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He ate it all.. I wouldn’t eat it, I don’t like it.

Just bought 10 mini display port to DVI adapters from monoprice.com, plan on reselling em. Will probably resell them on ebay, if that doesn’t work, I’ll try craigslist. Craigslist might be better anyways, its free and no shipping fees.

Just put my Acer Aspire One on ebay. Used iSale, which I got in the macheist bundle.

From Inside Acer Aspire One

Upgraded the ram in my Acer Aspire One to 1 GB, voided the warranty doing so too. Used an old stick of ram from mac mini, upgraded that a long time ago. Just finally decided to upgrade Acer Aspire One. Touchpad no longer works, because I’m not skilled enough to connect it. Don’t care, can use external mouse. Need to replace SSD with a real hd or better SSD though. The SSD in it really sucks ass and slows it down, at least with OS X. Probably be fine in linux, but ideneb is more fun, I hear it’s against apple’s EULA, but I never read that, just clicked “accept”.

Update
Thought I got the touchpad hooked up right, might of killed the touchpad some how. Might have to buy a upper case/touchpad for aspire one on ebay. I’ll probably end up selling it after I fix it, will put default distro on it though. Might want to replace internal drive too before selling. Or maybe then I’ll keep it.

Update
Just going to sale each part by its self and as is. Changed my mind, going to sale the whole thing together as is.

The seagate drive that was in my MSI nettop 100 died, not sure why, probably has nothing to do with it falling out of my lap. Oh yeah but it has five year warranty, so its still covered, have to send it to em, before they send me a replacement, didn’t want to pay $20.

Damn thing crashed, it can’t handle to much local network traffic, otherwise it’ll crap out. At least revision A. Mom’s computer was copying an almost 4 GB file to it from linkstation, and then I was trying to play on xbox live, and got started lagging like hell, and then disconnected, went upstairs and the file transfer crapped out too. Had to reboot the POS. Won’t be buying any $40 wireless N routers again. Wouldn’t buy a linksys as their support sucks ass, if you ever have to deal with em. I had a wireless G game adapter made by em, updated firmware, and then it no longer worked, their shitty update broke it. And even if I sent it back under warranty, I doubt I’d have any luck getting a working one. The apple airport extreme might be the best wireless N router.

No point in buying a new router yet. Will just wait for her computer to finish copying the file before trying to do anything that uses a lot of bandwidth.

From Boxee Setup

From Boxee Setup

Put xubuntu and boxee on my MSI Wind Nettop 100, plays 720p perfectly fine, at least everything I tried, tv doesn’t do 1080p, does 1080i though. There’s a bug in boxee, it crashes sometimes when playing an audio file, really annoying. Oh yeah put the boxee remote app on iPod touch, and changed wireless N router to mixed mode, so I can use iPod touch with boxee. Also bought a D-Link gigabyte switch, so I can have linkstation and MSI Wind Nettop 100 connected by gigabyte speeds. That came yesterday too, and works fine. It has a rebate according to amazon, but to lazy to fill that out, don’t care about rebate.

The iPod touch version will cost $9.95, fucking bastards always charging touch users.

“Meanwhile, Apple also revealed that Bluetooth support can be activated in the 2nd generation iPod Touches. ”

Quote from macrumors.com, hmm maybe I’ll buy a new iPod touch then, that comes with 3.0. First generation doesn’t have bluetooth. Wonder if my bluetooth headset will work with it, then I can use VOIP on touch.

Another new feature is “Third-Party Accessory Apps: Allowing accessory manufacturers to create applications to interface with their hardware accessories.”, so I guess somebody could make a microphone accessory for iPod touch, and then make app that’ll work with it, probably wouldn’t be a VOIP app, maybe they’d release an SDK, so others could make apps for it.

I don’t want to buy the second generation iPod touch though, waiting for the third generation.

iTunes 8.1 likes to hang and takes a while to start music. I updated to it when it came out, good thing I have time machine, I restored iTunes, so now I’m running the older faster version of iTunes. All my music is stored on a NAS, mounted as a samba share, perhaps the new iTunes doesn’t like that. Apple should of said in change log, that it is slower for some users, and only recommend you update if you have new shuffle. You also need to restore iTunes Library, iTunes Library Extras.itdb and iTunes Library Genuis.itdb in users/Music/iTunes. Found that from apple’s forum. Guess the only fix is to downgrade.

Just bought a Studio RTA Malibu Glass Computer Desk 29 3 4 H x 46 7 8 W x 25 3 8 D Pewter from officedepot.com. My corner desk is kind of annoying, has a shelf thing on the bottom, which makes it hard to vacuum under, and will need new desk anyways, once I get an iMac.

Got MadWorld today, seemed easy at first, on third level I think, or is it the fourth place? I don’t remember, took a break. Also got No More Heroes. Its alright, kind of easy, probably because I selected the easy mode, wonder how much harder the other level is. Oh yeah man darts is fun.

FInally got my EyeTV Hybrid to work in linux, on netbook, only computer with linux on it right now, will have another one soon. Doing dmesg, said Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950, and also said 980 for the product ID, not really sure why. Finally decided to search google for “linux hauppauge wintv hvr 950″, and found these instructions. Well it found some other instructions, which had a comment to that link, that is better because you don’t need mythtv. Don’t want to install mythtv, was doing it to see if the card would work in linux.

From EyeTV Hybrid on Acer Aspire One

Acer Aspire One doesn’t have big enough screen for HD…

Just bought a MSI Wind Nettop 100 Desktop PC (1.6 GHz Intel Atom Dual Core N330 Processor, Barebone) Black from amazon.com, not sure what I’ll do with it yet. I wonder if it could record HD, probably not. Don’t even know if my USB eyetv card works in linux. Going to plug it into netbook, and see what linux sees it as. Also bought 2 GB of ram, the max it can have. Already have hard drive, have CD drives, won’t be putting any CD drives in it though. Might put xubuntu on it, or maybe mythbuntu, to see if it can handle HD. Should get it all on the 17th, free two day shipping for prime members.

Was wondering why I’ve been getting ads like the above, so I opened firefox, and that x has some javascript “javascript:nop();”, well I finally got an ad like that in firefox, except it actually displayed the ad, rather then a x, its an ad with javascript, with little arrow things to scroll through em. Looks like google either needs to update there code, or apple needs to fix Safari’s 4 javascript engine, or maybe both. Well most people that visit this site probably aren’t using Safari 4 beta, so it doesn’t really matter.

Currently I’ve tested the following distros on the acer aspire one:

Ubuntu & Xubuntu
Xubuntu is faster, both are easy to get working, just download a custom kernel from aspireonekernel.com.

Dream Linux
Currently that’s what I have on it, everything seems to work, didn’t do any tweaking. Seems somewhat slow, probably because I haven’t done any tweaking, to bad it doesn’t do it for me. Used the OEM installer, as I couldn’t see the buttons in the regular installer. I think I prefer xubuntu over this, so probably won’t tweak it. Perhaps I’ll try the recently released zenwalk linux 6.0.

Fedora 10

iMac is a better system then the mini, and well worth the extra amount. I’ll need a new desk if I want to use my other monitor though. Probably get the cheapest 24″ one, not sure though. Won’t be getting 8 GB of ram, that’s over $1,000 for just the ram… iMac’s are probably even harder then the mini to upgrade, I think I saw a guide on ifixit.com or something like that. But I won’t be opening it, maybe I’ll pay somebody in the future to upgrade it for me. Damn if you want faster processor you have to get more expensive one, wouldn’t mind a 3 GHz processor, don’t care about HD size. Maybe the $1,799 one then, almost 3 GHz, better video then the cheaper ones. Wait you can get $1,799 one with 3 GHz processor…

Update
Will probably order the $1,499 one from frys.com in May or June. I won’t be charged tax if I order from them…

Update
If you look at the design page for the iMac, you’ll notice it says “With iMac, details make all the difference. For example, because it’s made from a single sheet of aluminum, you won’t see any seams or screws except for a single compartment on the bottom that provides easy access to the memory slots.” Sweet so I can upgrade the ram in the future, when the price of 8 GB goes way down. Looked on ifixit.com, and you’ll see the memory compartment in step 4, the only step that matters to me.

Was just looking at DDR3 prices, and its cheaper then I thought, $150 from apple is way to much, you can get it cheaper from just about anywhere else. After looking at the article on macminicolo.net, it looks like I might not break it this time, maybe I should buy a putty knife too. Oh yeah if I upgrade it myself, I’ll put my faster/bigger drive in it too. I’ll just wait a while, and get it with a little faster processor, and maybe get ripped off and have them upgrade ram. Don’t like opening mini’s, pain in the ass, well unless you break it, then it doesn’t matter. My case is broken on old one too, so maybe not faster processor, just more ram.

Thanks to amazon they just released a free kindle app for the iPod touch/iPhone. Glad I didn’t ever buy a kindle, was thinking about it once, but never bought it. No need now, thanks to the free app amazon released for touch/iPhone users. Now I should see what books are available.

Finally! Apple released a new mac mini. There was a rumor a long time ago saying there would be a new one in March, looks like that one was right. Can’t wait to go to the bank later today, thinking I’ll get $599 one, and maybe add the max ram. Maybe not DDR3 is expensive… Looks like this baby could easily drive two monitors, it has mini display port, and mini DVI… But I’m probably going to give my old 19″ monitor to sister, she’s still using a giant CRT.

Mac Mini on apple.com

Update
Not buying till May or June. Don’t want to upgrade it myself, so will buy it with max ram, maybe the little better processor. Hard drive size isn’t really an issue, have 1 tb external drive and a 1 tb linkstation, though I might get a little bigger one, probably should get at least 160 GB. Hmm 160 isn’t an option, current mini has 160 GB drive, I upgraded it myself though. Damn looks like the only drives they’ll put in it are 5400 rpm, the drive I upgrade my mini to is 7200 rpm. I’ll just get the default 120 GB drive then.

Got my subwoofer today, seems to work fine. Haven’t messed with it much, had volume turned up and was playing battlefield bad company, and scared Tonka into my lap. Damn might not be able to use my subwoofer, scares dog. She doesn’t like loud sounds… Oh yeah it came with a cable, so didn’t need to order one from monoprice.com, but used the cable I bought from monoprice.com anyways.