A few links to wrap up your week: Minneapolis legend Bob Mould stopped by 89.3 The Current at the UBS Forum this week and read from his new autobiography, See a Little Light, and performed a few songs which you can listen to at The Current. NPR reviews his new book as well. The Foo… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Hardware
A look back at needles
Scientific American dips into it’s archives looking at an article originally published in 1919 discussing needles on the “new” phonograph: At the time of this article’s publication, July 5, 1919, the phonograph had only been a household item for 10 to 15 years. While it was still considered a novel invention, persons such as F.D…. Read more »
Boxee Box
My wife (who knows me all too well) got me a gift I’ve been coveting since it was announed at CES last year: the Boxee Box. I’ve been using Boxee on a Mac Mini hooked up to my home theater for almost two years now – and love it. Unfortunately, the Boxee Box by D-link… Read more »
The Needle Doctor is moving
The Needle Doctor, Minnesota’s premier retailer (and online retailer) of everything related to turntable hardware, is moving. After I first bought my turntable in April, I had gone on a buying spree of used records. Most of them needed cleaning and I also needed something to get the dust that would build up on my… Read more »
Six Months Without Satellite TV
It’s been six months since I cut the cable and canceled DirecTV, going over-the-air and internet only. Do I miss DirecTV? In a word, no. This past Sunday started the real test as I’m a huge (American) football fan. Living in Minnesota and being a Green Bay Packers fan, this season is the first in… Read more »
Vinyl (R)Evolution
Note: This is reposted from my main blog and seems fitting to kick off my Vinyl Music blog with. When I was 17 or18 years old, I wanted to be a DJ with a friend of mine. I grabbed all of my parents vinyl records, trucked them over to my friend’s house and then… we… Read more »
Cutting the Cable, Part 3 (or Why Customer Service Matters)
I followed through and canceled my DirecTV service today. My MythTV / Boxee setup has been running great the last couple of weeks and I kept DirecTV through yesterday just as a backup as I hosted a Super Bowl party. This all started due to extremely poor customer service from DirecTV. My high-def DVR was… Read more »
Cutting the cable
I’m an entertainment junkie. I own hundreds of music CD’s, books, movies and am an early adopter of Blu-Ray. My usual routine once my two youngest children are in bed at 8 pm is to plop down on my couch, put my notebook on my lap and use that while watching my pretty 60″ TV…. Read more »
T61 Lockups Follow-up
Thanks to zdz for posting a comment on my T61 Lockups post. He was absolutely right – it was an Intel / xorg driver issue causing the lockups. A big shout out to doniphon for updating and testing Xorg at the 20/20 Conference last week. I’m running the latest Xorg on my T61, and the… Read more »
T61 Lock-ups
My new T61 laptop is freezing, typically after 5-10 minutes of inactivity, but every once in a while I’m using it. It seems as if I’m actively using it, it won’t freeze up, but soon as I stop, within 5-10 minutes it just hard locks. I’ve used my T61 up to two hours without lock-ups,… Read more »
