I've been playing a little GameTap on a free trial lately. Lots of good old standby games like Interstate 76 and GunMetal. I dunno if it's worth the money but it has been enjoyable.
We had a lovely run of power outages in the last couple of days. Left our DSL kinda botched up but it looks like they have it figured out. Only problem I had on the inside was Mrs. Rex's PC somehow decided it was 272 days in the future so nothing would authenticate and everything complained about being out of date.
Uhoh. Heroes is on...gotta run.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
Happy Birthday Mrs. Rex!
I just wanted to shout out a quick Happy Birthday! to Mrs. Rex - She keeps me sane, she keeps me safe. She's the love of my life!
Son of ROBOCOPY!
So, they finally did it! Now there's a slick GUI to create robocopy scripts! NICE!
I'm still working toward a big rack rebuild in the basement. No new hardware or machines but it's time to do some consolidation. The spare hardware has been spreading into use...
I think my biggest project so far has been the new media PC. Using my old XP workstation and an awesome little media center application called MediaPortal and my 36" tv/monitor.
MediaPortal totally kicks ass - free/open source application with a ton of good support and a growing support community that is cranking out features, functions and add-ons at an amazing rate. Unlike WindowsMCE in that it handles all kinds of formats and even records your shows in open transportable standards. It supports a goodly number of tuner cards and I've started out with a Hauppauge WinTV PVR500 dual tuner card.
There's even a server project kicking around so you can spread the video and music goodness all through the house. Thanks to some simple shares my little MediaGate is now living in the bedroom with access to the MediaPortal machines entire library.
I'm using an MS IR remote which functions in a beautiful fashion with MediaPortal. Now what I need is more hard drive space! MORE! MORE! MOOOOORE! I figure I'm tipping at least 2TB now but that's too spread out. I'm also drooling a bit over this keyboard...
So, I buy their remote, I want their keyboard, I'm running their XP OS - why don't I just run MCE? Too many hardware and format restrictions. I'm not that fond of the interface either.
As I recently said Mrs Rex and I are seriously working on moving to the South Pacific. In preparation I've been dusting off my piloting skills with MS Flight Simulator X. I've been tooling around the South Pacific mostly in a Grumman Goose but I've found the SR-71 and Space 1999 Eagle 1 work when you want to get somewhere in a hurry...like orbit. I managed to break my joystick last month. Luckily the good folks at Saitek have pushed the technology. The X-52 Flight Controller is now helping me tour Oceania.
I really can't post this infrequently - too much to talk about.
Anyway - I went through and printed out some list, like 3 feet long of the 'new features' in Vista. I've hung it on my door at work and am offering to buy lunch for anyone that can look at the list, then at the price tag and justify it.
MICROSOFT! LISTEN UP! AGAIN! Stop glomming everything into one box! Sell us a base os for $25 a seat with a browser and a start button. Sell or give away MC, MediaPlayer, OneCare, Games, Support, Office, BackOffice and all the other features you're paying royalties for in a one stop shop that gets in your face at startup.
Sigh...I could go on like this all day - but I have some work to do...
I'm still working toward a big rack rebuild in the basement. No new hardware or machines but it's time to do some consolidation. The spare hardware has been spreading into use...
I think my biggest project so far has been the new media PC. Using my old XP workstation and an awesome little media center application called MediaPortal and my 36" tv/monitor.
MediaPortal totally kicks ass - free/open source application with a ton of good support and a growing support community that is cranking out features, functions and add-ons at an amazing rate. Unlike WindowsMCE in that it handles all kinds of formats and even records your shows in open transportable standards. It supports a goodly number of tuner cards and I've started out with a Hauppauge WinTV PVR500 dual tuner card.
There's even a server project kicking around so you can spread the video and music goodness all through the house. Thanks to some simple shares my little MediaGate is now living in the bedroom with access to the MediaPortal machines entire library.
I'm using an MS IR remote which functions in a beautiful fashion with MediaPortal. Now what I need is more hard drive space! MORE! MORE! MOOOOORE! I figure I'm tipping at least 2TB now but that's too spread out. I'm also drooling a bit over this keyboard...
So, I buy their remote, I want their keyboard, I'm running their XP OS - why don't I just run MCE? Too many hardware and format restrictions. I'm not that fond of the interface either.
As I recently said Mrs Rex and I are seriously working on moving to the South Pacific. In preparation I've been dusting off my piloting skills with MS Flight Simulator X. I've been tooling around the South Pacific mostly in a Grumman Goose but I've found the SR-71 and Space 1999 Eagle 1 work when you want to get somewhere in a hurry...like orbit. I managed to break my joystick last month. Luckily the good folks at Saitek have pushed the technology. The X-52 Flight Controller is now helping me tour Oceania.
I really can't post this infrequently - too much to talk about.
Anyway - I went through and printed out some list, like 3 feet long of the 'new features' in Vista. I've hung it on my door at work and am offering to buy lunch for anyone that can look at the list, then at the price tag and justify it.
MICROSOFT! LISTEN UP! AGAIN! Stop glomming everything into one box! Sell us a base os for $25 a seat with a browser and a start button. Sell or give away MC, MediaPlayer, OneCare, Games, Support, Office, BackOffice and all the other features you're paying royalties for in a one stop shop that gets in your face at startup.
Sigh...I could go on like this all day - but I have some work to do...
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