The Conclusion So time has come to get down to brass tacks. How much for the ape? I kid. I’ve now been using the HTPC for a little over a week, and i’m liking it. I’m gonna try to be as non-hyping and calm as possible, and list some of the challenges and victories with […]
Read MoreThe Install Time for the install. Nothing spectacular here. I booted the thing off a USB-drive i created using unetbootin 3.93, with a Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit) iso slapped on there. There was some issues booting from the stick, because i couldn’t get to any kind of boot menu (F12 didn’t take me anywhere), so i […]
Read MoreThe build I got word from Jimm’s Pc-Store that half of my parts had arived. The rest i would buy from Verkkokauppa.com because they had it in stock. I ended up getting a 250 gig hard drive for 39 bucks, simply because the cf solution was not immediately available (not in stock), and it would […]
Read MoreI finally got off my lazy ass and ordered the parts for my HTPC. The build itself, is inspired by Anteuz’ build, which i had the pleasure of fiddling with last weekend. The build was very convincing visually, as well as performance-wise. I’ll document the entire process of building, installing and configuring on this blog. […]
Read MoreClever readers will notice the Seinfeld reference. Anyway, on to the topic. Everyone is writing about the iPad, so as not to arouse suspicion, so will I. The iPad was released a while (a week? two?) back by Apple. Using the standard hypewords “awesome”, “fantastic”, “amazing”, “fabulous” etc. Jobs hailed the device as a whole […]
Read MoreToday’s blogpost is inspired by the problem with our dear Finnish people. Or maybe it’s a global thing, humanity itself. I’m talking about a) tolerance b) being a fucking sheep. Let me present to you a problem that i’ve been having lately. VR is the state operated railway here in Finland. It operates all trains, […]
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