by Chris | Jun 13, 2009 | Blog
I went down to 4 Kings to watch game seven of the Stanley Cup final. We picked up one of the booths and got them to crank the sound. It was very exciting game but I was sure biting my nails through the third. Detroit managed to bring it within one in the third but...
by Chris | May 27, 2009 | Blog
Some of you may know that I hacked my Apple TV to run Ubuntu 9.04 on it to turn it into a media centre. I sorted out the driver issues, got the network speeds up, got digital surround sound to work, but it all wasn’t enough. The computer started to get bogged down...
by Chris | May 24, 2009 | Blog
Tonight I went to a quiz night down at Molly Malone’s. We entered as the Purple Perverts again, I’m not sure where the name came from but I’m sure Laura had a lot to do with it. For the second week in a row we won 1st place and a $100 bar tab for...
by Chris | May 13, 2009 | Blog
Yesterday I finally succeeded in running Ubuntu 9 on my AppleTV. I used the tools and guides from the atv-bootloader project to solve this problem. I now have a shiny Linux media centre computer using the HDMI output, it looks nice. I certainly had a few problems...
by Chris | May 3, 2009 | Blog
I have finally got that laptop sorted out. It took a lot longer than I thought it would but I got there in the end. The laptop now runs better than ever and I got everything installed without any of the crapware from Acer. I’m so relieved I don’t have to...
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