Some time back, Yahoo purchased Meedio and turned it into Yahoo Go TV, with some of the better features removed and a few of their own grafted on. Then they mothballed it.
Meedio as a product is dead, but apparently enough people use it and love it that there’s a community dedicated to plugin and add-on development as well as to recreating the product entirely.
So, for the sake of remembering where to look the next time I get a chance to build a HTPC unit… MeediOS.
The list of available selections is somewhat arbitrary, but the results are still mildly amusing:
Keep in mind that if you decide to make your own, you’ll be dealing with German-language instructions. Your mileage may vary.
So. Who wants to pony up and buy a late birthday present for everyone’s favorite little grey duck?
Okay, I kid. I’ll probably buy one myself at some point in the near future. I just wanted to get the link posted here so I won’t forget that I want one, let alone where I found them.
The “DST 2007” fallout isn’t quite as bad as I originally feared, but I’m not completely out of the woods. For instance, there are all of those Outlook recurring appointments to help people straighten out. The stunner, though, is that for some reason certain copies of Windows XP selected the wrong Pacific time zone when they received the DST update patch. What used to be “GMT-08:00 Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana” is now “GMT-08:00 Pacific Time (US & Canada)” and “GMT-08:00 Tijuana, Baja California”.
Spiffy. Guess who gets to figure out how to find and squash this particular dilemma? Sure, it’s not a difficult problem to fix on an individual machine, but try scripting the fix across hundreds of client machines in a variety of environments without breaking something else in the process. My efforts aren’t helped by a (possible) bug in our managed services platform which is preventing me from checking the value of a Windows registry string.
Of course, thanks to the DST change itself, I’m handling all of this after getting up at what felt like four-thirty in the morning. I’ve had worse Mondays, I suppose…
I received the following email at 4:00 in the afternoon today, the 7th of March:
We at Ubuntu Forums would like to wish you a happy birthday today!
Well, at least they’re more accurate than my mother. The Ubuntu Forums are only off by about eight hours, while Mom called three entire days early. Still, I appreciate the sentiment, automated as it may be…
I just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.1.1. I’d be happier about this if a) I’d had much of a choice in the matter, and b) the upgrade hadn’t broken the most important set of sidebar widgets I use. That’ll teach me to use seldom-updated German code, eh? At least I’m now protected from the known vulnerabilities in the core software. Yay.
Links and buttons and a few other things are broken, and will continue to be broken until I can spend some quality time making things work again. I imagine I’ll have to do the fixes the hard way… dammit.
