Archive for April 16th, 2008

Measure a few dozen times, just to be sure

Zen and I headed down to the farm to mark the building site and to check out the wheat crop. It took the better part of 2 hours to find the right alignment of the building and stake the corners square and true. This is one of the cases where you don’t have [...]

The winner is VirtuaWin

Just a short update. I finally settled on the bits and bytes I wanted to make my Windows work machine do all it needed to do. I finally settled on the Virtual Desktop solution. I am very please by VirtuaWin. Enough said.
I made enough mistakes along the way that I opted to nuke [...]

The battle of the media devices

For Christmas I gave myself a gift of the Mvix MX-780 media device and then questioned my choice and put my name in for a Popcorn Hour A-100. These are both Linux based media players capable of true HD 1080p output over HDMI. So, if/when I ever get that mighty big flat screen, I [...]