DLNA At Work (At Home)
DLNA stands for Digital Living Network Alliance ( http://www.dlna.org/ ). They are a collection of companies with an aim to make home networking and multimedia entertainment interoperable and hassle - free. Among the members are giants like Microsoft and Sony and around 250 others. And I am happy to report this alliance seems to be working. During my so-called "free time" I keep on putting together a home entertainment network. Wrote a bit on that on my Tech Bulletins blog ( http://tech.slupik.com/2007/11/digital-home.html ). This project is still a work in progress, but from what I have assembled now it looks like the DLNA - compliant devices are really interoperable. So far I have been able to put together two main components of the system: The Infrant ReadyNAS file / streaming server . Depending how you look at it, you may consider the ReadyNAS as a heart of the system. Currently I have it equipped with four 500GB drives, yielding capacity of around 1,5TB (the fourth drive...