So, the AppleTV. It's a mini intel Mac Mini. A mini mini. And right now I have Apache running on it and am trying to get MySQL going as well. If I get that up, I've got myself not only an entertainment device, but my web server as well. Why? [...]
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Well, today was an historic day for me at the P.O. as I was officially hired on as a PTF. For those not in the know, that means career. Before I was just a bottom of the barrel grunt worker who was temporary, over and over and over ( x 5 actually) again. [...]
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Yeah, so I've had about 5 hours now of play time with the AppleTV since last night and all I can say damn this thing rules! I took the hard drive out, voided the warranty in the process and dropped it into my portable firewire enclosure. Copied over my intel version of sshd [...]
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So, I placed the order for the AppleTV on Sunday and it shipped Monday. I checked the tracking to see where it was and it said Shenzhen, CN. All I could think was, where the hell is that? There's no state with CN for an abbreviation. Or is there? I'm [...]
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God, I was about to cry scrolling through the tour date list and couldn't find WI in there. Scrolled once, nope. Scrolled up again, nope. NOOOOOO!!! You gotta be kidding me! Okay, breath. It's gotta be in here somewhere. Scroll down again one by one… slowly. AH!! [...]
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For a few years now I've been wanting a solution to archive and play high quality mp4 streams with 5.1 audio up to HD resolutions. There was literally nothing but a HTPC option out there to do this, and I didn't really want yet another computer sitting next to the tv to do the [...]
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As soon as the Wii came out and people started hacking it, the first thing that was learned was the the controllers are insanely simple devices that can do a lot on their own. All you need is a bluetooth connection and you can use it on your computer. Soon people were showing [...]
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He sells a mean car!
Definitely NSFW with loads of language compressed into a 1 minute commercial.
Big Bill Hell's
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Anyone who has ever performed stand-up is familiar with the red light, the universal signal that warns dawdlers it's time to wrap things up. In the '80s, comics at the Hollywood Improv came up with a novel use for the light. When shining steadily, it had the conventional meaning. But if the bulb began sputtering, [...]
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