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1. Open window
2. Throw everything out the window.
3. Go to buy new gadgets.
4. Enjoy.
Now if only those gadgets would not be so expensive... 
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I know what you mean - it would be so nice if all these bits worked together.
I have to be very careful what gadgets I introduce - if Herself doesn't understand it then there is a good chance I won't be allowed to use it, so it has to be as transparent as possible. That's (partly) why I have a media player with a HDD hooked to the TV via USB rather than the two other ways it can be hooked - she doesn't understand the menu system! (I have to admit it's a bit cr@p and unfriendly)
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Believe it or not, but after installing Serviio everything started working again, with that ugly router and the same files...
And it's free, little footprint, ultra-easy to set up...
Droool!
And thank you for your posts!
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I have seen the zero length things before. It was because the path to the media was too long. 
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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Not in that case, all videos are in the same folder and one that is failing name has only 3 chars length so... This shouldn't be the reason here...
Thank you for posting!
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Weird. Try VLC and see what it does. It may be that the media metadata is corrupted.
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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VLC makes everything perfect... even mediaplayer 12 plays those files well, the problem I had was that having a 0 seconds length media player could not play to my TV the files whose length was not bigger than 0...
Now it is already solved using another approach: I'm using serviio to stream those films to my tv and it works like charm!
Thank you for posting your thoughts!
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MIT's EE 6.002x is "the edX version of MIT’s introduction to electrical engineering class," offered on-line to thousands.
With the guidance of an idealistic young Stanford Ph.D. student, Tony Kim, who traveled to Ulan Bator on a shoe-string budget to work with young Mongolian students [^], a high-school student, Buttushig: "got a 100% on the final: one of 340 6.002x students out of 150,000 in the world to do that."
Buttushig had: "never received any special education abroad."
Tony Kim's blog is here: [^]."
The New York Times has (a now four-part) series, titled "Virtual U," covering developments in on-line education, and this article, today, reported Buttushig's remarkable achievement: [^].
Sometimes, in spite of this life's experience, I feel, for a moment, there is hope for the future of this savage world; I feel (without thinking of the modern dystopian Aldous Huxley connotation) what Miranda may have been feeling in "The Tempest," when she says:
"O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!"
For Tony Kim, and Buttushig: Godspeed !
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“This isn't right; this isn't even wrong." Wolfgang Pauli, commenting on a physics paper submitted for a journal
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I'd like to add Sal Khan[^] to the list of goodly creatures.
/ravi
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Indeed Ravi, I'd put the Khan Academy "up in lights," also.
I think it's wonderful that John Resig, the inventor of jQuery, joined the Khan Academy.
yours, Bill
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“This isn't right; this isn't even wrong." Wolfgang Pauli, commenting on a physics paper submitted for a journal
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Agree 100%. His website is superb.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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You know that she has to be on commission too. How else could she evade immigration authorities for so long, hopping and bopping across the countryside, assuming multiple identities holding multiple addresses under false social security information scrivenings ... and afford to look like that.
All that mascara, the blush caked on thicker than powdered sugar a jelly donut, yellow gold around her neck, etc. And that grey cashmir sweater getup!
If you ask me, that cellphone in her hand was held there by tetanus.
Mortified she was, especially when she went to take a step forward after Jeeves closed the front doors.
Bill, what's your point?
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Maybe you could help me because I'm uncertain what makes you feel this is such a remarkable event. Is it because the student in question is from Mongolia? If you are like me the first association that comes to mind when you think of Mongolia is a semi-literate, nomadic, horse people living in yurts. Of course, if I actually stop to think about it I realize this is a ridiculous characterization based on outdated ideas.
If the student were from London, England or Seoul, South Korea do you think you would have found the story less remarkable?Quote: Buttushig had: "never received any special education abroad."
This quote seems to suggest that it is impossible to receive a decent education within Mongolia. The insinuation being a child educated in Mongolia can not be on par with a western educated child. Is Mongolia really that far behind, especially the capital? I don't know. But, given this child had internet access and, from what I can tell from the pictures, a decent electronics lab in which to work my sense is that my view of Mongolia is much further behind than Mongolia actually is. Hans Rosling does a good job exploring and exploding this type of bias in his Ted talk "The Best Stats You've Ever Seen" [^].
Maybe the piece of this story that really elevates it to the status of remarkable is the fact that the student in question is 15. But how are we to rate the performance of a 15 year old? For this to be remarkable it has to be different from what we expect for a such a person.
At first glance, this does appear to be a performance beyond that of an average 15 year old. But, how are we determining what to expect on average?. It seems we are basing it upon an average child who has received an average education. However, this raises the question, does an average education raise a child anywhere near their true potential? In his talk, "How Schools Kill Creativity" [^], Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and strong argument that they don't.
Is it really surprising or remarkable in any way that a student who has a natural and strong interest in electronics and who is given access to an intelligent, dedicated teacher actually masters the basics of the subject? Wouldn't it be much more surprising if he didn't?
So maybe what is remarkable isn't that the student in question is 15 or that he is Mongolian but that someone, anyone achieved a perfect score on an MIT exam. 150,000 thousand students took the class and only 340 got a perfect score on the final, that's less than 1 in 441. Maybe that is approaching the level of remarkable but the problem is those numbers tell a false narrative.
Here are the official numbers for the course as reported by MIT News [^]Quote: In the end, almost 155,000 people registered for 6.002x. Of those, roughly 23,000 tried the first problem set, 9,000 passed the midterm, and 7,157 passed the course as a whole.
We don't know from this how many people actually attempted the final but of those that passed slightly less than 1 in 21 aced it. This puts Buttushig's performance in the 95th percentile, which is admirable, but I'm not sure it warrants a global day of celebration.
Look, I am in agreement with you that Buttushig deserves praise and encouragement for following his passions. Tony Kim is also to be commended for sharing his time and knowledge so unselfishly. However, I see a great danger in heaping praise on one student for getting a perfect score on the final.
First, what kind of message does it send to the 16 year old that got one question wrong? You're just, an old, dumb sloth that is never going to amount to anything? We don't care about you?
Second, most people seem to enjoy and seek praise, children especially so. By celebrating the 100% score we send the wrong message. We tell children you will get praise and adoration if you do well on the test. However, the point of learning isn't to pass a test. The point, and the joy, of learning is to be able to do something you couldn't before. I don't care if Buttushig got 100% or 0% all I care about is that he can build anything he imagines. If he is excited to continue learning and expanding his bounds he is a success.
By focusing on the prefect performance we are unfairly burdening Buttushig with the expectation of perfection in the future. Even if he is reassured many times this type of attention will likely cultivate a fear of failure that will eventually drain all the fun out of learning.
Now, besides any possible negative effects this type of praise might have on Buttushig, and children in general, I felt compelled to write because I suspected your characterization of the event as remarkable was largely based on misinformation. The conclusion that this is an extraordinary occurrence seems to rest on the confluence of three biases, which crudely stated are, Mongolians are backward, children are stupid, and the course is from MIT so it must be hard.
The bias that the course is hard was largely reinforced by the way the New York Times reported the story and the way the dsruption article emphasized that the course is typically taken by sophomores. I mean, my god, this isn't just some freshman drivel it is a second year course.
Unfortunately, you might interpret things differently if you knew all students at MIT have a series of courses they are required to take including physics and calculus. Many students spend a good portion of their first year just getting these required courses out of the way. Even a course like, 6.001, introduction to computer science, might mostly be taken by sophomores even though it doesn't have any prerequisites.
I actually took the electronics course in question and despite the claims in the official course description it required no more than a high school level of algebra to successfully pass.
What I find truly remarkable in all of this is that the New York Times and MIT are so highly regarded. Either through incompetence or deliberate deception they combined to tell a story that is misleading by anything but politician standards.
By only reporting the number of people that initially enrolled for the artificial intelligence course the Times implied an impact that is an order of magnitude too high. Was this because the Times reporter didn't do any fact checking, did they just blindly trust the information because it was coming from an infallible, academic institution? Did the university representative providing the information only offer the numbers which matched the story they wanted told?
I ask you to go back and read the second paragraph of the Times article [^]. Within that paragraph they highlight the two extremes, the highest number of people ever to sign up for a single online course anywhere at anytime, and a single boy from a foreign country that passed a course. Together, they imply that online learning is creating super geniuses at an industrial pace.
Neither fact is representative of online classes. If you knew that only 10% of people who sign up for a pilot online course even attempt to complete it or that the boy in question had the help of a private electronics tutor throughout the duration of the course you might have a very different opinion about what the impact of online learning really is.
In this case, the Times strongly favored sensationalism over journalism. But it is hard to cast too much blame. The truth doesn't sell as many newspapers for the Times or get as many donations for MIT as stories like this do.
Stone casting aside, the main thing I am left wondering is why we are so attracted to stories like this in the first place? Why do we want the internet to be fueling a revolution? Why do we feel the need to elevate a boy to hero status? I don't think it is for the boys sake.
My guess is these desires stem from a recognition that things are not as good as they could be, perhaps by a considerable margin. We want some powerful force or some powerful person to come and magically fix everything for us because that would be a lot easier than having to do the work ourselves. Anyway, I better stop now. I only meant to rain on your parade not drown you.
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It could be a firewall issue, on your router try seeing if you can find where to add the ip address from the tv and add it as allowed to access the network.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I've connected the tv directly to the pc with a crossed cable.
It started working...
After that I've plugged again the tv and the pc to the router... Guess what? It worked! 
Well, I'm resetting both devices to see if that is still working or not...
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It still works... 
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Now reset the router and see if it still does...that way a power cut won't confuse you for days! 
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You know why I've upvoted you... 
Hey, but I've tried Serviio as Rutvik has recommended and it started working as charm without tuning anything... it is clear that WMP12 is not doing the job well here... 
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1. Gave up...
2. Installed Serviio.
3. crossed fingers.
4. Work.
It has taken almost the same time that you've spent Reading it... easy and working! 
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The important bit is you got it working 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I use a PS3 connected to the TV but then again the TV is 5yo. I use the Vuze media palyer on the PC and PowerLAN for the networking (wifi just does not work with the video files). Plug everything in, tell the PowerLANs to look for each other, tell the pc/Vuze to play nice with the pissy 3 and it just works!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Much easier tan with WMP12 I guess!
thank you for posting, but I've went for serviio after Rutvik's recommendation and after seeing it is perfeclty compatible with our TV!
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First make sure your TV is DNLA / UPnP enabled. It is able to browse internet so I am guessing it does support these protocols.
There are many ways to connect your PC to your TV. Here is very one of the easy way. I have just implemented it at my uncle's house few days ago, and it works just fine.
1. Download and Install Serviio[^] on your PC.
2. Setup serviio, it is very easy and make sure it finds your TV connected in the home network. After that the software will decode the movies / music / pictures on your PC and send it to your TV.
3. Add Files / Folders that you want to share among your connected devices.
4. On your TV try to access DNLA / UPnP Devices, once it finds serviio. It will list all the files / folders you have shared.
More info, and one quick note, in the TV's network settings I assigned it an IPAddress, so that whenever the router restarts it finds the TV easily. (And so that my uncle doent call me every other week  )
After this you will be able to access your content from any device connected to your router, including your smartphone or tablet.
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Rutvik Dave, after struggling as a mad man with that, finding that:
- WMP12 can't read correctly some files in it's library and assigns them 0 seconds lenght.
- WMP12 fails on finding TV.
- WMP12 mixes all the files of one kind (music videos and films).
I've installed Serviio, and it has started working properly just after installing it.
Wonderful toy.
Thank you!
I'd like to be able to upvote your post more tan once...
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