28
Oct
The Xtreamer Cooler Has Arrived
So my Xtreamer cooler has arrived and I thought I’d take this time you tell you and upload a picture from my iphone. Will have to fit this tomorrow but hopefully this will kill some of the annoyances with it when it starts to over heat!
25
Oct
Did You Know 4.0?
I’ve posted a youtube video of this before, here, but now an updated video has been circleing the web. Still find it interesting how the times have changed and how they will change in the future.
Will the newspaper be redundent in the future? I already find when I open one I already know the main news story just from reading them off the internet…
23
Oct
Windows 7
Well I’d thought I’d get on the band wagon that is Windows 7. Its a little scary when you hear on Radio 1 that Microsoft wanted you to have a house party on the launch day and that there is a Windows 7 branded Burger King burger that would most likely decrease your life expectancy by half and also a Family Guy episode but anyway Windows 7 is here. However as you might know I’ve been using Windows 7 for a while and this post isn’t going to let you about how amazing it it, in fact I suppose this post is more an update on my placement. I just called it Windows 7 to get in with the cool kids.
I’ve nearly finished converting a website from a static html design in to a content management system called Kentico. I’ve never worked with Kentico, let alone aspx, but after about a week of scratching my head and wondering what the hell is going on I finally made progress. Its been a good learning curve and it takes me back to my web designing day. The site its self is nothing fancy the aim of this is to allow the site to be developed further so it is very much a conversion process than creating the site from scratch. Which brings me on to a little rant…
A web development company designed this site considering this I was quite shocked at how poorly this website had been built. Its seems like consistency has been thrown out the window. An example; Half way though a page the text font would change! How do people get a way from designing such rubbish quality work?
Any who it seems like a new project for me is to create a new Windows 7 domain set-up for a local company. I’ve got experience in 2003 domains so but a 2008 domain shouldn’t be too different or maybe even easier? I think not but that what research is for!
On that note I think I’ll end this rather short but slightly informing post. This weekend I’m off to Sheffield to see my sister are university
8
Oct
The Xtreamer
So I got a new gizmo a while ago. I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while. An Xtreamer, It streams video and music to the TV downstairs from the WHS. Its a good little product and works well. When it works, when it doesn’t its a little frustrating. I think last night it took 10 minutes to navigate the menus and sometimes it decides not to even play a file.
I have mine set-up on the Wireless N router (D-Link DIR-655) which doesn’t cause any problems at all. I wasn’t sure how well the wireless would work, as I don’t have the option to hook it up to a real connection, but no complaints with the wireless. One annoying point is the cooling fan inside the device. Its whinny even on the lowest of the low settings, sound a bit like a fly buzzing around. However you can turn it off but as I found out the other night after about 4 hours of streaming or being turned on its performance starts to get affected by it over heating. A new head sink add-on has just been released but still it shouldn’t really over heat.
Although when it works its a really good little device. The navigating the menus are quick but sometimes there is a little delay from the remote. I hope a firmware update maybe fixes of these issues when it arrived it needed updating so maybe another one is in the wind. I should ask google.
This is not suppose to be a rant or a review of it I’m just saying. I’ll keep this updated. I think I’ll get this heat sink and with a firmware update then maybe all these problems with go away!
8
Oct
A Few Changes
I’ve made a few back-end changes to my website hosting. You’ll never notice any of these changes but I thought they are worthy of a post. I’ve released the domain TJL-Online.net which was assigned to the account and other domains parked on top of it. I have bigger and better plans as some may say. Some links may not work but give us a shout if you find any errors.