Yes choob, exactly what i was expecting.

Not what I was expecting

Not sure if i want to click that link or not

In the shoutbox I say Lyetta say something, refreshed and it said it was you who said it so i refreshed again and it said lyetta said it. Thought it was just some nodebb issue.

lmao. Is this why i saw choob as lyetta earlier?

It’s been emotional.

It seems we lost the logo thread from before.

Do you guys have any logo ideas for us?
I have a couple but i’m not to sure how I would go about making them. I will have to wip out the old photoshop and see what I can do.

I have a couple not so good ones and one from @Leo which I will post later as they are on my home PC.

Something like but with the correct colours for our forum and a letter B instead of the weird bat thing. No gradient obviously :P
Or something similar to the new FaceBook icons.

If this series is anything like the book it has great potential. I’m quite looking forward to it.

I have my Jon Snow hair and beard ready to be dazzled.

Does anyone have a Chromecast?

I started to use Netflix over the weekend, I don’t see why I didn’t start using it sooner. I have a “Smart” TV and because it is supposed to be smart I presumed there would be a Netflix app available on it. My TV is too old to have a Netflix app according to Samsung even though it has Youtube, BBC iPlayer and even a RightMove app. I had to dust off my PS3 and use that to play Netflix, this also solved the problem of networking up my TV.

The main problem in my house is the networking, my TV has only LAN, my Raspberry Pi is only LAN and I don’t have a wireless adapter for it, and the TV in the living room has no network capability. When I want to use a different room to watch anything I usually have to FTP whatever i want to my RPi, unplug it all, take it to the other room and plug it all in. This takes time and effort, in this day and age it seems a bit medieval.

I saw Googles advert on http://google.co.uk today for their Chromecast device and it seems to solve all my issues. It’s wireless, plugs straight into HDMI port and it can stream Netflix, youtube and I have read that it can stream UPNP from other devices connected on the same network. This means I can just unplug it from one TV and plug it straight into another without the hassle of all the leads, HDD and power for my RPi.
I can still keep my RPi as an XBMC device and use that for my network streaming, I can just leave it switched on and connected up to my router. The only issue I can see with this is streaming 1080p content over wireless. It may not be able to handle it.

What are your thoughts on this setup and the Chromecast device?

Chromecast

The perks if not having to be up early eh @President_Choob. I don’t have Sky so I’ll either stream it or torrent it.

It sucks that decent content like this is unavailable through one of the top providers in the UK. It’s no wonder people resort to piracy.

I’m sure you’d have an hour or two to spare from all those days.

Game of Thrones season 4 is coming!

I’m on the market for a new monitor too, anyone have any ideas?

Nest launched in the UK this week.
I seriously considered buying one for my parents house. After reading the latest news article and issues with it I think it was a good idea that I didn’t.

Hi-tech fire alarm in safety halt http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26879987

The worrying fact for me is that they have remote access to a device in your house that controls your heating. Allowing them to turn off certain options.

I don’t know the specifics of how they do it and I hope it would just be an automatic update. Who knows what someone could do if they managed to get access to this device via some built in remote access protocol.

Now @leo is uploading some videos I think it might be best to have some sort of dedicated page where he can submit his own links and they will appear on a separate page. Instead of having them all in a thread.

Do you think this would be something a plugin could and should do or do you think a simple html page would suffice? I know bootstrap will be useful with the layout for the page; I have a few ideas on how i would like it set out.

@Maverick hmmm It showed up for me and it shows up now when I log out. Must be a cache issue. Does it work now?

I’ll try and get something some type of dedicated page set up for you.
I was thinking about categories for different games and then in that category you can have your series.

It will look better than just posting it in the forum.

Here is a cheat sheet to help those of you who do not know how to use markdown.

Headers

# H1
## H2
### H3
#### H4
##### H5
###### H6

Alternatively, for H1 and H2, an underline-ish style:

Alt-H1
======

Alt-H2
------

H1

H2

H3

H4

H5

H6

Alternatively, for H1 and H2, an underline-ish style:

Alt-H1

Alt-H2

Emphasis

Emphasis, aka italics, with *asterisks* or _underscores_.

Strong emphasis, aka bold, with **asterisks** or __underscores__.

Combined emphasis with **asterisks and _underscores_**.

Strikethrough uses two tildes. ~~Scratch this.~~

Emphasis, aka italics, with asterisks or underscores.

Strong emphasis, aka bold, with asterisks or underscores.

Combined emphasis with asterisks and underscores.

Strikethrough uses two tildes. Scratch this.

Lists

(In this example, leading and trailing spaces are shown with with dots: ⋅)

1. First ordered list item
2. Another item
⋅⋅* Unordered sub-list. 
1. Actual numbers don't matter, just that it's a number
⋅⋅1. Ordered sub-list
4. And another item.

⋅⋅⋅You can have properly indented paragraphs within list items. Notice the blank line above, and the leading spaces (at least one, but we'll use three here to also align the raw Markdown).

⋅⋅⋅To have a line break without a paragraph, you will need to use two trailing spaces.⋅⋅
⋅⋅⋅Note that this line is separate, but within the same paragraph.⋅⋅
⋅⋅⋅(This is contrary to the typical GFM line break behaviour, where trailing spaces are not required.)

* Unordered list can use asterisks
- Or minuses
+ Or pluses

1. First ordered list item
2. Another item

• Unordered sub-list.

1. Actual numbers don’t matter, just that it’s a number

2. Ordered sub-list

3. And another item.

   You can have properly indented paragraphs within list items. Notice the blank line above, and the leading spaces (at least one, but we’ll use three here to also align the raw Markdown).

   To have a line break without a paragraph, you will need to use two trailing spaces.
   Note that this line is separate, but within the same paragraph.
   (This is contrary to the typical GFM line break behaviour, where trailing spaces are not required.)

• Unordered list can use asterisks

• Or minuses

• Or pluses

Links

There are two ways to create links.

[I'm an inline-style link](https://www.google.com)

[I'm an inline-style link with title](https://www.google.com "Google's Homepage")

[I'm a reference-style link][Arbitrary case-insensitive reference text]

[I'm a relative reference to a repository file](../blob/master/LICENSE)

[You can use numbers for reference-style link definitions][1]

Or leave it empty and use the [link text itself]

Some text to show that the reference links can follow later.

[arbitrary case-insensitive reference text]: https://www.mozilla.org
[1]: http://slashdot.org
[link text itself]: http://www.reddit.com

I’m an inline-style link

I’m an inline-style link with title

I’m a reference-style link

I’m a relative reference to a repository file

You can use numbers for reference-style link definitions

Or leave it empty and use the link text itself

Some text to show that the reference links can follow later.

Images

Here's our logo (hover to see the title text):

Inline-style: 
![alt text](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/raw/master/src/common/images/icon48.png "Logo Title Text 1")

Reference-style: 
![alt text][logo]

[logo]: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/raw/master/src/common/images/icon48.png "Logo Title Text 2"

Here’s our logo (hover to see the title text):

Inline-style:

Reference-style:

Code and Syntax Highlighting

Code blocks are part of the Markdown spec, but syntax highlighting isn’t. However, many renderers – like Github’s and Markdown Here – support syntax highlighting. Which languages are supported and how those language names should be written will vary from renderer to renderer. Markdown Here supports highlighting for dozens of languages (and not-really-languages, like diffs and HTTP headers); to see the complete list, and how to write the language names, see the highlight.js demo page.

Inline `code` has `back-ticks around` it.

Inline code has back-ticks around it.

Blocks of code are either fenced by lines with three back-ticks <code>```</code>, or are indented with four spaces. I recommend only using the fenced code blocks – they’re easier and only they support syntax highlighting.

<pre lang=“no-highlight”><code>```javascript
var s = “JavaScript syntax highlighting”;
alert(s);

 
```python
s = "Python syntax highlighting"
print s

No language indicated, so no syntax highlighting. 
But let's throw in a <b>tag</b>.

</code></pre>

var s = "JavaScript syntax highlighting";
alert(s);

s = "Python syntax highlighting"
print s

No language indicated, so no syntax highlighting in Markdown Here (varies on Github). 
But let's throw in a <b>tag</b>.

Tables

Tables aren’t part of the core Markdown spec, but they are part of GFM and Markdown Here supports them. They are an easy way of adding tables to your email – a task that would otherwise require copy-pasting from another application.

Colons can be used to align columns.

| Tables        | Are           | Cool  |
| ------------- |:-------------:| -----:|
| col 3 is      | right-aligned | $1600 |
| col 2 is      | centered      |   $12 |
| zebra stripes | are neat      |    $1 |

The outer pipes (|) are optional, and you don't need to make the raw Markdown line up prettily. You can also use inline Markdown.

Markdown | Less | Pretty
--- | --- | ---
*Still* | `renders` | **nicely**
1 | 2 | 3

Colons can be used to align columns.

Tables	Are	Cool
col 3 is	right-aligned	$1600
col 2 is	centered	$12
zebra stripes	are neat	$1
The outer pipes (	) are optional, and you don’t need to make the raw Markdown line up prettily. You can also use inline Markdown.
Markdown	Less	Pretty
—	—	—
Still	renders	nicely
1	2	3

Blockquotes

> Blockquotes are very handy in email to emulate reply text.
> This line is part of the same quote.

Quote break.

> This is a very long line that will still be quoted properly when it wraps. Oh boy let's keep writing to make sure this is long enough to actually wrap for everyone. Oh, you can *put* **Markdown** into a blockquote. 

Blockquotes are very handy in email to emulate reply text.
This line is part of the same quote.

Quote break.

This is a very long line that will still be quoted properly when it wraps. Oh boy let’s keep writing to make sure this is long enough to actually wrap for everyone. Oh, you can put Markdown into a blockquote.

Inline HTML

You can also use raw HTML in your Markdown, and it’ll mostly work pretty well.

<dl>
  <dt>Definition list</dt>
  <dd>Is something people use sometimes.</dd>

  <dt>Markdown in HTML</dt>
  <dd>Does *not* work **very** well. Use HTML <em>tags</em>.</dd>
</dl>

<dl>
<dt>Definition list</dt>
<dd>Is something people use sometimes.</dd>

<dt>Markdown in HTML</dt>
<dd>Does not work very well. Use HTML <em>tags</em>.</dd>
</dl>

Horizontal Rule

Three or more...

---

Hyphens

***

Asterisks

___

Underscores

Three or more…

---

Hyphens

---

Asterisks

---

Underscores

Line Breaks

My basic recommendation for learning how line breaks work is to experiment and discover – hit <Enter> once (i.e., insert one newline), then hit it twice (i.e., insert two newlines), see what happens. You’ll soon learn to get what you want. “Markdown Toggle” is your friend.

Here are some things to try out:

Here's a line for us to start with.

This line is separated from the one above by two newlines, so it will be a *separate paragraph*.

This line is also a separate paragraph, but...
This line is only separated by a single newline, so it's a separate line in the *same paragraph*.

Here’s a line for us to start with.

This line is separated from the one above by two newlines, so it will be a separate paragraph.

This line is also begins a separate paragraph, but…
This line is only separated by a single newline, so it’s a separate line in the same paragraph.

(Technical note: Markdown Here uses GFM line breaks, so there’s no need to use MD’s two-space line breaks.)

Source: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet

Until you realise they are actually reading their text messages and not checking the time. You’ll end up feeling the same way.

Shoutbox is back, clear your caches if you can’t see it.