This has got to be one of the better skits I have seen in a long time.
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XBMC media center is a free cross-platform media-player jukebox and entertainment hub. XBMC is open source (GPL) software available for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows operating-system, and the Xbox game-console. XBMC can play a very complete spectrum of of multimedia formats, and featuring playlist, audio visualizations, slideshow, and weather forecast functions, together with a multitude of third-party plugins. Originally developed as XBMP (XBox Media Player) for the first-generation Xbox game console in 2002, XBMC has eventually become a complete graphical user interface replacement for the original Xbox Dashboard, and it is currently also being ported to run natively under Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating-system. This, The XBMC Project is also known as “XBMC Media Center” or simply “XBMC”).
Team-XBMC is always looking for talented developers to help with this effort.
Official XBMC software application names:
- XBMC for Linux
- XBMC for Mac
- XBMC for Windows
- XBMC for Xbox
XBMC en Ubuntu 8.04 from MuyComputer on Vimeo.
Go to the PODCAST PAGE for the latest Video and AudioPodcast..
yes.. even ogg format 
The next season will be much better. Better recorded and produced. We have learned a lot. Thanks for listening.
~josh
This video demonstrates why you should change your default bluetooth headset pin. This user, “brandon90″ from Wyoming demonstrates how he can eavesdrop a conversation even if the bluetooth is not connected to a phone call. You can still listen in on the microphone, and even inject arbitrary audio to the headset.
He uses a linux laptop, with a Bluetooth dongle, a high gain DB antenna and his Nokia phone to do this. Watch the video below for the demonstration. The tool he is running is called “car whisperer” which can be installed on any linux laptop.
enjoy…
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- My wedding has been finalized. Friday April 29th, my girl and I will get hitched in Antigua, which is a gorgeous island in the Caribbean. #
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Ubuntu UDS Videos - 2008
So UDS is taking this week in Prague. For those who aren’t familiar with what UDS is, it’s a working summit for developers to discuss, and develop existing and new applications to further the development of Ubuntu. Below are some video podcasts from the event.
Travis Watkins, Jono Bacon, James Westby, and others have been conducting interviews and posting them on the yourtube channel. Since there doesn’t seem to be any other resources available for streaming /flickr stream, this is the best we have thus far. This is an open invitation for Canonical to feel free to fly me out anytime to do photo / video / streaming media for the events
Now that I have your attention with the title, I was once again surprised, but not shocked to read the article relating to DRM restrictions built into Windows Vista. Ars Technica has a story detailing the issues end users were experiencing with recording their favorite television programs. The issue is being investigated by NBC and Microsoft, and from what it looks like, it seems someone “accidentally” fell on a switch that prohibited VISTA MCE users to record American Gladiator & Medium.
You know, if you have listened to our podcasts or watched the show, where I stand on DRM better known as (digital restrictions management) and this article is just fuel for the fire for open source software. Or at the least, non-DRM platforms.
The not so computer savy general market is getting ripped off. They are paying for hardware, operating systems and content delivery, which is controlled by a third party on the way it will work and when, even if by accident. Tivo, and regular DVR users were not impacted by this as it was isolated to only VISTA MCE users. So if anything you get from this is to acknowledge the fact that Big Businesses (cough-Microsoft) in content delivery are not trying to find ways to best serve their customers, but looking out for their own interest even at the expense of your entertainment and product satisfaction.
Here is a screenshot of an EPIC FAIL
-josh
This episode Josh, Joel, and Eric cover some recent open source applications, as well as discuss new methods to stream media.
I greatly apologize that the audio .mp3 file is not available for this cast. We record the audio as a separate stream, and the HDDD failed so we only have the video portion available this time.
Also available on our Main Podcast Page
Linuxcrypt.net Vidcast Episdoe #009 from linuxcrypt on Vimeo.
So I just watched the game trailer for Mirror’s Edge. I have to say, just from the graphics alone, I’m going to have to get this game. Take a look at the Trailer here:
This game will be available for xbox 360, PC and PS3.
For more game details check out the Wikipedia page.
Full game video available here.
First off, I want to thank Dan Trevino from the Florida LoCo team for helping me get this working. I was beginning to rip my hair out and cry like a little baby, (F this linux crap, I’m buying a mac) moment. So for a long time I have used “rippedwire” to rip my “legally” purchased DVD’s out to my network so I can stream them. If you haven’t heard of rippedwire, RippedWire is a graphical front end to HandBrake, the open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter.
It works just fine on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. I was having mono dependency errors however installing it on Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS release. Below are the instructions for installing this (BAMF) application.
First, download rippedwire DEB package to your home directory.
$ sudo apt-get install mono-mcs
$ sudo apt-get install mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp2
$ cd to your home directory of where the deb package is i.e. cd /home/username
$ sudo dpkg -i –force-overwri
**UPDATED Instructions
The instructions should be modified to be:
1. sudo apt-get install mono-mcs mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp2
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb
Download the monofix package here
I should also point out… if you’ve already installed with the ‘old’ instructions you can ‘fix’ your system by doing:
1. sudo apt-get install -f
This will remove handbrakegtk
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb
Ok, now you are ready to party like a rockstar.
Go to Applications > Sound & Video> HandBrakeGTK
Load a DVD, you click on the source button, select your movie and desired settings, and rip away, like you see below as I’m ripping Snatch!
Thanks again Dan !
