I have a dream….And its to own one of these little beauties!!! But i can’t find anyone anywhere in the UK that has stock… Any suggestions?
**Update**
Found a stock site!! http://eeestock.cpjackson.co.uk/?4G%20White but nowhere has it……
Monthly Archive for January, 2008
Easily create an MSI for the popular Media Player Classic for deployment.
Basics for those who don’t know!
MSI = Microsoft Installer package that can be deployed in a network enviroment.
MediaPlayerClassic = Popular media player based on the origional media player packaged with windows… its capable of playin all sorts of differning media types and also handily dvds…!!
So whilst creating some MSIs’ for work at work… I realised that none of the staff/teacher laptops had dvd software and we don’t have any site licenses for any software so i thought ok why not use MediaPlayerClassic!?
So I downloaded it and then thought… “ahh…. I have to install it on 160+ laptops…. erm…yea im not getting them out one by one and installing it on them” lol
So i went about creating an MSI with WinInstall LE. I ran the discovery (disco32.exe) which took a snapshot of the OS, then created a folder (c:\Program Files\MediaPlayerClassic), copied the mplayer classic exe into that directory and then ran disco32.exe again.
After a minute or so i had an MSI created ready for deployment… Usually we leave deployment of MSI’s until a time where no teaching is going on and teachers don’t need their laptops to turn boot speedy but as it was 2mb so is was not an issue. I added it to the “Laptops” gpo and thats it!
So if your looking for a way of allowing your users (If your IT admin/techies) to play dvds on their machines… do this its simple fast, very effective and easy to use for the less techie of us!!!
If you would like a copy of MediaPlayerClassic go here and if you want to read up on how beefy MediaPlayerClassic really is check out the wiki
I Somehow randomly stumbled-apon this site today i don’t even no how i got here but it is very cool!!!
I was 1st of all taken to this page…. which listed different info on what the most popular global & U.S. search terms with graphs for the begining month of each quarter. I then clicked the home link at the top to try and figure out what i was looking at!
“Search statistics are automatically generated based on the billions of searches conducted on Google. These statistics and trends make their way from the depths of Google’s hard drives to become the Google Zeitgeist findings”
- iphone
- badoo
- dailymotion
- webkinz
- youtube
- ebuddy
- second life
- hi5
- club penguin
There are also graphs on HD-DVD and blu-ray popularity and which console is searched more…Wii, Xbox360 or PS3!
Above are the most searched for keywords globaly of 2007…!
I think this tool could be very usefull for people trying to bring traffic to their blog/website!!
Keep an eye on Zeitgeist as im sure there will be more statistics on there soon!!!
Today i went back to work after a short christmas brake and found that internet explorer 7 was taking upwards of 15 to 20 seconds to open a new tab…. very annoyed and frustrated with not knowing what i can do with stupid IE… i installed Firefox!
If your not using it already… sort ya life out and download it now!!!
