> > But you have to pay for Live! Booo! Plus the game servers might not be
> around
> > forever... who knows.
>
> And I think you have to use original game discs eh? Anyway, I wouldn't pay for
> that service so yeah I use kai, with outrun 2 mostly.

Well I definitely don't have to worry about that! ;) Just don't wanna pay for Live, fuck that shit. Seriously, I have no problem with buying games. I just hate subscriptions.

> > Doesn't XBMC work with the remote? And XBMP? Also DVD-X?
> I'm not sure, but I don't have the remote and don't want it, the xbox controller
> is more than enough for me. Btw xbmc=xbmp, xbmc is the updated version of xbmp.

Oh okay, I just know someone who does, and they use it for that shit. I was confused. I don't have one either so I couldn't verify right now.

> > Hells yes (you can also add a SMB share, same thing). This rules, streaming
> > from your PC to any TV in the house and shit. Wonder if
>
> I tried smb once and couldn't get it to work, well ok I tried for 5 mins and had
> no idea what smb was, anyway, sharing works fine.

Oh ok :) Well I don't blame you, it's annoying unless you've got some graphical tool where you can just plunk in a folder name. NFS is more supported in that situation, that's why I wonder if XBMC will support that soon, that would rock.

> Well I use Avalaunch as dashboard, and set it so that when I pop in a dvd movie,
> it automatically start dvd region x.

I like DVD region X except for the controls... :) I wonder if the Gueux player is any good, haven't tried it yet, since they said it was a beta and some shit might not work.

> hey do you happen to know what's a "dongle"? I saw those dongle free dvd players
> and some which dongle was supported, and I don't have any idea what that thing
> is.

A dongle is a piece of hardware that the software won't run without, in the X-Box's case the dongle is the IR module that you stick in the controller port. Some software on PC in the old days used to require you to plug in something into the printer port for copy protection, the software wouldn't run without it. Unless it was cracked :)



Some software still uses it today, but mostly for big business so people don't casually copy the software and take it home. For example some pharmaceudical software that lets you diagnose an illness by specifying the symptoms, that kind of thing has a lot of data in it that a lot of expensive medical teams had to research, so they don't want to make it easy for just anyone to take that kinda thing and pirate it. It's usually used for doctors and pharmacists.