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Comment Re:MediaPortal (Score 1) 361

I'd definitely vouch for Media Portal. An excellent open source, free option for organising movies and tv show files - very effective scraping if your file names are meaningful - brining back plot synopsis, cover art, episode caps, cast and crew details, running time, imdb rating. scrape sources are customisable (as is most of the programme) and puts tvdb and imdb to good use. As far as i can tell, it doesn't allow you search by director or actor etc, but it does allow for effective list viewing by year of release or genre etc. There are many plugins available, and maybe one is able to accomodate your needs exactly. failing that, it has a good community, and most plugin creators are open to suggestion when it comes to new and useful features for thier next update. Not so great on the music files though, but my impression of that may be related to the small amount of effort i've put into configuring it.
Canada

Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones" 106

timothy writes "As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous 'body farm' in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones' locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don't pay taxes, and more importantly, they don't vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study what happens when creatures of similar size and hairlessness (aka, us) end up 86ed and in the drink."
Australia

Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs 409

Sasayaki writes "South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson claims, in an interview with Good Game, that gamers were more of a threat to his family than biker gangs. This is the man who has been the biggest opponent to Australia receiving an R18+ rating for video games and who has the power to veto any such law introducing it."

Comment Range is a factor. (Score 1) 519

I tried a few standard cordless mice, and had to go to bluetooth to get further than about 1.8 metres or 6'. The garden variety ones wouldn't reach from my home theatre PC to the coffee table. If you want to use it for presentations or at least from a distance, make sure to check the range - although most boxes won't state any distance/range.
Democrats

Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers 488

kgamiel writes "The Obama campaign's CTO is hiring LAMP-biased geeks for the Boston office to help elect the Senator in the fall. This got me to wondering, what if he instead announced a SourceForge project toward the same end? What would such a project look like? Tools that both sides could use 'equally' would not achieve the desired end. And philosophically, could the Open Source community support one side in a competition such as this? What other issues does this raise?" Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace).

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