I have been delinquent in posting parts one and two of my quest for digital cablecards with Time Warner Cable here in Austin, TX…but, they weren’t very exciting anyway. Then again, part three really wasn’t very exciting, but things are looking better. Cablecard Install Part I Part One was actually an eye opener for me. [...]

In anticipation of Project “A” (you’ll never guess), I have been looking into who provides cable service in Austin….drumroll…..Time Warner Cable. That is good news for me as I have been dealing with Comcast ever since I moved up to the Bay Area from San Diego…I never had any issues with TWC in San Diego…knock [...]

Looking to get something for that geek in your life? How about the Windows 7 Family Pack Upgrade from the Microsoft Store? This little bad boy will allow your dork to upgrade 3 Windows XP or Vista machines to Windows 7 Home Premium (it has the television stuff). Free shipping right now makes the $149 [...]

Well, I have been having computer chaos over here lately. My main workstation also acts as a Media Center PC or HTPC (Home Theater PC to some) has been acting up lately. I think the recent upgrade to Norton Internet Security along with dumb ass AOL 9.0 Security Edition (for proxy purposes) install are working [...]

Ok, sometimes Microsoft can be a PITA with how they intentionally try to wedge themselves into a market and free software makers out. Streaming audio has been one of those places for a long time and I really don’t know why MS just doesn’t support .pls and mp3 feeds natively…and why someone hasn’t created a [...]

LOL, well I have to say, I love the internet. You may remember I wrote about Sony installing a root kit last week. Well, it is really only a matter of time these days before any “corporate” software is circumvented by someone and made public on the web. Did I mention you can easily make [...]

Tivo fanatics of the world have been scheduling television shows remotely to their Tivos for over two years. Actually, even more if you were into paying them for the Home Media option (that is now free). I signed up and had it working in a few minutes a couple of years ago. I did it [...]

Apparently the folks at Sony have decided that their preferred method of implementing DRM software is to install a rootkit without anyone knowing. I just read an article over at ZD Net that details a few testers’ accounts of discovering the Sony DRM scheme. Worse, the software/rootkit apparently prevents songs from being copied to iPods. [...]

Many of you know that I am a total electronics geek and one of my latest projects is the home media center pc running Windows Media Center Edition 2005. Basically, the thing is a Tivo on crack. This is the 2nd generation of Windows MCE and they have improved a lot of the functionality over [...]

If you have ever used a real remote computer system like Citrix, then you have probably been craving multiple Remote Desktop sessions since you first fired up Windows XP Professional and/or Media Center Edition. Here is a HACK (translated: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK), to enable multiple Remote Desktop sessions on your XP Pro or [...]