Simply, it’s standard PC, including an AMD Athlon XP 2500+, an Abit AN-7 motherboard, a cheap video card with S-Video Out, hard drives, DVD drive and three Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 TV encoding cards and one PVR-150.. My HTPC case case is a standard Antec tower case. This is not designed for the HTPC service. Tired [...]
[Continue reading…]Home Theater PC
March 5, 2007 By Leave a Comment
After running multiple video cassette recorders for years, drooling over the TiVo® advertisements, and hearing the praise heaped on TiVo by relatives, I decided to build my own version — a Home Theater PC (HTPC). Why, you might ask? Well, it goes like this: The Fun of building an HTPC. The Challenge. Flexibility. Storage space. [...]
[Continue reading…]Casino Royale Review
November 25, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Sean Connery personified James Bond, until he stretched Bond into late middle age. Timothy Dalton, well, the less said, the better. Roger Moore was a shot back to the old Bond, but just seemed to rely too much on contrivance, gadgets and visual jokes. Pierce Brosnan was a marvel in the classic Bond style, until [...]
[Continue reading…]The Hummingbird, part 3
November 7, 2006 By 3 Comments
And, a few more pictures of the hummingbird we fed after Hurricane Katrina… Tired of old antivirus softwarethat slows your PC to a crawl? VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware Try High-Performance VIPREFree for 15 daysMulti-computer DiscountsMulti-year DiscountsUnlimited Home Site Licenseavailable for all your home PC’s
[Continue reading…]The Hummingbird, part 2
November 6, 2006 By Leave a Comment
More pictures of the hummingbird we fed after Hurricane Katrina… Tired of old antivirus softwarethat slows your PC to a crawl? VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware Try High-Performance VIPREFree for 15 daysMulti-computer DiscountsMulti-year DiscountsUnlimited Home Site Licenseavailable for all your home PC’s
[Continue reading…]The Hummingbird
October 30, 2006 By 1 Comment
After Hurricane Katrina, we had a huge number of hummingbirds visit our house. Perhaps this was because we still had a feeder available. We had one problem, though. We had been remodelling and our sun porch, which previously had clear plexiglass as “windows” did not have any windows at the time. Unfortunately, the hummingbirds saw [...]
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