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Some news: I've been trying to get some sort of media server set up to our living room interfaces (the big TV/home-theater thing) but having little luck in finding a reasonably priced general server. It's pretty easy getting music over to the receiver, but what about Picasa images? What about podcasts of various formats? What about youtube? Hulu video/movies? What about the web? Yes, the web - why can't I display my calendar or travel info without crowding people into the small office?

Of course, my Time-Warner cable box is Linux-based, but closed to hacks. My answer to all this was to get a Mac Mini. It's now setup, wirelessly connected to the office server, etc. While the user interface is confusing :-), the functionality is all there. I've even programmed the new remote control to manage the Mac iLife application.

In other news, I've upgraded to the Treo 755p with EV-DO access. I'm still impressed at the Palm interface (even more so than the Mac). I've had an ever expanding Palm contact list and calendar from about 1996, and every new Palm I've moved to has just sync'd and managed that data transfer and application re-installs seamlessly. Posted by netrc at February 6, 2008 09:47 AM