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bfauska:
The search for a frontend in the HTPC is more complex than here so be ready for some research to find the best one for your needs. I used to be fairly into Xlobby, I just sort of lost momentum and interest on my home theater a while ago and they started to get ready to go commercial. It may still be worth looking into, otherwise you could take a look at the HTPC section of the avsforums.
Xlobby takes a good deal of work to set-up but there is still a free version available I think. The HTPC forum may be daunting, but it should be good info. Any of the front ends have good forums themselves, but in order to choose one you have to start somewhere.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 18, 2007, 12:23:15 pm ---
You do know that you are liable for all net activity through your contracted connection? If that person had chosen to use your connection to do something really illegal, like distribute child porn, or send out threatening emails to public officials, it would have been your ass in a sling, not his, until you could specifically prove both that it was a third party and exactly who it was.
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I don't think that's really true. I wouldn't be liable until I proved it wasn't me, so much as I might be suspected until they failed to prove that it was. I can see it causing a great big inconvenience in a worst-case scenario where someone was downloading child porn or something, but what are the chances of that happening, really? And in the end they would subject all my hard drives to data forensics, would find that they couldn't turn up a single instance of child porn, and that would be that. It would be VERY inconvenient and stressful, but it'd all be over and then I'm sure I'd never let anyone else ever use my internet connection.
But I just can't be bothered to allow something like that to have a great deal of influence over my daily behavior. It's the same reason I refuse to watch the news. I think television news has turned into something very unhealthy. It causes people to be afraid of life. I live in a quiet neighborhood -- Coral Gables, FL. I had ONE trick-or-treater this year. ONE! And it was my next-door neighbor! Depressing. People are convinced that the world they see on the 10:00 news is something real, rather than a manufactured product that contains lots of sex and violence for the same reason anything on TV does -- because it sells.
boykster:
Whether or not you are legally liable or not, your service provider has every right to drop you for abuse of service. If someone is using your wifi and violates your TOS with your provider, they have every right to cancel your account. Trust me, I know, it almost happened to me.
As for HTPC frontends, there are tons of options. I use Mainlobby/DVDLobby but its highly tweaked (custom backend and IR interface). Your mobo may have an IRDA header, but that's not going to get you much in the way of IR input for control. You'll need an IR interface that is supported by the frontend you choose as well as supports consumer IR remotes. usb-uirt is definately a good choice.
Its a big can of worms you're opening here, but it's fun to mess with and can be cheap if put a lot of sweat equity into it.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on November 19, 2007, 09:55:19 pm ---I don't think that's really true. I wouldn't be liable until I proved it wasn't me, so much as I might be suspected until they failed to prove that it was. I can see it causing a great big inconvenience in a worst-case scenario where someone was downloading child porn or something, but what are the chances of that happening, really? And in the end they would subject all my hard drives to data forensics, would find that they couldn't turn up a single instance of child porn, and that would be that. It would be VERY inconvenient and stressful, but it'd all be over and then I'm sure I'd never let anyone else ever use my internet connection.
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A person shady enough to use your internet connection to cover their pedophilia would also be shady enough to drop "evidence" onto your hard drive. There have been a couple of cases of this in the past but for the life of me I can't find reference to them right now. Few people who would run open wireless would set up client firewalls to prevent that from happening.
shmokes:
My wifi access was on DMZ . . . an intruder was probably not going to be getting through y firewall and dropping anything on my hard drive. And I was never worried about the terms of service of my ISP being violated. Clearly, once my connection was being abused I had my own reasons to cut them off irrespective of the ISP's interests.
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