A steaming pile of...: March 2007

Monday, March 19, 2007

TV settop boxes for streaming TV from a media centre

There's going to be a ton of these and probably none of them will do what I want, but here's two:

http://netgear.com/Home/Products/Entertainment/DigitalMediaPlayers/EVA8000.aspx

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/linksys-announces-kiss-1600-network-media-player-244539.php

Not sure if they're worth getting to replace my xbox. Although they look nicer.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Oracle locks

Some useful links describing how Oracle locks work and how you can work out who is locking what, and who is blocking who:

who is blocking who: http://orafaq.com/node/854

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/concepts/lock.html

show locks for more than 2 mins: http://www.psoug.org/reference/locks.html

who is locking what: http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_locked_rows_user_locks.htm

Thursday, March 15, 2007

One day I may have ADSL2

But not any time soon. Maybe next quarter: http://www.adsl2exchanges.com.au/viewexchange.php?Exchange=SNDM

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Beatbox!

A French guy on the french version of Pop/Australian/American Idol: http://www.top10virals.com/viralvideos/french-beatbox.html

and Shlomo in a duet doing Roni Size: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_XQBb_oQg

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

greatpockets.com

Wow, what a great idea. Big pockets to stick all your gadgets in. Make sure you say "No Thanks" to get the punchline:

http://www.greatpockets.com/

Saturday, March 10, 2007

OMG: Nappy research

The mind bogglingly complex world of nappies.

Flushable nappies: The pretty US website http://www.gdiapers.com/

and the "functional" Australian website: http://www.eenee.com.au/

The ABC parenting in pictures site has some info: http://www.abc.net.au/parents/parenting_in_pictures/default.htm

Good article on how eco-friendly various types of nappies are: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2465/is_3_31/ai_73040732/pg_1

and: http://www.sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/press/2007/napp.html which has a bunch of links off to various "real" nappy websites (i.e. not disposable)

And more: http://www.spiritofnature.co.uk/acatalog/nappy_guide.html

Alantico solid wood furniture designs

Some really beautiful solid wood furniture designs. http://www.atlantico-usa.com/

E Text Editor. Textmate for Windows

Windows editor which supports Textmate command and snippets: http://www.e-texteditor.com/

Choosing a builder

A bunch of useful tips and guides to picking a builder, what to ask them, what to check and how to make sure things happen relatively smoothly.

Doujin Shmups

A quick look at the Japanese shoot-em-up scene, "Doujin Shmups". Lots of clones of old scrolling shooters.

Information about protocols and products associated with Video calling:

Overview: http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/Oct06/mobilevideo.aspx

Activity group: http://www.imtc.org/activity_groups/act_3g324m/home.asp

Dilithium networks overviews and products: http://www.dilithiumnetworks.com/technology/whitepapers.htm

The wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G-324M

Understanding the spec: http://www.commsdesign.com/design_corner/OEG20030121S0009

Radvisions tools: http://www.radvision.com/Products/Developer/Protocol/

Commodore 64 emulator links

Some emulators:

VICE, the current standard: http://www.viceteam.org/vice_toc.html

Frodo, old and doesn't appear to be maintained: http://frodo.cebix.net/

CCS64, current versions are Windows only but support multiplayer network gaming: http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/

Games:

C64 Blast collection, 340 140k zip files: http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/Emulation/C64/Roms/Blast/C64_roms_summary.htm

Gamebase 64: A list of all games with reviews: http://www.gb64.com/ current download site include ftp://ftp.elysium.pl/

More games, including most popular 300 games: http://www.c64games.com/

General sites with lots of links:

http://www.commodore.ca/default.htm

http://www.c64.org/

http://www.lemon64.com/

http://www.c64.cc/

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