Randomly blithering platitudes unto the heavens
After all the hubbub a few days ago about “OMG, I’m gonna buy/build a media center PC!”, I finally realized that if I tweaked the settings on my wife’s slightly decrepit laptop, it would happily be the hub of that operation. There are a few kinks yet to be worked out with this system, but thus far it’s working…kinda okay. As Flack pointed out, streaming is not gonna happen over a wireless network, especially not one with as much activity as mine sees at any given moment, so video files have to be copied to the laptop’s hard drive…which takes about as much time. It’s not quite the instant access thing I was envisioning – this is more like having to prepare food that’ll take an hour to cook. Probably still going to put Nero on there though – it’s just my favorite video app for a variety of reasons. And I think we’ll still be wanting, at the very least, an IR add-on mouse. As it is right now, if you even so much as need to pause the thing, you virtually have to hug the entertainment center to reach the laptop to do that. The running joke around the house is that I’m the most reliable remote control that my wife has, but for now, that’ll do – I remember some saying about beggars and choosers, or maybe it was a saying about po’ folks, that seems to apply here.
If only all of my “I’m gonna do this someday” goals fell together this quickly.… Read more
