Wow, I feel like there’s a piece of technology no-one told me about. Seems the best use for it though is for streaming media to an Xbox360. I’m talking about “Orb” (www.orb.com, Wikipedia entry). Essentially what it is is a piece of software on your PC able to index all your media files and transcode/stream them anywhere on the internet. The software integrates well with the website where you create an account and you can then access all of your media from anywhere such as another location, a gaming console or even a mobile phone.
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As if I wasn’t feeling bad enough after watching Die Hard 4(point oh) I now come across pics of this guy’s computer room where him and his girlfriend command an entire guild of WoW characters. And following that some other very very nice multi monitor setups. I think I really should start collecting all those 17″-ers being thrown out and do something with them. Again, I’m not quite sure why but it will look cool :p
At least these people use mice: Gameslah’s 50 boxing WoW setup
Ok for the record I am VERY anti-DRM. My opinion of Vista is that it’s the first big step in entrapping everyone.
That said I’ve been playing with it a bit lately because it came on a new laptop (13.3″ Vaio with T7200, 2GB ram, 160GB hdd, etc). Now that’s some pretty spiffy hardware it gets to run on and as expected on any new PC it’s running rather smoothly. In fact I’m quite impressed by how well Sony customised it etc and everything works. Not so impressed by the bits of advertising etc seeing as it costs probably over 20k. Also not impressed by how many million services etc are running in the background.
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So I’ve just watched the new Die Hard movie which introduces itself as “Die Hard 4.0″. Funnily enough I never saw a single shiny table (10 points if you get that). Anyway, most of the movie was about haxxors haxxing the USA (’spose that counts as “the planet” for Americans). These movies pretty much always make me feel inadequate and un-hardcore.
Well since I didn’t like Ubuntu I decided to try the other “hot” linux distro, Â PCLinuxOS 2007.
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