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It is extremely far from usable at this point. However, if you are looking for a full-functioning media center for your Linux installation, don’t bother with Boxee, yet.

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RecommendationsĪt this time, if you are interested in testing very unstable alpha-version software, please download and install Boxee and try it out.

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However, with the speed of Boxee, it can literally take me up to ten minutes to get back where I started (if I can ever figure out how to get back to the beginning) once I take a wrong turn. With most applications, I’d be willing to fumble around a bit to try to figure out which controls I need. It can be extremely difficult to figure out where you want to go within the program. Interface and ControlsĪlthough I find the interface very attractive, I don’t honestly find it all that usable. It also seems to respond a little slower when you actually click with the mouse rather than just hovering with the mouse and pressing the Enter button on your keyboard. It literally takes between three and ten seconds (sometimes a bit longer) for Boxee to respond when you click anywhere. At this time, Boxee is dreadfully slow (at least on Linux Mint – I can’t speak for Mac). With those two things aside, the main thing that keeps me from using Boxee is the speed at which it runs. To me, that’s annoying, but I’m sure some people would like that. You have no access to your window switcher, system menu, etc. In addition, and I realize this is also the way Windows Media Center is configured, Boxee starts fullscreen. Unfortunately, I don’t have an IR receiver on my computer, so I wasn’t able to control anything in Boxee when I first started it up. The default configuration has the mouse disabled in favor of an infrared remote. First of all, in order to use the mouse within the program, you have to manually edit the configuration file (there is apparently a way to modify the settings from the GUI, but I could not figure it out). The default settings are a little bit annoying to me. Unfortunately, however, there are still a lot of things that will need to be worked out before I could really see it becoming usable.

It’s very attractive, and seems to have a great deal of promise. So far, I have found the interface to be rather impressive. I have only delved into Boxee very superficially, as of yet. So, I went ahead and installed Linux Mint Elyssa (a post about that will be forthcoming) and then installed Boxee. Thankfully, I was planning to install Linux Mint Elyssa on my home machine, anyway, which is based on Hardy Heron. However, I did not realize that the only Linux flavor for which it’s been built, yet, is Ubuntu (technically, Gutsy Gibbon and Hardy Heron).

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I signed up for the invite knowing that it was only available for Mac and Linux. In truth, it’s actually based on XBMC (Xbox Media Center). When I applied, I received my invite within a few days.īoxee is a media player very similar to Windows Media Center. The program is currently in the alpha stage, so you will have to apply for an invite on their Web site.

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He or she has advertized the breach and offered a link to the dump on Boxee’s own forums, and has included some of Krebs’ personal information in the message:Īlthough, it seems that this info wasn’t extracted from the compromised database – HaveIBeenPwned? has incorporated the Boxee dump in its database, and it doesn’t contain Krebs’ information.īoxee, which was acquired last year by Samsung, has yet to confirm the breach, but on Tuesday password management service LastPass started warning its customers of it and urging them to update their password for their account immediately.I recently heard about a new program called Boxee. The breach and information theft was executed by a yet unknown attacker who obviously has a vendetta going against reporter Brian Krebs.

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Further, the passwords were apparently salted hashes and easily cracked according to sources,” they added. “Any message sent through their service, including ones with sensitive content, are now public. It's connected directly to the router with it's own cable. The FB is almost never used, so it's strange that it would fail at all. The back boxee connects via ethernet to a switch, then to the router. “The leak was announced on a private forum and the database information has been uploaded to a TOR service in the format of a raw SQL dump extraction totaling 792 MB and containing an impressive 192 tables,” Risk Based Security revealed on Sunday.Īpart from 172,000+ email addresses, the dump also contains the users’ encrypted passwords, dates of birth, IP addresses, full personal message history, and more. The back boxee was the original failure, so I brought the front boxee to the back and it would also reset in the same weird way. The forum database of Web TV service has been ransacked and the attacker made off with – and has subsequently made available for download – a dump containing personal and account information of over 158,000 of its users.