RE: [uka_d] Mini-mac as a (kind of) HTPC

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Aaah, mac is built on linux isn't it?

BSD Unix I think...

> So all I need to do is write a windows app that telnet's into
> the mac, mounts the image and runs the dvd player (I just
> know it's not going to be this simple!)

Of course it won't be ... It never is!

> Actually, and my linux is a little rusty, if I simply telnet
> in and mount the volume with a common name I could have an
> automator that plays it in full screen?

LOL - I do like your childlike faith in how it should work.. ;-)

> No that's probably
> got to be too simple to work

I can hear reality cleaning its teeth ready to bite you in the arse..

> I'm really trying hard not to like the mac, but it's getting
> very difficult!

Oh yeah - a beautiful bit of kit ... I just wish it had a piece of software
like Media Centre.

Phil