Downtown Memphis Blog

I don’t watch much TV at all, but I do like being able to see the local news, so i know what to babble about.

As a result, i don’t have cable, mostly because I hate comcast with a fiery passion.

Since the transition, I can’t get Fox or ABC at all. Period. In the heart of downtown, with a 37″ Panasonic LCD with digital tuner and RCA flat omnidirectional antenna  sitting in the window sill. And the blinds up.

Fuck. This.

I guess I’ll have to either wait for U-Verse or get Comcast, which is slightly worse than getting AIDS.

You can find it on my review site, here.

After all of two or three days in factory form, I decided to jailbreak.

I’ll do a comprehensive update later, just some quick pics from work.

I made a dedicated page for my loopt map, you can find it HERE

You can see where I am and what I’m doing, along with pics uploaded from my phone. Pretty slick.

Firefold’s black friday deals have been leaked/released, whatever. The TV is a great deal, and they have great prices on networking and home theater cables in general.

Link

Only works in IE for some reason, I had to use IEtab in Firefox.

Edit – On thier blog now.

http://www.firefoldblog.com/?p=103

At least that’s how people are acting

Speculation is flying around about the “gPhone”, which is likely going to be announced tomorrow. It’s between this, the iphone 3g, and the treo pro for me. I can’t wait to see what the real specs are…

I didn’t bother to write a real How To, as it’s insanely simple.

Here’s how it looks when you take the bottom cover off:

Take the screws out and pull down on it to unplug it.

Swap the cage over to the new HDD by removing the 4 phillips screws on the sides.

Drop it in, slide it upwards to seat it on the connector, bolt it back down and put the cover back on.

Now you have a lot more space.

www.mesh.com

Free service from Microsoft that allows you to remote desktop to any of your computers from anywhere and use it as if you were sitting in front of it.

Useful for playing loud music while I’m at work to annoying my girlfriend who’s sleeping at my apartment.

Also useful as you can copy and paste files from the remote computer to your 5GB of online storage, or to the computer you’re on now. In other words, you can never forget a file again, as long as it’s on a PC with Mesh and an internet connection.

Here’s a screenshot of “My computer” on my home computer, as seen from the Mesh interface on my EeePC. That’s my home desktop. I even used the snipping tool on my home PC to take the screenshot, then saved it to my home desktop, clicked “copy” and pasted it to the desktop. Pretty cool stuff, especially for free.

I’ll add some screens, here’s a bunch of pics for now.

I’m gonna link all the vista drivers, take tons of pics, maybe some vids, benchmarks, etc, but I’m still working on stuff and couldn’t resist posting this comparision pic.

10″ EeePC sitting on my 17″ HP