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Continue reading →: Seattle HDTV
The Furrygoat Experience: HDTV Goodness. _Hat tip to John Ludwig_ Here’s the latest listing of HDTV channels in Seattle. I watched the NBA All-star pre-game on ESPN. Wow, was that clear. Also, InHD is not bad as demo stuff. Main issue is that KOMO-4 in particular seems to have an…
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Continue reading →: Home Theater Update
Well, now that the Onkyo is back, time to get the downstairs system working and also to get the outside speakers on line. Here is what I need. Thanks also to Steve for some other choices: * “Outlaw 7100”:http://www.outlawaudio.com/products/7100.html. A very reasonable $800 for a 7 channel 100-watt per channel…
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Continue reading →: New System for the Rec Room
Outlaw 7100. Good review of the 7100. Inexpensive and they liked it.
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Continue reading →: Textile 2.0
Brad Choate: MT-Textile does that???. Wow, Brad does it again with very cool with additional commands like automatic link creators to connect to amazon, imdb and google. Nice work!
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Continue reading →: MovableType Maintenance
Finally getting around to this (and lucid enough to do it). Basically, comment spam is overwhelming all my sites. 24 of the last 25 comments were spam generated. If you’re having the same problem, here is what you have to do: # Install Movabletype Version “2.661”:http://movabletype.org. This installs a comment…
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Continue reading →: Water vs. Air cooling: Corsair Hydrocool 200 EX and Koolance EXOS
Since I’ve been descending into geekdom, might as well go all the way, the current rage is to water-cool your CPU. Since heat is the biggest enemy when overclocking, folks have been using exotic cooling to get much better performance. If you nitrogen cool your Pentium for instance, you can…
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Continue reading →: Speaker Interconnects
Well, I finally got my Onkyo TX-DS989 back from the shop. I shorted out the speaker cables and blew the amplifier sky high. Had to go back to the authorized service center. Anyway, to prevent this in the future, I’m using banana plugs for all my speaker cables. They won’t…
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Continue reading →: ASUS A7N8X-X Update
Well, I’ve gotten the new power supply and it sure has helped. Here is where I am: # System runs stably at 198MHz, but won’t pass Prime95’s validation suite. Backing down the memory to 191MHz seems to make the system super stable. I’m guessing that it is the cheap RAM…
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Continue reading →: Outlook Spam Filter
Well, I had thought that the Outlook 2003 spam filter would obviate the need for external spam filters, but either I don’t understand it or I it doesn’t work well. Basically, it doesn’t seem to work in cached mode and it seems to require you to click before it fliters…
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Continue reading →: Really Debugging a PC
Well, here’s what I’ve learned about really debugging a PC that is crashing. Script for future use: # Get a device count and estimate power supply requirements. Make sure the power supply is adequate to the job. Otherwise, go get another one. # Run memtest86+ overnight. Make sure the basic…
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