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Comment on Lack of High Definition content in Mauritius by avinash

avinash — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:08:00 +0000

In Mauritius?

I use a PS3 which works really well with AVI, MP4 and M2TS containers. You can always extract the audio and video streams from the MKV and put them in a M2TS file, say, without reencoding anything. I did that once or twice and the PS3 shows everything nicely…

Comment on Installing Avahi and AFP on the DNS-323 by avinash

avinash — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:06:17 +0000

Hi Rob,

I guess you’ll have to try by yourself to see if you can now access files previously created by “rob.” If not, then you should use chown. As for being sure you’re using AFP and not SMB, the easiest way is to see if you get the public_html (or something named similarly…) when clicking on the icon. If yes, you’re using SMB, unfortunately…

Comment on Lack of High Definition content in Mauritius by Vik

Vik — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:47:50 +0000

No Worries Avinash,
Thanks for trying… Would you know if Media players are sold anywhere in Mauritius? The ones that can play MKV files?

Thanks..

Comment on Installing Avahi and AFP on the DNS-323 by Rob Cameron

Rob Cameron — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:35:42 +0000

Hi avinash,

Thanks for the awesome guide! I got mine set up this evening. One question…

When I first got my Dlink I created a user “rob” that I’ve been connecting as. Now that I have AFP setup, and added a password for the “nobody” user, do I still want to connect as me, or should I actually use “nobody” and the password that I set? Or forget all of that and just connect as Guest? What happens to the files that were created as “rob”? Should I chown them to nobody?

Okay, maybe two questions: is there a way to prove that I’m using AFP and not SMB any longer? When I start up my Mac I see my NAS listed (with a nice new icon) but how do I know it’s not just falling back to using SMB? I can manually connect to afp://10.0.0.10 but how can I trust that when I automatically connect and just browse via the Finder that I’m getting the AFP goodness?

Thanks again!
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Comment on Lack of High Definition content in Mauritius by avinash

avinash — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:08:00 +0000

Anyone?

Comment on Lack of High Definition content in Mauritius by Vik

Vik — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:27:45 +0000

Hey Avinash,

I guess I got the wrong blog…but it was on ur blog page …I remember somewhere around Feb 2010 we were having a discussion on places to buy BDs in Mauritius. It was in a blog about HD content in Mauritius . Someone had written about a shop in P.Louis which sold BDs copied for 150-250 Mur.
Unfortunately, I dont have the name written as I thought these blogs usually store infos..but sadly, that entire topics gone missing… I remember we were posting around Christmas time last year which followed until Feb, thats when I left for Australia..
And I m back in the island, and need to buy some more BDs here…
So pls, If u do seem to recall bout the store somewhere near China town..do write the name.

Thanks..
Cheers

Comment on The future Mauritian cybercity? by Wazz

Wazz — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:37:36 +0000

@ Julio good luck in finding the right motivation and enough time for self-studying and believing that you are going to get employed justy with qualifications … i’m not discouraging you in your studies on your own but i’m rather being realistic and suggest you to make clear decisions before you embark on self-study and not thining about getting experience

Comment on Installing Avahi and AFP on the DNS-323 by avinash

avinash — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:24:06 +0000

There are subtle differences between Leopard and Snow Leopard. If your setup works, then congrats and have fun

Comment on Lack of High Definition content in Mauritius by avinash

avinash — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:23:10 +0000

I don’t think any comment was deleted. Maybe no one gave the name of that store.

Comment on Installing Avahi and AFP on the DNS-323 by Gavroche

Gavroche — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:15:01 +0000

Strange or not ?

I did not make the last step “Making Mac OS X Leopard play nice with Netatalk” on my macbook (running snow leopard) and everything is running fine.

I must say that i did not undestand this step “Give a password to that user and store the password (in clear text) in the user’s home directory as shown here” (i mean the all process described on that external page)… and thus i only executed the command lines in the “grey window” under it (but maybe these command lines make what’s described between the quotes)

Am i wrong ? (dont shoot the newbie )