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2 to check out — Amahi Linux Home Server, NASLite-2. Amahi is a full featured thing with shared calendars, websites, etc. NASLite is just a file share. ... Read more..Saturday, November 24th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
OK I have a problem. I am trying to set up two Tivo boxes in one room. Unfortunately they both respond to either remote, this is bad. ... Read more..Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with my music lately. Re-ripping everything I own in lossless format, and also trying a bunch of new stuff via lala. ... Read more..Tuesday, October 18th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
At least that is what I get out of this report that thomas hawk links to. Which jives with my own experience, my cablecard has been unreliable as hell. Read more..Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’m sure I’ll get one of both, but I have to agree — I have to have HD downloads or I won’t bother with the video service. And I don’t ... Read more..Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Man wish I lived in Keller TX and could try out Verizon’s Fiber TV service. Wonder when Qwest will get its act together, if ever. And Comcast, well, their HD ... Read more..Thursday, June 2nd, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The hype sucked me, I got a Dyson Ball. I have to say, this thing is seriously cool. It really does have great suckage. Super easy to ... Read more..Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’ve never gotten around to redoing my home phone system to be all-IP but still have a deep interest. Here’s a couple more things to consider when the project ... Read more..Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Lots of posts recently as people realize that we aren’t going to see cable/satellite HD feeds into MCE machines for a long time — No CableCARD for Windows Media Center ... Read more..Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Boy Google has become pretty polluted on the topic of home networking, many of the top pages are thin bags of links, clearly just thrown together to generate google hits ... Read more..Sunday, May 1st, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Install Tiger on Mac Mini. painless. Rip latest CD purchases. Update ipods Install and tune surround sound system in game room download last 5 alias episodes using bitcomet. (lest you think i ... Read more..Monday, April 4th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Centerstage status. I really need to get the alpha running on my mac mini. Rich has discovered cable cards but let me tell you rich, it is a PITA to get ... Read more..Monday, March 21st, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I am certainly on the bleeding edge here — but in the next 5-10 years home cooling is going to get more complicated than it is today. I’ve got 4 pcs, ... Read more..Sunday, March 20th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’ve given up on comcast fixing their IP lease time issues, I am still seeing very short lease times a week+ later. I have found that my old sonicwall firewall was ... Read more..Sunday, March 13th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
OK in the last four days Comcast has cut my IP address lease times down to 2 hours. At at the end of that two hours there are often ... Read more..Thursday, February 10th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Finally feeling good enough to start tinkering again, and to blog about it. I’m continuing my odyssey to attach every piece of technology I can to my sharp aquous beast of ... Read more..Thursday, January 27th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
First, read yesterday’s (1/27/05) front page WSJ article on the struggle between comcast and the tv networks/producers to deliver on-demand versions of popular programs. Comcast wants to screw the ... Read more..Wednesday, January 26th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Today’s adventure — getting a cablecard from comcast. As anyone knows, their website is quite silent on how to order a cablecard. If you call them and ask ... Read more..Monday, January 24th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’ve yet to move my house over to a full voip install but still collecting lots of interesting links: Pulver launches Bellster — now driving termination costs for calls to 0. ... Read more..Monday, January 24th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
To take full advantage of the Network Magic beta release (i’m on the board), I decided to upgrade my router/firewall from a sonicwall box I’ve had for 3-4 years to ... Read more..Monday, December 6th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Windley’s tutorial on creating podcasts Satellite iPod rumors Rich and I are having a running discussion about the iPod and Apple’s ability to continue to dominate this business. Certainly the development ... Read more..Monday, December 6th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
More on digital camera file formats than you wanted to know. Hugely helpful to understand pros and cons of RAW, TIFF, and various levels of JPEG. Genesis joypad. Old ... Read more..Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Look at my choices for TV watching: Akimbo service now available for MCE boxes, and Akimbo itself aggregates a lot of content. How to stick rss and bittorrent together. Great tutorial ... Read more..Friday, November 19th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Via Furrygoat, a MAME emulator for MCE. Seems like MCE could become an interesting platform. A review of BeyondTV in case MCE isn’t your cup of tea. My bet ... Read more..