gaming news
After rolling my eyes one more time, I finally removed yet another gaming website’s RSS feed from my reader, leaving me now only with two total to check regularly: the… Read more »
Author Archives: steve
the empire strikes back poster
You know who has made the best movies posters evar? Star Wars. There are seriously like 12 styles for each movie (well, the originals) that just freaking rawk. I’ve been… Read more »
the motherboard of my dreams … hopefully
After much waiting and wrangling over which one to get, I have finally bought a new Mini ITX motherboard to use for my mythfrontend. I’ve been planning to get a… Read more »
gentoo + planet venus = one happy beandog
Oh, yah, I completely forgot about this one. Last week or so, Planet Gentoo and Gentoo Universe finally switched over from using Planet to Venus for producing the lovely RSS… Read more »
if it ain’t broke …
I have an old saying I like to use now and then, which has always seemed particularly relevant to Gentoo. “If it ain’t broke, tweak it.” Of course, now, I’m… Read more »
universal
For some reason, I have, by far, the worst issues with any DVDs from Universal Studios when it comes to playback. I have no idea how they author their DVDs,… Read more »
mplayer patch: -use-dir-conf option
I just made a really small patch to MPlayer for something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. MPlayer has long supported a playback option -use-filedir-conf that will include… Read more »
roku netflix player
I got a Roku Netflix player a few weeks ago, and I’ve been meaning to write a review about this thing ever since. However, the idea keeps getting pushed back,… Read more »
circuit city
Looks like Circuit City is officially going away for good. Well, poo. I really liked that store, and have been shopping there for a long, long time. Comparably, I can’t… Read more »
comcast fail
What’s wrong with this picture? And, for the record: I cleared out my phone number (it was the only populated fields) I filled out the entire form, and nothing magically… Read more »