Re: Five out of the Six household machines updated with Leopard !

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

in response to your original post, just upgraded my macbook to
leopard, nothing revolutionary for me, some nice touches and so far
only one massive annoyance ....the firewall, they've taken away the
ability to allow custom ports i.e. vnc, remote buddy etc etc, worked
fine on tiger so why take it away!!!

the way around it is either to use terminal and do it from command
line (!!) or an application called waterroof which whilst it does the
job and its free its a lot more complicated and it shouldnt be necessary!!

Anyway enough of the rant, overall tis good, some nice touches! :)
Noel


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "rb_ziggy" <rb.lists@...> wrote:
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@> wrote:
> >
> > I did look at Media Central but it seems it doesn't support more
> than one TV
> > tuner - is that right?
> >
> > Phil
> >
>
> I'm not sure but I suspect you may be right.  However, I didn't get it
> for TV purposes as I use Sky HD for that.  Two reasons, we get useless
> analogue signals and pretty poor digital ones plus I like HD such as
> it is at present.
>
> Biggest drawback of course is that there is no way of integrating this
> all into one user interface on either Mac or PC as far as I know and
> looks like there never will be. Really p***** me off that.
>
> So MediaCentral gives me ripped DVDs with 5.1 audio (bit flakey as you
> seem to sometimes switch 5.1 on on the MC menu, doesn't seem to always
> default to 5.1 and its not obvious when  it is/isnt on on the screen
> menu!). Plus our own movies - which is quite neat as my son does his
> own stuff and an alias to the network directory picks up the latest
> stuff.  And. photos - again setting up directories with aliases
> pointing to the originals works really well without having to
> duplicate 5-6mb images all over the place.  With this setup we don't
> have to rely on iTunes iPhoto etc - I find the Apple emphasis on their
> tools and ignoring anything else really frustrating because the
> household uses a mixed pc/mac environment. I really need everything to
> work off of network directories not internal application directories!
>
> Also, whilst I'm on a bitch, I spent all yesterday pm trying to get
> the Mac to properly size without overscan onto a Pioneer 507XD.
> Eventually got it nearly there but I still loose some LHS and some of
> top menu.  Its not a problem now with MediaCentral, but using the
> normal Mac interface is a bit annoying (although I don't really want
> to do that as it risks residual images on the plasma).  I did a quick
> look around yesterday and it seems Leopard doesnt fix this.  You would
> have thought they could have introduced a variable overscan feature in
> the latest release.  The 10.4 overscan off feature leaves a broad
> black band around the image - almost gives a 42" image on a
50" screen!
>
> Richard
>