CBC distributes “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” via torrent

Posted by rae in entertainment, the Net
at 11:52 am on Wednesday, 26 March 2008

Wow, not only did the CBC use BitTorrent to distribute the show, they also encoded it as a 545 MB, 720×486 Xvid AVI (as well as a smaller, 320×240 MPEG4 version for iPods). I was half-expecting wmv or QuickTime…

And to top it all off, they put the torrent file up on Mininova! How cool is that?

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Apple TV Hacking: success!

Posted by rae in Reid, entertainment, hardware, homeowner, software
at 2:11 am on Tuesday, 25 March 2008

I managed to get ssh working at last. And then I tried to enable USB storage, but that was a mistake. I thought it meant I could plug in a USB drive and the Apple TV would play content off of it. But no, it meant rebuilding the kernel so that any USB drive plugged in to the Apple TV would have its main disk copied to it.

The idea is that this external, much larger disk will be the new boot volume. But that’s not what I wanted at all. So the Apple TV got stuck, so .. I reset to factory settings (that’s a brilliant option, btw).

So, I know I can do it now. The scripts “out there” are pretty rough and tumble. I’m thinking I may create a Mac OS X 10.4.9 partition on my Mac Pro, just so that I can copy over all the missing frameworks and libraries so that I can get things like wget to work..

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