Reading zen's journal

I probably should post this in hardware...perhaps I'll post an official link over to the pruduct, so that you readers can get a much better explanation as to what this little gem is, but suffice to say, for the time being, that my new MediaGate 35, by AL Tech (

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is a multimedia disk drive(enclosure). It interfaces digitally via USB or network capacity. All other ports are out or thru-puts (optical in.)

I'm trying not to get too technical, there's other forums for that. It is, however, hard to talk about this cute thing, without being somewhat technical. I do know to steer clear of the networking capabilities...definitely geek material...

Its primary task is to play media (pictures, video, music) into analog and digital a/v. It has a remote. It has an adaptor for household current (no batts.), and a USB.
It has great potential.

Part of its problem is the poor programming of the bios. I'm wondering how much work is involved in hacking one oif these things...
I wonder if they'd be gracious with the source code.
So then I started thinking about all the Linux freeks over here, and started thinking about how much some of your clowns really know about that shit...it's kinda scarey.
<play us a scary one David {I'll have to tell you guys about David Gedge [formerly of The Wedding Present] play at Conn College at Halloween; and I of course asked David in a mock tutor style to " Daa-Vid' plai uus a scah-rey wun,"
A "wh/Ut? " He replied in his Cockney back, never understanding what on the face of the planet I was talking about...
well, uh, where was i?
Ummm, Perhaps someone might build me a scary bios in liux that could take full advantage of the full ability of this...basically it needs to have a better display when it's playing on the television at NTSC.

The thing is, I would be willing to pay to have someone do this. I would GLADLY buy that person one of these absolute gems if he/she could make the thing giddy-up and go, go, go.

So, yeah, that's what I've been up to.
This was my birthday present from my step-mom.
My dad thought clothes would have been much better.
What a clown. ...always first with queer jokes like that...

So with that said, I'm going to sign-off here, disembark onto the shores of a dirrerent landscape. Those driven by the engine of Geek (factor), I sail for bluer depths, at nigh unto 12:46 stars in the night sky...
gotta go.
pox
zen

I'll bet that just took 5 years off my life--but GODDAMM if it wasn't worth every second

This post was edited by zen on Oct 18, 2006.