A curious occurrence...
After my netbook hung this afternoon, I shut it down and then restarted it, but after Windows finished starting up, the keyboard refused to function properly. I could type inside of emacs with no problem, but when I tried to type something into the URL/search field in Chrome, the best I could hope for was a drop down menu when I typed the letter 'e'.
I rebooted again, and the problem persisted.
It then occurred to me that somehow, in all the excitement of Windows hanging, my keyboard had been left in some strange state.
It had been.
But it took me about a half hour to work through the exercise.
* * * In other words, the luster is fading from the Boxee Box. Some things it does very well. But increasingly, I keep running into performance that just seems to be to be at the "alpha" level.
For example, I tried playing the end-of-season episode of Castle that aired last night from my iPad using Airtime, and the best result I could get was sound, but no picture, on the television hooked to the Boxee Box.
And then earlier in the day, it turned out that a promising source of content—LiveStation, if memory serves—presents the viewer with a screen that has a "play" icon in the middle, except there's no way to click on the icon using the Boxee Box remote. There also does not seem to be any way to configure the choices offered, which apparently means that—assuming the problem with the "play" icon gets ironed out—I'll have to repeatedly wade through quite a number of choices that I have no interest in to get to what I do want to see.
As a long-time techie and early adopter, I have a lot longer "fuse" than, say Galina, when it comes to living with less-than-perfect execution. However, my experience over the past couple of days has me really thinking seriously of putting this product back in its box and sending it back for a refund.
And so it goes...
I rebooted again, and the problem persisted.
It then occurred to me that somehow, in all the excitement of Windows hanging, my keyboard had been left in some strange state.
It had been.
But it took me about a half hour to work through the exercise.
For example, I tried playing the end-of-season episode of Castle that aired last night from my iPad using Airtime, and the best result I could get was sound, but no picture, on the television hooked to the Boxee Box.
And then earlier in the day, it turned out that a promising source of content—LiveStation, if memory serves—presents the viewer with a screen that has a "play" icon in the middle, except there's no way to click on the icon using the Boxee Box remote. There also does not seem to be any way to configure the choices offered, which apparently means that—assuming the problem with the "play" icon gets ironed out—I'll have to repeatedly wade through quite a number of choices that I have no interest in to get to what I do want to see.
As a long-time techie and early adopter, I have a lot longer "fuse" than, say Galina, when it comes to living with less-than-perfect execution. However, my experience over the past couple of days has me really thinking seriously of putting this product back in its box and sending it back for a refund.
And so it goes...