R.I.P Steve Jobs

Headline says it all. Thanks for being a constant inspiration during my adult life, as a developer and as a person who wants a simple, down-to-earth approach to life.

You changed the world, made it a better place and inspired others to do the same. R.I.P.

apple.com/stevejobs

Enjoying your media in the living room

Back in the day, I used to have an old Xbox v1. It was modded to enable it to run Xbox Media Center, the best mediasolution I’ve ever seen. It played EVERYTHING I threw at it, no questions asked.

However, when my old standard-definition TV was dying, I wanted to upgrade to a new, shiny LCD TV, and so I did. Back then, it didn’t matter as much, as HD content really wasn’t that popular yet, and the display of SD content on the TV was rather acceptable.

Now, some years later, I recently had a small batch of money, and therefore decided to retire the, now old, LG 32″ TV, and get a brand-sparkling-new 47″ LED version instead. Now doing that was one thing, but I really wanted to upgrade my mediacenter as well. My initial thought, being the Apple-fanboy that I am, was to get a Mac Mini, and hack that like a madman. However, I knew that the advancements within “nettops” (Small desktop computers based on the lowpower netbook cpu’s) meant that you could get a similar sized PC at half the price of the Mini (And using less power too, something quite important in these global warming times ;) ). Read the rest of this entry…

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