There are a lot of interesting things on the web that should be pointed out, but not enough to blog about, so, I'm using my Twitter account to link to things I find interesting. the feed is on the right side of the page, or you can go straight to it by going here:

http://www.twitter.com/nytflyr

If you see these and you like hot food, grab a bag, these arent re-branded "Fiery Habanero" chips they sold a few years ago... these are actually good!

 

A month or so ago I purchased a 1st generation, DiY TiVo. It is a refurbed unit that is missing its hard drive, I figure for 15.00 (+ shipping) what could go wrong? quite a bit actually.

Firstly, you have to format your new hard drive so the unit will understand what in the heck you want it to do. After searching the web for instructions on a fresh install, I gave up and purchased a program called InstantCake. To use it, you have to use a PC, move your CD/DVD ROM (by itself) to the primary slave position, and the drive(s) you want to bake in the secondary IDE master (slave) position. They suggest disconnecting any other drive not associated with this process.

The hard drive I originally selected was a Western Digital 320GB Caviar Blue... that was a mistake, Do not try and use this drive for an upgrade, it will not work, they don't play nice with the TiVo and will not boot. Luckily I had an extra 120GB Seagate laying around which will give me up to 120 hours of recording.

Overall, the complete system ran less than 150.00 (including the hard drive that Im using in a backup PC instead)

UPDATE: I had to make one more trip to Best Buy and grab a $10.99 cable splitter, mainly because the HD channels couldnt be tuned in using the TiVo, the TiVo is using the s-cable input on the TV now.

I like old video & computer games, recently I was introduced to Age of Empires 2 & the Conquerors expansion. before that I pulled out my Gameboy Advance SP and went game hunting, certain DOS games have been ported over, and apart from the screen size they were true to the originals.

One such purchase was Wolf 3D, after I hit the payment button, I went looking at the reviews and they were awful, I felt like I made a mistake placing the order.  Once I started playing it, I had to ask, "what is wrong with those people" of course the graphics and sound seem out of date.. its a 15 year old game! and it plays just like the 15 year old game did 15 years ago. Other ports I like are the Lost Vikings & Xevious (an old arcade game).

I dont need the latest and greatest game, or gaming rig for that matter (though mines not too shabby), when so many older games are out there to be discovered and played.

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Im in the process of clearing out my game collection of the stuff I no longer play, or never have played. the entire list is here:

 http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=9620447

Thanks for looking.

Friday @ 2:30 PM, my brand new Nokia 770 and 2 gig MMC memory chip arrived in the mail, by friday night I managed to get Doom running on the machine, but other things were not working right. Since this is a Linux powered appliance, it installs software a bit differently than Windows users (like myself) are used to. In the case of the 770 you connect to repositories, select the package you want to install and it finds the other parts of the package, if available. apparently one of the entries in my repository list was corrupt and nothing was being updated. after removing all and starting over things moved much smoother.

So here are the apps that I felt I needed:
X Terminal (for getting to the root and doing command line stuff, it was needed so I could use Busybox (below),
Busybox (so I can have telnet access to my BBS when away from the box, it isnt pretty, but for the game I would need it for, it doesnt have to be),
GPE PIM Application Suite,
Games: Doom, Nethack and Maemosweeper
and PLCreator. this last one is important if you intend to use the 770 as an MP3 player. The 770 will play one song at a time, or use a playlist, and apparently it does not like the playlist created in winamp.

Im really enjoying this contraption so far, and can see it holding my interest longer than any other gizmo ive had in the past.

I just purchased a Nokia 770 and these links looked like they could be useful.

http://nokia770.com/
mini firefox browser
Movies on the 770
pidgin (formerly GAIM)
DooM
XTerm

Had a great time, played a bit of Adventure!, Call of Cthulhu (d20) and Hollow Earth Expedition on the RPG side, and played in Demos of The Spoils CCG and Infernal Contraption by Privateer Press.

Highlights: Winning the auction for Hollow Earth Expedition RPG, the GM Screen, dice, style chips and a dinosaur tooth

Lowlights: the Con was spread all over downtown Indianapolis, with incorrect locations printed on tickets, and it seemed like most places were skimping on the AC.

Purchases: Hirst cobblestone molds, A case of Mage Knight painters edition figures (240) & a case of Mage Knight Pyramid Starters (192 figures), neither of which will be used for Mage Knight... and a few other items.

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Check out this cool face making tool!

http://flashface.ctapt.de/

 

 

a Cowboy You scored 4 Honor, 4 Justice, 12 Adventure, and 4 Individuality!

Well pardner, the thing that drives you is a sense of adventure. You're willing to play by the rules, but only so long as you've got open territory to cover and new frontiers to explore. You don't need much and you don't ask much. Strap on your six gun and wear your Stetson proud. I think you'll do just fine

Link: The Cowboy-Ninja-Pirate-Knight Test written by fluffy71 on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test