private Network. I use Hamachi to connect my work, home and laptop PCs and I’ve found it invaluable over the past few years for a number of reasons. Music over VPN, Remote Desktop/VNC over VPN, and more. So now, I’d like to join my N800 to this growing network to make easy and secure access and file transfer wherever I am connected. Fortunately the folks at Logmein have compiled a client for the N770, and this also works on OS2008 on the N800 (Let me know on the N810). This is an alternate take on the wiki article at Logmeinwiki. Note: For the commands below I will have assumed that you have already installed the openssh server so you can access the N800 via an SSH client with root access. You can also use the built….
Categories: Configurations,Linux,N800,Shell
Tagged: hamachi, hamachi go-online, internet tablet, Linux, little device, N800, openssh server, tablet, VPN
