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Things at Fornebu to report from this week

First, the Christmas tree fell down, wonder if someone had done it on purpose, because the tree did not look _that_ good when standing up. Do think it was fixed Friday afternoon, so it will be Christmas this year as well.

Walked back a bus stop when leaving work on Friday, just to make sure I got a seat in the bus. Saw this sign at Aker Solutions. WTF??? Slippery??? It is ….snow….with sand…slippery??? Also, note – there are still people walking on the lawn outside of the tape, you can see the new track have been made 🙂

NRK on Apple Tv (v1) using XBMC 10.0

Last week I had some struggle trying to enable NRK Nett-TV. The patchstick I had used installed XBMC 9.11, and I found the plugin described in this thread on freak.no. Could not get it to work, suspecting the mplayer-version causing the problem.

So I restored the box using factory restore, then created a patchstick by using the magical piece of software created by the guys behind atvusb-creator. A lot of cursing at first, since none of my usb-sticks would load (Kingston 8Gb), and also another stick of unknown make. Got to borrow a stick from Lars Tormod, one of many of a unknown make he had been handed at some event – but it did the trick. Patch booted, and now I’m running XBMC 10.0. In the list of video addons there is an addon named NRK…installed it and now out the box, we have NRK Nett-TV on our tv using the Apple-TV.

Also – remember to install Nito TV, then goto Settings –> Install Software –> Smart Installer. Thanks to http://www.todaywasawesome.com/enable-usb-on-the-apple-tv/ for reminding me by providing the post found when desperatly searching for help when my usb hard drive was not found. Note, you do not need to download up front, Smart Installer fixes that for you.