XBMC is about the coolest thing since sliced bread (if sliced bread were ever really that cool).
It gives me the ability to do pretty much anything I want with my XBOX and it’s attractive as well!
I can play videos over the LAN off of SMB shares, from CD or DVD or pretty much anywhere you can think of.
It’s truly great.
Macromedia Flash supporters are going to have to rework their code as IE has now been fully patched to essentially disable interaction with Flash elements until the user clicks on the element to enable it.
Some may think of this as a godsend, but for developers who use flash in navigation elements of their site (a bad practice) or who use Flash for key interactivity features of their site (a questionable practice) this comes as a great blow to their productivity.
The workaround is simple, use FlashObject – a DHTML loader for Flash elements. It supposedly fools IE into allowing Flash element interaction without clicking beforehand.
The reason why Microsoft decided to do this is in response to a long-running lawsuit between themselves and a company started out of the university of California called Eolas.
After throwing together the DVD drive from one dead XBOX and the motherboard and hard drive of another I finally have a working unit.
Now with the XFCE3 mod chip soldered in I can do pretty much anything I want with it. It’s pretty cool, as I now have EvolutionX as my dashboard instead of the standard green Microsoft one. It allows me to FTP in to my XBOX and add files such as homebrew applications and games.
The real goal here is to make it into a media center where I can play MPEG 1,2,4 / DivX / etc, DVDs and everything else you can think of. More on that later.
Torrentspy, The Pirate Bay… My friend has just informed me they are both down.
The Pirate Bay says it is “database problems”.
How strange. Maybe some cracker has a vendetta against piracy? *shrug* It will be interesting to see how this all turns out.
This website is custom built line-by-line by yours truly.
I have not implemented any BBCode in the ShoutOuts box. Nor will injecting HTML into the ShoutOuts box work.
Have a nice day, and please stop wasting everyone’s time by posting garbage characters.
[EDIT]
I’ve moved on from maintaining the code for this mammoth project myself. I’m way too busy these days so I’m using WordPress instead. Please, if you find a bug – just let me know rather than trashing my site. 
White hat hackers are 10x more ‘elite’ than black hats anyway. They are typically good both in the PC world and in the real world.
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