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I want a super home entertainment system– DVR, multi room audio and music, media center, the works.

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

So here is my latest hunger– moving out into an apartment with my buddies that is an incredible media hub.

Like…

  • Being able to record TV and send it to any computer at any time…
  • Or send LIVE TV to any room’s computer at any time!
    • If I’m lucky, that means that we can watch multiple channels from multiple boxes with only one cable box, or high-quality decipherable stream…
  • Being able to watch internet videos on the main TV…
  • Being able to watch whatever videos were loaded onto it!
  • Being able to send DVDs across rooms!
  • Being able to remotely tell the program to download torrents and other media, keeping users separate, but all within the upload limit, and allowing remote access to the files! 8)
  • Receive Audio from the main radio station in the house..
  • And broadcast to the household radio station from any computer!
  • Even to play a role as a game server!

It’d be complex, but damn.  I think this’d be awesome.  I think I’d need a great ethernet card, some nice RAID management.. etc..

What a headache, but fun!

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Truly Interesting Post about Interactive Media versus Such Media’s Requirements

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I found in Colin Clark’s blog a mention about a Seth Godwin blog post.
The post is essentially about a chart Seth made– this chart shows the varying types of media and creations/services that we can make in our day and age.  It contrasts the media’s needs (EG: How much text, how much information, how much physical presence, how much investment) versus the media’s interactivity.  (Movies aren’t interactive, but IMs and Phonecalls are).

What’s interesting is how Seth outlined an area in the graph that highlights media that’s been successful from a financial standpoint.

Take a look at the original post and see what YOU think.

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Need to get NetGear WG111v2 running on Linux / Debian ?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Here are some helpful links I used to fix my Debian-running-a-USB-wireless-stick problem:

This thread on NDiswrapper, a way of using Windows XP drivers on Linux, helped me a lot with my NetGear WG111v2 Problem on Debian Linux..

Afterwards, this article at the Debian Wiki on how to use WIFI / Wireless utilities helped me out afterwards with my NetGear WG111v2 problem.

Anyways, Make sure to apt-get install openssh-server and configure it to your needs. Did you get IPtables, too? Should come with your package of Debian.

Me? Well, I’m fine. Just playing some indie games, drawing, etc. :)

Edit: Update as of 11/24/2009: It’s been working fine. I wanted to leave a bit more information about this.

  1. Here’s a copy of my /etc/network/interfaces file: 
    # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

# My secondary, Wireless Iface

auto wlan0
        iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wpa-ssid WirelessNetworkNameExactly
        wpa-psk password
  2. Keep in mind I got NDisWrapper installed with apt-get, got the drivers for the WG111v2. When NDisWrapper was working with the windows drivers for the WG111v2, it detected the wireless device.
  3. A GREAT idea would be to configure the router/wireless router to do a “DHCP Reservation” for each Mac Address that requests an IP Address from DHCP. this is because DHCP will change the IP address of your server in your local network once in awhile! This means that the IP address it had before may not be valid at the next time it reboots! Ergo, you should either ALWAYS find the IP address of your server from your router’s DHCP clients table page, log into the server manually and do ifconfig to find out what the IP address is, or you should set up a DHCP reservation so the IP will never change.

EDIT Mar 18 2010:

The following debian page also helped on NDISWRAPPER: http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper

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Sick of Spam, oi vey!

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

So I went and downloaded the WordPress ReCaptcha plugin.  I hope you don’t mind.

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South Park’s 12th Season Almost Over

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

To be honest, I think a lot of South Park’s 12th season episodes were hits, and got back to the core values of the series.  There were statements on how to live life without outright positions on issues (Breast Cancer Episode Ever), there were episodes that parodied the series itself (Pandemic 2: The Startling), and there were episodes that had a catchy tune or two (Elementary School Musical.)

As usual, there were the more bitter tastes of opinions in some episodes.  One was Canada on Strike with its opinion on internet media and the Writers Strike.  The other with its opinion displayed blatantly was Eek, A Penis! talking about the patriots cheating and how cheating is the “White way” to win.  Both had their funny moments, such as a penis parallelling a mouse in the latter, and many elements in the former.

A positive thing to note is that this season didn’t hang heavily upon the parody of current events as previous seasons had– they seemed to tackle lingering troubles in life (AIDS, Breast Cancer, Heavy Metal, etc.)

In any case, I’ve been a fan of Moral Orel’s final season on Adult Swim.  They tightened the writing down so their ship leaked no story at all– almost everything is deliberate and powerful.  It’s powerful to see one episode tie into another– I only wonder how they can finish the series, as it was one of [as]‘s best.

On the note of [as]‘s other series, The Xtacles (a followup to Frisky Dingo) is quite hilarious.  I think the funniest quote I’ve seen from it was,

Guy A: “He rapes people.. with another rapist!?”
Guy B: “I’d prefer to be raped with a penis.”
Guy C: “And you might just get your wish. (Continues on)”  (guy B, being talked over: “Hey! It’s not my wish!”)

Outrageous, yet hilarious.  “Rapier Ape” another witticism that will last for awhile.  Frisky Dingo has this whole ‘internal culture’ or a series of in-jokes that could spawn many more internet phenomenon.

I suppose that’s all I have for this update.  See you next time (or not :)

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