So today, my day off, I end up doing nothing I wanted to do. The morning started with the freakshow of the new AppleTV updates to enable YouTube viewing and a couple other things. That's cool… let's check out what the web has to say before swallowing the pill. Well, the web said it wasn't [...]
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So, what you're reading right now is all completely off the AppleTV. I got Apache 1.3, PHP 5.2.1, MySQL 5.0, and even ImageMagick running. It really should have been a lot easier than it was, but trial and error I guess. Mainly it involved creating the installs on my iMac, tarring them up and then [...]
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So, the AppleTV. It's a mini intel Mac Mini. A mini mini. And right now I have Apache running on it and am trying to get MySQL going as well. If I get that up, I've got myself not only an entertainment device, but my web server as well. Why? It's literally about 1/50th the [...]
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Yeah, so I've had about 5 hours now of play time with the AppleTV since last night and all I can say damn this thing rules! I took the hard drive out, voided the warranty in the process and dropped it into my portable firewire enclosure. Copied over my intel version of sshd from my [...]
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So, I placed the order for the AppleTV on Sunday and it shipped Monday. I checked the tracking to see where it was and it said Shenzhen, CN. All I could think was, where the hell is that? There's no state with CN for an abbreviation. Or is there? I'm feeling dumb… maybe it's Canada. [...]
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For a few years now I've been wanting a solution to archive and play high quality mp4 streams with 5.1 audio up to HD resolutions. There was literally nothing but a HTPC option out there to do this, and I didn't really want yet another computer sitting next to the tv to do the job [...]
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