[X4U] mac mini hooked to a TV

Paul Moortgat paul.moortgat at pandora.be
Wed Apr 1 13:23:58 PDT 2009


I use an USB stick to see pictures on our Sony.  Beautiful.  For  
movies I use a DVD or Blu-Ray player.  I converted our Sony DVD player  
region free for 13 euro.  I now watch NTSC DVDs from Amazon.

Paul Moortgat


On 01 Apr 2009, at 19:13, John Masters wrote:

> The NAS is a Buffalo Linkstation (one of 2) which runs a cutdown  
> version of Debian Gnu Linux. I have never investigated what hardware  
> (ie hard drive) it contains as it has worked faultlessly out of the  
> box with both Linux and Mac clients. It comes with 2 USB ports and  
> built in printer support. At one time I had them hooked up to an  
> ethernet switch which was connected to an Air Port Express and that  
> worked fine except for streaming video while other parts of the  
> network were in use.
>
> The Mac Mini I admin from my iMac (24" 3.06GHz) using screen sharing.
>
>
> On 1 Apr 2009, at 14:26, John Drake wrote:
>
>>
>> John Masters and 69Abel,
>> Wondering what OS you are running on your NAS unit, if it's acting  
>> just as a server and not using not a full blown version of X.
>> And if you wouldn't mind what you are using for the hardware.
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Regards, John
> johnmasters at me.com



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