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PiBox was built as a proof of concept for a variety of purposes. One of those was to serve media in my trailer when we go camping. I use omxplayer to play videos that are provided over SMB between a server and a player system. That works okay but the […]

Streaming just got easier, with DLNA and Roku

Sat January 09, 2016 in General / Linux / Movies / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Video tagged DLNA / DVD / Fedora / Linux / music / Open Source / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Roku / Video

My daughter is heading off to college shortly and I’ve been informed that mother and daughter will be communicating via text messages. I disabled text messaging on my and my wife’s phones to prevent unwanted charges from dorks sending unwanted messages. Now I have to turn it back on. Oh […]

Getting new phones: argument for the Palm Pre = Linux ...

Fri August 21, 2009 in Hardware / Linux / Personal / Software Development tagged capitalism / consumer choice / gsm network / kernel / Linux / music / sim card / sprint phones / text messages (updated 5359 days ago)

I got an email from XM Radio last month stating that my multi-radio discount would be going away in March. I have two radios subscribed (though we actually have more radios than that, they just aren’t all turned on right now), both in our cars. The increase in price is […]