Posted 11/20/2009 at 02:32:56am

W00T! This is GREAT News :D

 -Now if only they did the same thing with other streaming media like over-

at Spacecast.com  where I get my SG:U fix :P  

 After all I R Proud Deafie and its nice to finally be included in the Streaming Video world.

Posted 11/18/2009 at 03:13:29am

 Have heard reports this .xpi has problems installing on FF 3.5.5

Configuration Mania 1.10.2009111101

Posted 10/30/2009 at 06:51:54am

I don't know what to think about Acer now... 

I bought a nice Gemstone Blue Aspire 4730z with Vista Home Premium pre installed not six months ago just to see how good these things are. The lappy works great with Vista Home Premium. 

Win7 rolls around so  I run the MS Upgrade Advisor thingy and I'm told its compatible except maybe for the Crystal Eye Webcam and the Cyberlink Power Director. Visiting Acer's website I went to look for the drivers and Lo and behold they're available for XP and Vista but none for Win7 in either 32 or 64 bit flavors. 

It turns out that "Win7 compatible" means "partially compatible" whereas "Win7 certified" means "100% compatible" and I probably shouldn't upgrade. When I contacted Acer Support and gave them the serial number so they could handle my request I'm told its a Revonate and I'd have to talk to them, wtf? 

Revonate is a refurbish - remanufacturer for Acer, and theres absolutely nothing on their site or a way for the common man to contact them to obtain current drivers for working machines. So my 'new' lappy I guess has been assigned EOL (End of Life) Allready.  

Now I'm hesitant to buy the 18" Gemstone 9820 with the Cine-dash cause I just know I'll be back at this point again. Even a brand new Gemstone model that could possibly come out sometime later on wouldn't be a consideration if Acer is going to use peripheral components manufacturers who won't support older models the minute Microsoft Windows's update to a newer version ffs.

I wonder what other laptop manufacturer's are going to be like in this regard. I doubt I'll buy another Acer at this point in time.  
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Posted 10/23/2009 at 08:41:23pm

Steve Jobs is a SithLord!

If this is the path Apple chooses, then my choice is to boycott ALL Apple products. They cannot force me to view ads endof! This will spell d-e-a-t-h for Apple &/or any other OS conglomerate that choses such a path. Are they suicidal or what?  My personal mandate is to block and eliminate all and any advertisement that comes accross my PC by any means neccessary. It is quite enough to see advertisements every where as it is when out in public or watching television, I do not want to see them on my PC, especially at the operating system level. Steve Jobs & Co. needs to reconsider this fatal concept as it is clear it will lead to the obsoleteness of Apple.

Can you imagine how life could be improved if we could do away with greed!

Posted 10/17/2009 at 07:00:48pm

I've been looking around to pick up a TV Tuner or a TiVO Kit for sometime, my main concern is I'm a Deaf indivual in Ontario, Canada and Closed Captioning is a MUST.  Apparently with some tuners captioning is only available in the US side of things. Media Center should support it with any card, but seems most cards are built to work only in the US even though they're 'sold' in Canada. After spending cash for a TV tuner and finding out that Media Centre won't work with it unless I'm in the US is just crushing. Aren't there any that will work with Media Centre in Canada?

Posted 06/07/2009 at 02:13:58am

Ya don't suppose these homeless people leech wifi from paying home users huh? Do they get hasseled by The Man when they do? What sorts of wifi rigs do you suppose they're using, waveguide antenna's, maybe a pringles project, or even a wokfi? I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for these guys.  Meanwhiles over at Unclyopedia the closest thing to Homeless geeks are nerds http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Homeless_nerds  its a fairly apt description if I may say so.

Posted 06/03/2009 at 09:00:30am

WTF - FTW HOMELESS WIFI GEEKS! Shopping cart wifi antenna rigs how much range and dBi do those rigs get anyways? Here in Toronto I haven't seen any pluged in homeless folk on the street. Maybe they hide all their tech at their "residences" or in a locker at the bus station? I'm beginning to wonder if theres an underground homless warwalkin, warbiking around town with wifi on bicycles since obviously they don't drive. Some undoubtedly do live out of their cars, I've just never seen one with a wokfi or a dipole antenna. Over at Uncyclopedia they seem to have this whole hominid variety pretty much pegged amazingly enough.

<a href="http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Homeless_nerds">Uncyclopedia: Homeless Nerds</a>