I’ve been looking for one for months, and finally ran across an Atari Flashback 2 unit at Wal-Mart tonight. Now I just need to get a pair of RCA female-to-female adapters so I can plug it into my tiny LCD display…
Amy carved us a pumpkin tonight.
IT WILL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL.
You wait and watch GOD WILL PUNISH YOU.
They realize that some things are more important than selling computers.
Some people are really too picky about where their coffee comes from.
It’s been a rough and busy couple of weeks. We had a houseguest for a few days, then I got sick again, and while being sick, pulled a rib/chest muscle while coughing. Not fun at all.
On the good front, the kitchen in the Austin house should be complete this week thanks to a good friend. After that it only lacks carpet, tile, and a good cleaning, and we’ll be ready to be rid of the place and get rid of our last ties to the town.
Other than that, I’ve been busy at work, and thinking about how I want to replace our current (crappy) home security system with something I build myself out of X10 gear. Anybody got a box of X10 stuff in a closet they want to get rid of?
One of my photographs has been featured in the “Tales from the Blog” section of MAKE Magazine, Volume 04!
Update: They FedExed me a copy, and it’s on page 180. Here’s a screenshot from the digital edition.
The 40G hard drive in our ancient Hughes HDVR2 DirecTiVo S2 unit finally died a couple of days ago, and wouldn’t finish (after more than 24 hours) the “CLear and Delete Everything” stage. So, I decided to take the plunge.
- 120G Maxtor ATA100 (8M cache) HD from CompUSA
- Linksys USB200M (v1.1) USB to 10/100baseT Ethernet adapter from CompUSA
- InstantCake and PTVnet installer CDs from PTVUpgrade
- 25 feet of Ethernet cable from Radio Shack
- TiVoTool software on my Macintosh
After everything was properly mixed, baked, and served, I now have a 109-hour DirecTiVo Series 2 running the 6.2 software, connected to the network with telnet, FTP, and TiVoWebPlus enabled. Once a show is recorded, I can extract it to a DivX or MPEG file on my Macintosh with a single click and then watch it or save it to DVD.
Total cost: about $225. I should have done this ages ago.
Jonathan Coulton does the best cover of “Baby Got Back” that I’ve ever heard.
