My Xmas present to myself.

[StrikedOut]

These were my Xmas presents to me;

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/nvidiageforcegraphicscards/nvidiagtx660tikeplerseries/n660tipe2gd5oc.html

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/solidstate/128gbandabove/ct256m4ssd2.html

And the best bit is I got them for a little less than the price shown.

[medhunter]

Almost 2 months ago, I had an XBox 360 Slim vanilla and 5 titles in addition to some PC games (11 titles) .

Anyway, I started to love the idea of multimonitors. How I can I get the best of these humble parts

1- 24" LED Full HD TV Monitor.I use it for PC/XBox, but Not as TV

2- 20" Monitor: Slightly below HD res.

3- Ofcourse the HP Laptop HD 15.6, If can be used in the configuration?

Idea?

[Rudy]

My present to myself:

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

My Christmas present to myself:

Dell Vostro 3560

[He's Dead Jim]

I'm gettin two baloons and a stick ;)

[BGM]

this is mine.. get it late jan though due to factory shut-down for xmas :(

3-series is coming up for 5 years old, shame really as i really love my current vehicle, this new one is much MUCH better on the fuel though :D

[javagreen]

Damn that be awesome :o

[Pupik]

Man, your "1" is so weird looking :|

[_neutrino Veteran]

Congrats, i hear those are very nice monitors.

I did not purchase myself anything for the Holidays. Just like every year :D

[firey]

My Present to myself:

And a case that is simmilar to this one:

[Glassed Silver]

My Present to myself:

And a case that is simmilar to this one:

*high paw*

Mine arrived a few weeks ago and I'm loving it.

Wanted to sell it originally, because I wanted to concentrate on other things more again (I planned to code for Linux on it), but I'm finding it to be a very nice XBMC box and quite usable as temporary Apple TV substitute.

Glassed Silver:mac

[firey]

*high paw*

Mine arrived a few weeks ago and I'm loving it.

Wanted to sell it originally, because I wanted to concentrate on other things more again (I planned to code for Linux on it), but I'm finding it to be a very nice XBMC box and quite usable as temporary Apple TV substitute.

Glassed Silver:mac

I got mine beginning of December (so couple weeks ago also). Been doing coding for it. I am using it for video playback with OMXPlayer. My project with it is still a long way off, but my final hope is a setup like this: (I will mark % as to how far complete the project part is).

1. Use Sickbeard to Automatically obtain .NZB Files for shows I watch when they air (100%)

2. Use a custom written server to detect when the NZB is created and launch Grabit to download the NZB (100%)

3. With the server, watch for the movie/video file to be created and insert the name and path into a database (100%)

4. Have a PHP Page running on a local wamp server that reads the database and displays all the video files (100%)

5. The page has a "Play" link that when clicked created a text file in a trigger folder with the file name and path (100%)

6. Have the server watch the trigger folder for the files to be created, then parse the file (100%)

7. Have a custom client on the RPI that connects to the media server and awaits commands (100%)

8. The server will parse the file and send commands to the pi ie) Mount path as /mnt, and launch omxplayer with args (100%)

9. Have the web-page update to know when the video is playing, and offer a remote style view for video control (0%)

10. Have an entire FrameBuffer GUI backend that will let me have notifications, options, etc on the screen without X (25%)

11. Have the server send notifications to the client (IE: Episode Downloading, Episode Available, [and more]) (50%)

12. Have the notifications that are received by the pi show up in the Framebuffered GUI (0%)

13. Have the FB Gui be able to take user input via STDIN and do things ie: open menus, folders, etc (0%)

Essentially I am writing my own media center stuff that won't need X, or any other Window System it will be direct framebuffer stuff. It's slow going as even writing a letter I do it a pixel at a time, so I have a lot of math and stuff to keep track of when drawing to the screen. But I am doing my best to make hard work be a backend thing, and the front set of code be easy to write.

ie) Instead of drawing each pixel for everything have a drawPixel function that I pass in X, Y, Color and it will draw it, allowing me to use math to automate things like drawing lines, boxes, etc. Same as drawing the strings I have a function that is a simple DrawString("MyString",0,0,Colors::Color.Blue); which then does all the determining of position, how to draw each letter, etc.

It's time consuming, but every little step makes you feel awesome, especially as I am very weak in C++ it's a great way to learn. I opted to do the web-interface so I can control the pi with my Playbook, or Phone, or PC in another room if I wanted to. As long as it's on the network.