It's not out yet... my family's Windows 7 machine got that popup earlier. It looks like it's just a way for you to reserve a free upgrade to Windows 10, so that when it's released, it will auto-download to your PC. So... I mean, if you want it when it comes out, go for it.

Huh. Interesting. Thanks for the tip. It's worth at least looking into.

Weekend indeed. I'm planning to binge watch the new Daredevil series soon after my classes and internship today.

dandy72 wrote:

But is there one available at all?

There are at least two, but I couldn't get at least one of them to work. I may not have even tried the other one.

dandy72 wrote:

thought XBMC had tons of plugins...surely there's something that'll let you do that?

Perhaps. I haven't looked into it myself. I figured that it probably didn't exist. I'll follow up if I find anything.

dandy72 wrote:

Do follow up if you find something worthwhile...

Will do, provided I remember. If I did write software for it, and made it open-source, would anyone here be willing to help?

It seems to be a small pain getting a plugin for Netflix in there for now. Besides that, the interface feels a bit clunky, and I want to be able to create playlists with media from multiple sources.

Thanks for the suggestion. If I ever do get around to it, I want to make it open-source, and attempt to provide weekly updates until I deem it "finished"... or until the community takes over. Whatever comes first.

I've been wanting a PC app that displays and allows me to play media from several sources (like Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, Google Play, local files, etc.). I haven't been able to find anything that fits what I want. I tried XBMC (now Kodi), and it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. Do you have any suggestions? Or should I just buy an Apple TV? Or heck, write my own software? (I've had the urge to do that recently, too, so I'm willing to give it a go.)

Is Thinking C++ a good book for beginners to start with?

That was really unexpected... thanks!

Dude... that would never happen.

I'm guilty of doing this, admittedly. Or, I'll do a search and can't find it, post the question, and a few hours, search again. It would be that on the second search I find what I'm looking for... :| Live and learn, I guess.

Ahh... admittedly, I've been guilty of leaving commented code behind, but they were left behind to work with later. However, I don't think I ever commented copied code like that...

*Facepalm* I shoulda looked further down the page. Sorry. Thanks!

That's painful. Reminds me of when I first learned exception handling... I programmed a message box for most, if not all, exceptions... Don't worry. I've learned. :-D

Just asking... I've only got 20 points at the time of this writing. When you read this, probably 21.

Scary... just a reminder to comment my code well :-D

It's kind of ironic that you'd bring this up... I was wondering a little bit about file shredding recently. So, from what I'm gathering on this thread, and from other places I've seen online, all that I'd really have to do to shred a file is overwrite it several times, or is there more to it?

Haha, no it's nothing like that.

A little bit of effort is okay to me, as long as it's not out-of-pocket.

Well, I'm known for finding free and legal music downloads. Stuff like that I guess.