31 Jan, 2007 in Cool Stuff, Gadgets by Chris

LG BH100 HD DVD - I want it now.

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That’s all I have to say about that. Tell me where and how much and I am all over this beast!

Link to LG BH100 HD DVD / Blu-ray hybrid player reviewed - Engadget

30 Jan, 2007 in Gadgets by Chris

A little slow posting, it’s Vista’s fault

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Last night and most likely tonight was spent getting in gear. A couple weeks ago, I finally decided to put Vista Ultimate on my main PC. This box is a 3.4g P4 with 2g of RAM. Vista went on smooth and ran pretty smooth! That wasn’t enough though, I decided to purchase a new box to be my main machine and make the machine I replaced my audio machine. Now it’s just there to control my mixing board, using skype, and playing the guitar through the mixer.

Last night was not fun. I got this new Dell XPS 410 machine with a 64bit Dual Core Processor, 2gb RAM, a dual 250g RAID set up, and more bells and whistles than I need. No, I couldn’t wait another week to order and get Vista already installed, I had to have it now. I pulled it all out of the box, cleaned up my desk, and set her up. With XP, this system had smoke going from the tires. It is that fast. I spent about an hour back and forth trying to decide if I was going to install Vista 32bit or 64bit. I finally decided on 32 bit.

I start on the installation of Vista Ultimate and immediately hit a road block. Vista would not install to the primary partition. I am banging my head convinced that its a Raid Controller driver issue. I decided to call Dell’s Tech Support. After a 30 minute wait, I got a tech. I go to take him off speakerphone and… oops, wrong button. I call back, 30 minutes more and I got another tech. After 10 minutes of discussion on how I happen to have Vista and Office Ultimate 2007 already, we get started.

The 1st thing he asked is what all was connected. I told him it was just the monitor, speakers, mouse, and keyboard. I didn’t mention my exteral USB hard drive. I forgot all about it. Well, when I disconnected the speakers to be sure, I also disconnected the hard drive. I go on for about 5 minutes explaining the trouble. When I got to the point of failure, I tell him that I am going to click to get the error message. I think you know what happens next. No trouble now… Must have been that damn USB Hard Drive. 1.5 Hours wasted.

The next 3-4 hours were spent gathering drivers, installing software, etc… I got nothing good accomplished last night. :(

Tonight, I plan to get all the audio bugs I have taken care of. I hope to “not” waste the entire night on this.

Here are a couple items I posted on Vista 2 weeks ago, more will come soon!

29 Jan, 2007 in Podcasts by Chris

Mobility Site Minute #10

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Mobility Site Minute #10 (Right Click to Download)

Show Links (links open in new window so you can continue listening while browsing):

Hey everyone, I would love to hear from you about the show! This podcast, Mobility Site Minute, is meant to be a wrap up of what is being talked about here at Mobility Site. I would like some feedback. Do you like it, is the volume ok? Let me know!

Our Show is sponsored by Cases.com, thanks to Cases.com for their support.

29 Jan, 2007 in Blogging, Commentary, Sports by Chris

The Genarlow Wilson Case

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I heard about this the other day. As I was reading my RSS feeds over a nice glass of water, I saw it again mentioned on Calacanis and Scobles blog. Jason is calling for others to let the world know how backwards Georgia is in this case. Being from Alabama, I already knew that! I know I have at least one reader in Georgia and she has kids (a few teen boys if I remember correctly). I am sure she would find this quite rediculous.

You see Genarlow Wilson has been sentanced to jail in Georgia for 10 years and will be labeled a child molestor forever. The problem is that he too was a child when he had consentual oral sex with a 15 year old. He was 17 at the time. Now he is 20 with the rest of his younger years to be spent behind bars. In addition, he’s a child molestor now.

If he stays in jail, gets out around 30 and goes about his life, he is still going to carry a public tag of Child Molestor. Do you think his new neighbors are going to give him the time to explain why he has that label? Nope, not in the south!

I am not condoning his actions of premartial sex, but come on, let’s get serious here. It happens every single day. 

A commenter on Mark Cuban’s (Dallas Mavs Owner that has brought this into the blogosphere) blog suggested that the Mavs forfeit their next game against the Atlanta Hawks in protest. I doubt that would be feasable, but as Calacanis suggests, an armband or something to show support of Genarlow. I do like the forfeit idea though, maybe Atlanta can get out with a win somehow. Yes, they could lose a forfeit. They are that bad. I am a Hawks fan! They are miserable!

Anyhow, whatever you can do to spread the word. Call the State of Georgia, tell a friend, post about it somewhere. Let’s tell them how jacked up this is.

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28 Jan, 2007 in Cool Stuff, Games by Chris

SNES HEAVEN - Buy every single SNES Game made!

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Only one picture is needed to show how awesome this Ebay Auction I read about on Engadget is…

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