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The other day I installed Windows 7 RC 64bit onto a spare PC , and plugged in my Dazzle/Pinnacle USB hybrid DTV stick (330e). Windows installed the drivers itself, and following the tuning menu in MCE, it found the Irish DVB-T ( DTT trial) broadcast. When I tried to play it on the PC, it complained about codecs and wouldn't display. I added my xbox360 as a media extender, and it played the channels fine via MCE ! ( the dvb-t here is h.264 ). Next I added a PCI satellite card ( nova-s-plus ), pointing at astra 2D. It found channels such as BBC1 etc, and BBCHD. These all played fine on the 360 too ! Next I tried some divx and xvid via MCE (not via upnp or media player) , these were fine. Lastly I tried some MPEG-TS files in HD , these were not fine. HDTVpump didn't make and difference. They would think they were playing, but I got no audio or video on my 360. They played fine on the PC. I tried it on a macbookpro core duo, and they played on the 360 then. It appears MCE i...

To receive the DVB-T stations in Ireland, I used Full Scan (Tuned) with these settings Freq. 738000000 Band. 8Mhz Inversion. Auto Constellation QAM 64 LP Coderate 1/2 HP Coderate 2/3 Trans. Mode 8k Guard Interval 1/32 Hierarchy None

Simple and very very very yummy. Prepare today for tomorrow 1-2 pks (14 biscuits approx but depends on size) of really good quality double chocolate chip cookies 100ml Baileys Cream Liqueur 250ml Cream, whipped Chocolate Shavings, Drops to decorate, or Cadburys Flake broken up, or sprinkle of cocoa Use a 9" spring form tin otherwise its tricky to remove the finished cake Pour the Bailey into a bowl One by one, dip or soak (depending on how strong you want it) the biscuits into the Baileys Once each on is soaked place in the tin until you have a layer Cover and spread evenly the freshly whipped cream Repeat the dipping processing and make another layer on top of the cream Cover and spread with cream again Sprinkle with the chocolate shavings or drops or flake etc to decorate Leave in the fridge overnight to allow the biscuits to absorb the cream mixture Remove from fridge just before serving and enjoy !!! (Increase quantities of Baileys and biscuits as required) Serve as is without...

I recently drove from Wexford to Dublin. I decided to scan for wireless networks on the way. Some interesting stats I found 192 Access Points; Security types were; [Open] 38 [IBSS] 2 [WEP] 89 [WEP][IBSS] 1 [WPA-PSK-TKIP] 8 [WPA-PSK-TKIP][WPA2-PSK-CCMP] 51 [WPA-PSK-TKIP][WPA2-PSK-CCMP-preauth] 1 [WPA-PSK-TKIP+CCMP][WPA2-PSK-TKIP+CCMP] 2 Of the 192 AP's, 128 were Eircom mac Addresses Of this 128 , 15 had their SSID's non default (13 were netopia mac 00:0f:cc) Of the remaining 113, 62 were wep, 7 open and 44 WPA/WPA2 Of this 113, 67 were netopia macs 00:0f:cc, the ones with extra easy to crack wep. Of this 67, 5 were open and 1 was WPA/WPA2 and 61 were still WEP. What this tells you is that nearly every one with a netopia that had bad wep, have not changed their setup. Eircom need to fix this.

Well putting a 3g modem into my wgt634u , with open wrt, connecting by ethernet a WRTP54G , then linking it to home via openvpn, to my SPA3102, works. Now I can place a call from a remote location, via voip/3g out my home phone line, which has unlimited local/national calls :-) Not to get T.38 working, so that from a remote location my sky multiroom can dial to sky, presenting my home CLID to keep them happy. Right now the WRTP54G doesn't detect the modem calls or T.38, so it does it as a straight g771u call, the modems start to sync, sometimes lock and swap data, but always fail

I have one of these installed Heatmiser PRT but am thinking of changing to one that supports rs485 :-) like this one Heatmiser-PRT/HW-N.html Heatmiser will give the protocol docs out, and it looks similar to resol vbus :-) EDIT: they sent me the docs for V3 protocol which is the current shipping model

the k850i should be with me next week, it should be usb ethernet, lets see does it break like the k800i did ....