Today I am very, very cranky. It might be hormonal. I am fit to kick ass & I don't care from taking names, nu. At least there's a new "Enterprise" on at 20. (How do you say that, twenty-hundred hours?)
My roomie & I are deliberating on how to earn some money to live on; therefore I might be soon engaged in a home business. I got the time to spend but not the money. Wish I were a programmer; PayPal would be my lifeline.
I'm reading the Husky book on the Darwin kernel, the UNIX system Mac OSX is based on; it's the hardest reading I've done in ten years because it's solid math thinking. It's nice, though, because it resembles linguistics in some odd way. Program away, me girl! Girl nerd.
We went to Fry's today to get some stuff. I wanted to get a keychain drive very badly but have only $25 to my name so I can't really do that. I'm stuck upgrading the Old Man's hard drive the old way: upload to server, download from server. It's annoying, time-consuming & remarkably satisfying.
I was wondering about working on a serious project with my roomie beyond the work at home thing: dropping some ducats on an Xbox, hacking it with said Bunnie Huang guide or using the online guides, installing a Linux system and using it as a "front end" or user interface with which to run our television.
We'd need to bone up serious on our programming and suchlike skills to do it, but there is a whole legion of nerds out there doing this kind of homebrew TiVO - check out mythTV to see a choice example of Linux-based TiVO with support for Xbox modders.
"What?!?" you ask in astonishment. English, then: buy micro$oft's gaming platform, the Xbox. Recognise it is simply just a highly specialised PC computer designed for web access and TV output: Bunnie Huang of MIT cracked one open and reverse engineered it, and it's just your basic PC.
Now take the freeware Linux system and install. Add programming to interpret and reformat and record the cable system - legally, since it goes between the cable box and the TV, and you are paying for the cable - and you have a computer that is specialised to run your TV like a little genie. It is a TiVO with the flexibility of a regular computer and the screen speed and output that the real cable modem cannot possibly match. It is beautiful and it will "record" your shows, sans-commercials, as a large .jpeg file; you can then burn said file to disc should you wish to keep it, after massively editing and cleaning it up so it's just perfect, of course.
Amazing, utterly amazing. But hard work; I don't know if we can pull it off.
Oops, speaking of which I gotta go help my roommate, who is freaking out.
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I am currently listening to: 96.9 FM [Pirate Radio San Diego]
I am currently reading: the Husky book [O'Reilly / UNIX for Mac OSX]; "A Heart Turned East: Among the Muslims of Europe & America" [Adam Lebor]
My roomie & I are deliberating on how to earn some money to live on; therefore I might be soon engaged in a home business. I got the time to spend but not the money. Wish I were a programmer; PayPal would be my lifeline.
I'm reading the Husky book on the Darwin kernel, the UNIX system Mac OSX is based on; it's the hardest reading I've done in ten years because it's solid math thinking. It's nice, though, because it resembles linguistics in some odd way. Program away, me girl! Girl nerd.
We went to Fry's today to get some stuff. I wanted to get a keychain drive very badly but have only $25 to my name so I can't really do that. I'm stuck upgrading the Old Man's hard drive the old way: upload to server, download from server. It's annoying, time-consuming & remarkably satisfying.
I was wondering about working on a serious project with my roomie beyond the work at home thing: dropping some ducats on an Xbox, hacking it with said Bunnie Huang guide or using the online guides, installing a Linux system and using it as a "front end" or user interface with which to run our television.
We'd need to bone up serious on our programming and suchlike skills to do it, but there is a whole legion of nerds out there doing this kind of homebrew TiVO - check out mythTV to see a choice example of Linux-based TiVO with support for Xbox modders.
"What?!?" you ask in astonishment. English, then: buy micro$oft's gaming platform, the Xbox. Recognise it is simply just a highly specialised PC computer designed for web access and TV output: Bunnie Huang of MIT cracked one open and reverse engineered it, and it's just your basic PC.
Now take the freeware Linux system and install. Add programming to interpret and reformat and record the cable system - legally, since it goes between the cable box and the TV, and you are paying for the cable - and you have a computer that is specialised to run your TV like a little genie. It is a TiVO with the flexibility of a regular computer and the screen speed and output that the real cable modem cannot possibly match. It is beautiful and it will "record" your shows, sans-commercials, as a large .jpeg file; you can then burn said file to disc should you wish to keep it, after massively editing and cleaning it up so it's just perfect, of course.
Amazing, utterly amazing. But hard work; I don't know if we can pull it off.
Oops, speaking of which I gotta go help my roommate, who is freaking out.
*****************
I am currently listening to: 96.9 FM [Pirate Radio San Diego]
I am currently reading: the Husky book [O'Reilly / UNIX for Mac OSX]; "A Heart Turned East: Among the Muslims of Europe & America" [Adam Lebor]
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