Windows Media Center, OGM and MKV
So, I’m setting up a HTPC (Home Theater PC), and a lot of my video files are in OGM or MKV because they tend to be of higher quality than most AVI. By default, of course, Windows Media Center (and Windows Media Player) will not play these types of files. In order to remedy that, I installed K-Lite Codec Pack Mega followed by K-Lite Codec Pack x64. Read more
Tags: media center, mkv, ogm, windows media center
User Deletion, iPhone Friendly, Facebook Updates
A number of changes today. I deleted all the users that appeared to be spam users (which was all of them). I added a plugin that enabled a special skin to be used for smartphones (particularly the iPhone). I also added a plugin that will post to facebook when I’ve made a new post here.
Automatically Run and Minimize iTunes
So, more people now are having servers at home, which they’re using to run iTunes and stream to various speakers plugged into Airport Express routers. Myself included. Read more
Lunarpages Name Server Spoof
So it looks like sometime yesterday morning, the Lunarpages name servers in Vegas were spoofed and many of the websites hosted by Lunarpages were being redirected all over the place. It seems to be mostly fixed now, but there appears to be some propagation issues still, at least with the Comcast “domain helper” DNS servers. Hopefully it’ll stabilize soon.