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Harmony One Universal Remote

Yesterday I got my Harmony One remote made by Logitech, but I didn’t get around to configure it until today. The software for configuring it are windows and mac, I think Logitech should consider making the software for Linux aswell. There is a project called Concordance but currently it doesn’t support the Harmony One model. So, I used Virtualbox with WinXP to do my configuration and it worked nicely without any hassle. I had some problems with my Samsung PS42Q97HD when I was setting up my media centre (which is a Rapsody N35), somehow when it was supposed to switch to HDMI it promptly changed to DTS which was not what i had configured it to do. Well, poking around in the configuration for a while I found an alternative way to fix it with my Samsung by “hard setting” every input. I really like the “One-touch” access feature that enables all units in one go, like if you’re going to watch a movie it powers on all units belonging to that activity. If you’re planning of buying a universal remote I highly recommend this one, it’s really good, ergonomic and it looks stylish.

The researchers at FireEye reports that they’ve found some Srizbi activity in one of their customers networks. They think that Srizbi might be trying to update its zombies with a new undetectable botnet, so now FireEye and the upstream service provider to the hosting centre with the CnC are cooperating to take it off the net. I really admire the work these guys do to keep these idiot botherders and their bots away from the net.

There is a new firmware out for Rapsody N35 at http://www.swissbull-it.com/, version 3.37.

Noteable changes:

• Enhanced video playback
• Better speed and compatibility for network share streaming
• Improved stability
• Better support for USB DVD drives