2 Robots

At first, I thought that my brand new Mac Mini was really slow. The web browser took a while to come up, and it was pretty sluggish. i installed Firefox, and that was about the same. It felt like a Windows PC running on maybe a Pentium II. Then I realized that I’ve been running [...]

After spending a great deal of time doing my research, I decided to ditch my current PC (don’t worry — I have another one acting as a server in my closet), get a Mac Mini duo, and stick it behind my LCD TV on the wall. This is to be the ultimate MythTV front-end. I [...]

I installed the beta version of the latest Ubuntu Linux yesterday on my Thinkpad. I typically look at the current state of desktop linux every few years, and this time it has come a long way. In fact, I liked it so much, I wrote up a support page on their wiki for my laptop.

The online features of the Xbox 360 are kind of cool. Microsoft calls it “Xbox Live.” One of the community-building things it has is the ability to see what other players are up to. This works better for your friends than it does for strangers Here is my “Gamer Card.” Robot Two.

So, there’s a rediculously long story of trying to be at Best Buy for their second launch event, and them still having sold out with twice as many people waiting on line even though they knew there were no more XBox’s. I finally broke down and bought one on Ebay — I got a “core” [...]

Last night, I got off of work at 9:30, got home from the train an 10:30, and headed straight over to Wal-Mart, in order to purchase an XBox 360, which was supposed to go on sale at midnight. The first Wal-Mart I went to had only 14 units, and they had sold them all the [...]