New hardware and cleaning

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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.

New Digs…

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*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!

Printing from iPad to Windows Printers

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For my reference (and yours if for some reason you can’t find the same articles I found), here’s how you print from an iPad to a shared Windows Printer on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Machine using Apple AirPrint and some cmd magic.:

  1. Install the app from this page
  2. Do the stuff at this page, sans the iTunes stuff
  3. Open the 2008 R2 firewall Control Panel
  4. Right click on Bonjour Service, click Advanced tab, and check all three checkmarks (Domain, Public, Private)
  5. Create a rule for the AirPrint.exe file from step 2 to match the Bonjour Service on step 4.
  6. Print from your iPad
  7. Profit.

Adventures in Video

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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 →

Netflix iPad Stall Issue

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It’s been a long time! Been busy, sorry for the absence. I’m still alive – don’t worry.

Have an iPad? On a WiFi Network? Using DD-WRT? Trying to stream Netflix and it won’t stream? It’s a DNS compatibility issue!

If you try to play Netflix titles or movies on your iPad and you have a problem where clicking on play brings you to “Preparing to view…”, the navigation bar sides down, shows you the Netflix app splash screen then instantly redirects you to the original page you were on, it’s an issue with DNSMasq in DD-WRT.

Solution: either disable DNSMasq on your DD-WRT based router, or manually code your ISP’s DNS server into your iPad WiFi settings. Even better: hard code OpenDNS or Google DNS into there (208.67.222.222 and 8.8.8.8 respectively).

It took me a month of hunting to find the solution to this. I’m reblogging the solution because the blog where I found the solution has a horrible PageRank, Inanis.net has an awesome PageRank, and maybe this will help others find the solution faster.

Original solution found at: http://jpwhitehome.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/netflix-stalls-on-ipad-problem-resolved/