Wednesday 20 April 2011

Say what?

I was looking at the stats for this blog.

The most common keyword search for this site is:
shop to earn compensation plan.

That implies that my posts about Mary Kay, and Shop To Earn http://plainsofninsianna.blogspot.com/2008/07/shop-to-earn.html are what gets people here.

However, my post about Thunderbird is the one that has the most views.

This is not from "All Time", where older posts might reasonably be expected to have more views than newer posts.  This is from last month's stats. OTOH, I haven't been posting much to this blog recently.

Friday 15 April 2011

A Media Centre

I setup a Linux Box to use as a media centre.
Then bought a big screen TV for it.

Problem: The TV does not have a VGA port for the computer.

Solution # 1: Buy an Android tablet with an HDMI out. Use VLC to stream content from the Linux Box media centre. Watch content on the big screen TV.

Solution # 2: Buy an Android tablet and NSA. Connect the two together. Watch content on the big screen TV.

The real irony is that Android Gingerbread is a better server than Microsoft's Home Media Server 2011 is. (Fewer bugs, and more out of the box functionality.)

Coming soon to a tablet near you: AAMP.

AAMP := Android + Apache + MySQL + Python/PERL/PHP.