Archive for December, 2008
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31 Dec 2008
It’s been several years since microATX motherboards became commonplace, kicking the Home Theater PC movement into high gear. While researching hardware to build a new desktop computer, I ran into an interesting question: Can it be an HTPC? The “HT” part of the quotient would require it to be able to connect to my television, which is currently in a different room than my desktop, and I want to be able to still sit down at the computer. I don’t want heavy VGA running from the machine down the hallway. So it seems like I’ve only got a couple of options:
- Run cables down the hallway, and hope M doesn’t notice. (Good luck).
- Wireless video. Half junk, half expensive vapor.
- A thin client like a Sun Ray on my desktop.
- Give up and pick either a new desktop, or an HTPC.
Right now, option 3 sounds the most promising. There are a handful of people who have talked about hooking high-end thin clients up to their TV to act as a home theater interface, but I’ve found no discussion of doing it the other way, as far as I can tell. I’ll be investigating this deeper over the next few weeks. But experimentation might be too expensive; I might just end up going for option 4.
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31 Dec 2008
"Believe it or not, that Wordpress 2.7 upgrade was pretty painless"
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31 Dec 2008
"A foot of snow and zero-degree wind chills? Looks like a New Year at home with the wife."
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30 Dec 2008
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30 Dec 2008
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30 Dec 2008
"The Boston library has finally decided that not emailing me when there's a book waiting for me is not effective."
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30 Dec 2008
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29 Dec 2008
"@mathowie That was a quick movie progression for Fiona. I would have taken it slower."
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28 Dec 2008
"The wind is making the Patriots/Bills game sort of a joke."
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26 Dec 2008(Part of) A Day in the Life of Gus
Time-lapse from 6:58am to 1:18pm. You can see me leaving in the second and third frames. I plan to do this again, but I'll only have a photo every 90 seconds, plus I'll turn off "photo preview" so the LCD doesn't turn on at all.
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26 Dec 2008
"@bradsucks May I suggest something from Wikipedia? http://tinyurl.com/7rfau7"
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26 Dec 2008
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25 Dec 2008
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23 Dec 2008
An alternative to the build-from-scratch is a Shuttle barebones kit, $299 from NewEgg for case, mobo, and power. -
23 Dec 2008
