TechTalk

I just ordered a new FoxBoard, what is a FoxBoard, its awesome! Let me explain.
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I am seriously getting frustrated, with this IR Transmitter, this is a vital part of my build and it is getting me under! I have gotten the PVR150’s IR Blaster to work, well as mentioned it blinks and it does appear to transmit when commanded to, but my DSTV decoder is not working!! I tried loads of scripts and still nothing, I used mark’s send_power_new, and it ran for about 10mins, blinking away as it should but still nothing, no response from the decoder…

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Yet another late night for me, I have most of the software sorted out now, and my setup is running semi-usable. I got the TV guide working and integrated, it works great, I can see what is showing when with synopsis and some other meta-data and I can even schedule recordings from a web interface and afterwords download or stream it, I don’t have the streaming working yet, but the functionality is there. My next mission which took up most of last night was, trying to get the IR Blaster, aka transmitter working.

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Wow, what a weekend, I went to watch The Dark Knight on iMax and it was great, watch the rugby had a few drinks, and continued with my HTPC build. Headaches galore from hangovers and head-bashing caused by struggling into the wee hours of the night! But I have made some progress.

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Saw this today and thought it was brilliant!! Modifying hardware to play tunes!
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The Wii Fit, was launched recently. It is the latest offering in the Wii range from Nintendo. The fit adds a new control device to the Wii platform in the form of a balance board, which looks like a large bathroom scale. You stand on it and control movement by moving your body. Really fun and quite a workout. Ever Wondered what would happen if you could combine this with a pc and control applications using it, well wonder no more. Fly around the earth using the Wii fit board and Google Earth!!
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I bought myself a new LCD to replace the LG 20″ I had for about a month. I only used it for 10days… There was a problem with the backlight driver on the LG, upon doing some further research I discovered it was a common problem with that specific model. The LG I had was a 204WT-BF 20.1″ Wide. I had it credited and opted for something different, in fact I got a totally different brand. I decided to go for the 22″ Samsung SyncMaster 2243BWX Wide Screen LCD.
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My mother and I, had a very interesting discussion the other day, I tried to explain the benefits of being on a wireless network…
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Nvidia wants to buy Ageia, now for those of you who don’t know, Ageia is the company behind PhysX, a physics processing chip. I think the whole PPU (physics processing unit) thing is just hype I have seen no “real” enhancement of any game’s look or feel. So why would NVidia believe that this would be of benefit to any one? Well only time will tell.

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Yes, I am still waiting to receive the psp remote serial adapters I order from Hong Kong. The moment Ireceive these I will be able to complete my ps/2 keyboard to PSP interface. I hope to receive them before the end of the month…