My Junkyard

Tonight I decided to find out what kind of media servers that use Upnp (universal plug and play) there are for a Mac that support the Playstation 3. To watch video and play music on your PS3 streaming it to the Mac.

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know I currently use Medialink which is fine, but maybe there are good alternatives?

Here is the list

Mediatomb (open source)

Fink (open source, not sure if it supports the PS3)

TwonkeyMedia (commercial, 30 day trial)

Medialink (commercial, 30 minute trial)

Allegro media server (commercial, time limited trial)

That’s it for now , I’ll add more later Don’t be shy to report more media servers for the Mac that support the PS3

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I was really excited to see that Spore would be released by Electronic Arts this weekend. Now I’m not that excited anymore. I don’t really have games on my Mac, simply because I haven’t bought any except the ones that came with a software bundle I bought on the internet. 

Trying to find some info about Spore I found several sites reporting NOT to buy this game? Why? 

It seems EA put in some crazy security thingies that makes life pretty hard. I read that you can only install the game 4 times? If you would like to install it for the fifth time (for whatever reason) you’ll need to contact EA and say please to get another serial code. 

Another reason not to buy the game is DRM and SECUrom it’s protected and messes with you internal PC. Sending all kinds of info towards EA!!!

So I decided not to buy this one , thanks a lot EA for putting this junk in! 

For the people who want to try the game anyway…. good luck

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Hmm, i’ve installed akismet spam manager directly when I installed wordpress. Untill now It has cought about 850 spam messages (in under 4 months). I’m woundering what idiots are sending this spam and who benefits from it.  I’m talking about spam via the comments btw.

Could it be that I’m just lucky and none of the spam seem to do any harm. All that is in the spam messages are a bunch of links and I never ever click on one. So no harm done? 

I really should install this new Wordpress 2.6.2 version. The dashboard software of Wordpress has been telling me to upgrade to this new version for many weeks….. but hey, I’m not complaining even the old version seems to work just fine. Maybe I’ll try the new version a little later today……..

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