In this post only about six months ago I berated myself for buying an ATI-chipset graphics card for use in a Linux system. I titled that post "Why I probably will never buy ATI again...", as if I knew that I'd make the same mistake again. Sure enough... I had problems with my MythTV frontend playing particular … Continue reading I did it again: damn you ATI!
Category: Hardware
I managed to fill up the multimedia card on the N70 -- the only thing that's surprising about that event is the length of time it took me to do it. 🙂 So I went looking for ways to get photos out of the phone into iPhoto. I can't believe it took until the third page of … Continue reading Nokia sync software for Mac!
I haven't switched sides, really... but four cores for AU$330 was too much to resist. :)I'm doing the cascading hardware trick... But instead of buying the new top-end rig and finding something to do with the surplus gear, I found something new to do with my existing desktop and had to replace it. AMD's 4x4 stuff looks good, … Continue reading Sorry, AMD
They've done it to me once more, those folks at Apple. In 2003, while I was in the US for a residency trip, I fell in device-lust with the third-generation iPod. I brought one home, and I'm still using it (on its original battery, I might add, although there's a bit of a telltale bulge developing on … Continue reading iPod touch: device lust
I was on eBay not long ago and happened across a listing for the WIP330 (big brother to the WIP300) for much less than local retail. I decided to take advantage of: a) the good price, b) the current strong position of the A$ versus the US$, and c) it was within 1 hour of closing … Continue reading Linksys WIP330 – another tale of hardware woe
No I did not buy an Apple TV -- but seeing them on the shelves at the local Hardly Normal has got me thinking about the dilemma-in-the-making that is my media centre dream. It all comes down to bandwidth, or lack of it to be specific. Of the two locations at the Crossed Wires campus that ideally … Continue reading My media and Apple TV
My experiences with XBMC are still happy ones. I'm learning to live with its lockups (usually caused by me making vicious, unprovoked attacks on it by doing things like pressing buttons on the remote)... No, that's too harsh 🙂 In seriousness, I'm very impressed -- almost as impressed with it as I am with how much disk space … Continue reading More on XBMC — ‘Lets go to the movies!’
Fun for young and old! Seriously, if you've got some time to kill (and potentially an XBox to kill as well!) you can take the opportunity to stick it to ol' Bill Gates up in Redmond and hack his little console machine. Depending on the application it can be a pretty cheap way to get the … Continue reading XBox modding
Only a couple of weeks after going all gooey over SqueezeBox and SlimServer, I've found another way of doing media streaming at home. I've now joined that rebel group known as "XBox-modders", and have a machine at home now running the XBox Media Centre.XBox Media Centre requires a modded XBox to operate, though as I found … Continue reading XBox Media Centre
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