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Comment UPnP AV / DLNA to the rescue... soon... maybe (Score 3, Informative) 438

by inu_maru (#30018148) Attached to: Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio?

In the upcomming months plenty of companies will start offering DLNA DMR devices (https://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/MediaRenderer).
You can stream the music from your NAS directly to this devices, as long as you have the software (ushare, twonkymedia, windows 7 has it as 'Play To').
There are not many devices available as of now, but they will be in the next few months.
DMR software: foobar2000 (need a plugin), rythmbox (needs a plugin)

Just an idea, you can google the rest.

Comment Re:Has anyone considered... (Score 1) 407

by inu_maru (#26677151) Attached to: Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful

Still,it shouldn't forbid you from accessing it.

This is what i'm getting now:

Forbidden
Your client does not have permission to get URL /interstitial?url=http://www.test.com/ from this server. (Client IP address: xxx.xx.xxx.xxx)

Yeah, you either just delete the inters-whatever-itial part and go directly to the link... but is not something a none geek would think of first.
Communications

The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds 117

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the when-someone-asks-if-you're-a-god-you-say-yes dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Things have been a bit quiet on the virtual world front recently, but according to an article in Silicon.com, things are about to change. Apparently it's only now that virtual worlds are really going to become a force to be reckoned with. 'Now experts predict the virtual world phenomenon is entering a second phase in which businesses will become shrewder about their involvement in such environments and look more carefully at the tangible benefits they can realize. Emerging technology specialist at IBM, Robert Smart, is confident virtual worlds will become more important to businesses in the coming years.'"
Transportation

Dutch Town Lays Air-Purifying Concrete 295

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i-hate-august-news-cycles dept.
eldavojohn writes "In an effort to combat air pollution, a Dutch town has paved some of its streets with air-purifying concrete. It contains a titanium dioxide-based additive that utilizes sunlight to turn car exhaust into harmless nitrates. It was shown to do this in a lab and now the scientists are interested in just how much this will affect the air quality around the road. They will sample the air quality by a normal road and by this newly paved one."
The Internet

Japanese Online Connectivity Ahead of EU/US 259

Posted by Zonk from the sweet-sweet-connectivity dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The experience of getting online in North America and Europe is years behind the internet connectivity options in Japan, the New York Times reports. While here in the US cable and DSL options are still struggling to reach rural areas, eight million Japanese consumers are now enjoying fiber optic speeds at home for comparable prices. The article explores the fiber-to-the-doorstep approach the country's telecoms are taking, with examination of both the ups and downs of such an ambitious project. 'The heavy spending on fiber networks, analysts say, is typical in Japan, where big companies disregard short-term profit and plow billions into projects in the belief that something good will necessarily follow. Matteo Bortesi, a technology consultant at Accenture in Tokyo, compared the fiber efforts to the push for the Shinkansen bullet-train network in the 1960s, when profit was secondary to the need for faster travel. "They want to be the first country to have a full national fiber network, not unlike the Shinkansen years ago, even though the return on investment is unclear."'"

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