Category Archives: Geek Stuph

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New hardware and cleaning

I have acquired a Commodore 64. No, an old one. A breadbox. Complete with a whole bunch of stuff, software, printers, accessories, etc.. I might add it to the computer museum page at some point, but I just don’t really have the attention span to do that. It works, kinda. Power supply is wonky. Going to build a custom supply out of two wall warts and some determination, then we’ll see how well it works.

About the museum: Now that I’m at the new place, I have much more room for equipment, and because it’s in the basement on a concrete floor I can acquire much heavier stuff without worrying about the house collapsing.

I’ve cleaned up the computer room/museum, too. Here’s what “clean” looks like. Trust me, it was a nightmare about 5 hours ago.

 

Computer Museum Room

This is what it looks like, August 2011, in "tidy" mode. You don't want to know what "messy" mode is.

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New Digs…

*Still Alive plays in the background…*

Yeah, still here. Been busy making a move and getting an upgrade to my Internet connection. What was once 8m/.5m is now 12m/1m, with 22m boost at the beginning.

It’s nice.

New blog theme. My i7 Theme is cool, but I wanted a change. I’m considering that project done and I’ll get finalized code out there sometime.

I’ll be back round later to make sure the website hasn’t burned down. HA!

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Adventures in Video

I’ve been working a bit with video transcoding and editing lately. It all started when I got an iPad in November. I wanted to watch my Windows 7 Media Center recorded TV Shows on the iPad in a different room. It has since blown up into a part-time hobby.

Here’s basically how it’s evolved: Continue reading