So you think you're the badest mother****** around? Well wait till you see this. A plasma TV boasting all gold speakers and casing. If you've ever wanted to impress the neighbors, or if you're going to be featured in the next episode of MTV cribs and you wanna leave your mark, this is the living room ensemble to do the job.
View the gold TV Labels: Link to something
By: Desmond |
Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 3:58 PM | |
Thats right, using shoutcast and winamp, i put together a little radio station. Right now it's just assorted songs, mostly classic rock but if things go planned I might be able to do other things with it. I'm trying to find a way to make a Shoutcast TV station so that I can stream my Tv Tuner, but things aren't working right now. I'll be putting a link to it across the top but here is the link for it.
http://74.67.172.199:8542/index.htmlUpdate: alright so I've got the server up and running fine and dandy, but the running hours are only going to basically be 1 P.M to 7 P.M. But don't worry, I've got a second computer being built and its got an 80 gig harddrive on it so I'm gonna try to get shoutcast running on that and then I can transfer my music to that computer and I can leave that computer running all night/day because it isn't as loud and it doesn't have case lights like this computer does. So don't fret, I'll hopefully have this computer up and running shoutcast with all my music on it by the end of the first week of September. If I can get the computer and shoutcast running, but not the music, I will try to stream my local classic rock radio station WXFX-Fox Rochester (google them if you're interested, it's a pretty good station).
woo, that was a big update.
Labels: Website related
By: Desmond |
at 12:01 AM | |
If you want to request a song or something for the radio just email me at
despreston [at] gmail.com
Please make sure to use an email address that you'll have access to later because I will email you back when I plan on playing the song (I might have to acquire it first-- a.k.a download it illegally). But it won't be long when I do, like four or five minutes tops after the current song is done playing. If someone else has requested a song, I will let you know as well because it's first come, first play.
Enjoy! I'm also up for comments and suggestions as well. If you are an important person and would like to be interviewed on air, let me know and I can hook it up.
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By: Desmond |
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 4:35 PM | |
Pretty funny little campaign to get a bridge in Hungary named after Steven Colbert. He actually won the first round of the contest. If he wins it'll be funny as hell. The site's in some kind of crazy language so watch this to find out how to vote.
WatchLabels: good stuff, Link to something
By: Desmond |
at 2:10 PM | |
I just ordered these for the upcoming travel season.
There supposedly the best gloves that Sells has to offer. They're the Ultra Wraps. I'm also hoping to get a pair of Reusch XCG's for $50 (normally sell for $120, so im getting a great deal IMO). Should be a fun season.
Labels: good stuff, Rambling
By: Desmond |
at 1:51 PM | |
I just got my VNC connection to work on my pocket pc and its very cool. I can control the whole desktop and everything from the pocket pc, all I need is an internet connection. Should be fun to mess around with during school. I also plan on using the VNC connection on the school computers, I'm just gonna put my client on my USB thumbdrive. Should be fun.
By: Desmond |
Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 6:20 PM | |
If you have any of the things in the title, you should definitely check this service out. Basically you sign up, download the software, and run it in the background. It scans your system for webcams, TV tuners, videos, music, and pictures. Then you sign onto the website and you can access those files/tv tuners/webcams on any computer that has internet, as long as the software is running. It allows you to stream videos, music, pictures, the tv tuner connection, and your webcam to anywhere, its amazing. So far I've been using to stream my music around the house so that I don't have to update my MP3 player every time I download a new song. But when school starts, I plan on using the wifi at school to watch my cable tv channels (yes no cables and yet you can get streamed cable channels), and videos during school (and I've got about 500 videos recorded on my harddrive from my tuner-- great stuff). I've also experimented with the webcam function too; it makes a great survelliance system.
http://www.orb.comEven if you don't have a PDA/laptop/cell phone, check it out anyways because even if you're on another computer, you can use it.
By: Desmond |
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at 10:45 PM | |
I was reading through some articles and I found
this one about a study done about if a nuclear bomb were to explode at Long Beach, there would be around 60,000 deaths and the damages would outdo 9/11 by a longshot. Why not instead of investing money into a study like this, we use the money for security so we don't have to worry about this. I dunno know, stuff like this just doesn't make sense to me.
By: Desmond |
at 10:36 PM | |
For almost two years now I've been wanting to take the leftover parts from my upgrade a while back and make a second computer for guests to use. Well, about three weeks ago I bought the only part I actually needed, a 10gig harddrive off ebay for I think $8. It's going to be a medium computer; Athlon XP 1800+, 128mb, 10gig, Geforce 5200fx. I've got it all set up and tomorrow I'm going to worry about loading XP onto it and getting some old school games on it too (you know, Half Life 1, Counterstrike....).
As for internet, I've got a crossover cable left over from when I had my Xbox hooked up through a bridge connection on my computer to do Xbox live a couple days ago. I plan on using a bridge connection to get the internet working on this guest one. It'll be a slower connection because I'm already only getting a low connection through the wireless card, so with it being shared it's going to be even less. We'll also be able to play counterstrike and stuff on the LAN.
With the 10gig harddrive, I'm gonna let people that come over use it for IMing and browsing. They can download anything they want on it, and when they leave I'll just get rid of all the stuff they download.
By: Desmond |
Thursday, August 03, 2006 at 12:28 AM | |
I was getting bored so I surfed around and I found this one and loved it. I think its great. It'll be easy to change the colors for the seasons also.
I also picked up like five games off amazon the other day for like $28 (can't beat that) and they came yesterday. They are: Men of Valor, Tony Hawks Underground, Unreal Championship, Max Payne, and Lord of the Rings Two Towers-- all for xbox. It should be a fun couple of weeks.
I also wanted to let everyone out there to know that I got Xbox Live. So if you have a gamer tag let me know (email it to me or just post it in a comment). Mine is Evilelf2407. I've only been playing Halo 2 right now. I think I'm like level 21 or something, which isn't half bad for only four days of playing.
Alright well I gotta back to gawking at my amazingly awesome new layout, so peace.
By: Desmond |
Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 1:36 PM | |
