Category Archives: TViX

Searching for a joined-up media player.

So, after 2 years of tinkering and messing about, I’ve decided to ditch the TViX. It’s been great, allowing me to pack away my DVD and CD collection and having it all available on my TV and through my hi-fi, all controlled with one remote. However, it does have a number of quirks which I …

June 11, 2009 – 11:01 pm | By tismey | Posted in HTPC, TViX | Comments (1)

FTP to TViX using Filezilla

Thanks to ‘transco’ on the TViXBox Forums for the heads-up that free, open-source FTP client Filezilla works with the FTP on the TViX boxes. Up to now I’ve been using the Terminal FTP because none of the other GUI-based clients (Transmit, Fetch, MacFusion, Cyberduck all tried) worked properly, apparently due to some oddity in the …

June 4, 2008 – 7:58 pm | By tismey | Posted in Apple, TViX | Comments (3)

NFS Manager v3.0 available for Leopard

NFS Manager v3.0 is now available to put a shiny GUI on your NFS Exports under Leopard. I haven’t tried it because my NFS Exports are all set up as detailed in this post and I’m not messing with them now!!

March 5, 2008 – 4:48 pm | By tismey | Posted in Apple, TViX | Comments (2)

NFS exports and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

My shiny new MacBook with 10.5 Leopard arrived the other day so I’ve been trying to get it all set up and working. Only problem is that, as commenter Matt point out in his comments to this post, NFS Manager hasn’t been updated yet. This post on Mac OS X Hints suggests that setting up …

December 7, 2007 – 3:39 pm | By tismey | Posted in Apple, TViX | Comments (31)