December 2007 Archives

For the last decade or so I've been saying I'd work for Tom Mornini again if I could. The opportunity has presented itself; and I've decided to go ahead and leave my position at Yahoo. I'm joining EngineYard.com at the start of the year. They are offering high availability hosting and professional services with an emphasis of Ruby on Rails. Wish me luck!

Some of the things we want to watch are... region 2 *only*. Grr!

Here's a cheap DVD player ($41 at Amazon - and with Amazon Prime, it was delivered free!), that can play discs from any region. It also can play PAL movies on my NTSC tv. The DVD player *is* cheap - the remote is a peice of crap, and the surround sound output is coax only, no optical. But, it does seem to work, and for the price it was worth a gamble for me.

To make it region code free follow these instruction:

• 1. Turn on the unit
  
• 2. Open the loading tray
  
• 3. Press the "Setup" button on the remote
  
• 4. Navigate to the "Preferences" page using the right arrow key
  
• 5. Press the down arrow once to enter the Preference page
  
• 5. Enter 138931 on the remote
  
• 6. You will now see the current region code displayed
  
• 7. Use the Up/Down arrow keys to select the region required or "0" for all regions
  
• 8. Press the "Play" button on the remote
  

This entry has been tagged "screwballs" in honor of the MPAA.