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Archive for March, 2007

Ask and you shall receive

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Sorry it took so long but here are so more pictures from the mancave and no there isn’t a shrine to Steve Jobs!!
This shot is the stairs coming down. The door is to the storage room:

Next is the the storage room with a whole bunch of crap in there:

And here we have the first area […]

MythTV redux

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

I researched whether or the not my current workstation (my old MythTV box) has enough horsepower to handle HD content as a multimedia HTPC. The answer is yes with some considerable upgrades. The old box had a 2.4 ghz Intel Celeron processor, 512 mg of memory, 250 gig HD and an Nvidia MX420 (AGP 1X) […]

CompUSA shutting down a bunch of stores

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Recently CompUSA announced it was closing a large precentage of it’s stores. Unfortunately it appears the one near my office is on the hit list. It’s a shame since it’s pretty convenient to go over there if I need something quickly. I can understand why they’re not doing well. These retail places are getting killed […]

Email clients and an HDTV capture card

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

I recently starting using Kmail as my email client on my main workstation. I’m primarily a KDE user and generally like the integration of the KDE applications. Unfortunately on my workstation Kmail has become unstable and crashes multiple times a day. Now I tend to leave my email client running all the time as my […]

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