Archive for 'Hardware' Category
What I’ve been up to…
26 October 2008Not that anyone who finds my blog will actually CARE what I’m up to, but it’s my blog and I run this dog & pony show!
My projects as of late have mostly been electronic in nature. I’ve actually had three projects on the burner:
Replacement of the capacitors on my Mortal Kombat 2 arcade [...]
Does a DVD player that outputs 480i over HDMI really need to be more than $100?
15 September 2008I mean seriously!
There is no simpler a solution than a DVD player that outputs the 480i signal decoded from the DVD to an HDMI output. There’s no processing, no deinterlacing, no scaling. Just decode it and output it. Bam! Done!
My current home theater is based around a Denon AVR-2308CI Receiver which handles all my video [...]
XBox 360 freezing while watching a DVD movie == SAD PANDA!
3 September 2008I’ve been on a minimalist kick recently regarding my home theater upgrading my receiver to an upscaling Denon AVR-2308CI receiver and then removing all components I never really use. Part of this process was eliminating a DVD player when my XBox 360 is (or at least should be!) capable of playing standard DVD movies. Sure, [...]
Samsund NV24HD — Choppy High Definiton Video?
5 July 2008I recently sold my entire DVD collection in order to buy some things I’d actually use around the house. On top of a small upgrade for my desktop computer, I also purchased a new Samsung NV24HD Point and Shoot Camera. I decided that I wanted a Point and Shoot in addition to my SLR because [...]
Does your Juniper VPN client keep disconnecting after you connect?
18 April 2008I had this issue a while back while working from home using my company laptop. Our company utilizes the Juniper VPN client software and up until recently it had been working just fine! One day while working remote my VPN connection kept closing with the error:
“The Network Connect session terminated. Do you want to reconnect? [...]
MacBook Air: First Impressions With The Solid State Drive
1 February 2008Today while on our lunch break a couple co-workers and I ventured over to our local Apple Store here in San Diego. We had seen on a few Apple related sites that the new MacBook Air had been showing up in Apple Stores so we decided we needed to take the latest laptop from Apple [...]
XBox 360 DRM Policies - Love it or Leave it
23 January 2008As I’m sure anyone with an XBox 360 knows, Microsoft had some stability issues with XBox LIVE over the Christmas Holidays and continued to have issues well into January. Even Major Nelson posted a message from Marc Whitten, General Manager of XBox LIVE discussing and apologizing for the issue.
During this period, users were unable to [...]
Apple TV: Another Internet Asshole’s Opinion
21 January 2008I recall walking through my local Apple retail store a while back while purchasing my wife’s Black MacBook. One of the products that caught my eye was a little white box plugged into an LCD TV. It was my first exposure to Apple TV.
I was looking through the features and was somewhat interested. It seemed [...]
Wireless Issues when making a VoIP call using a Linksys PAP2 and an Apple Airport Extreme Router
15 December 2007Hey Everyone!
Thought I’d post this little technical issue to my blog in hopes that someone else in the world has had the same issue I’m having right now and perhaps share their solution
I have a Linksys PAP2 VoIP adapter (Firmware version 1.00.22) plugged into an Ethernet port on my Airport Extreme (Gig-E). I [...]
Harman/Kardon Receiver Service Manuals
10 November 2007UPDATE 5/22/2008: Harman Kardon have moved or blocked access to the service manuals from their own site. I’ve mirrored these manuals to my own server. PLEASE DO NOT HOT LINK TO THESE FILES FROM YOUR OWN SITE! If you wish to link to these files, please link to this blog entry. Otherwise, I’ll be forced [...]