At home I’ve had a homebuilt P4 3.2GHz desktop for a while now, it’s done me well but new video cards, faster multi-core processors and ofcourse Vista… it was time to build a new box. Recently Scott Hanselman posted about his new Ultimate Gaming Machine he had built up and I was inspired to build […]
My New SuperRig (AKA the gaming/media beast) Read More »
This blog article was initially just one large article and in an attempt to make it more enjoyable I’ve broken it down into 3 parts. This is part 2, using My Movies Catalog. My Movies Catalog is an add-on tool for Windows Media Center which allows you to connect to a webservice and pull down
Stream DVDs to your Xbox 360 from your Media PC (part 2) Read More »
I’ve spent the past few days looking for the easiest method to rip a DVD and stream it to my Xbox 360 from my Windows Media Center (or Vista) PC. There’s many different methods for this and most of them involve ripping the DVD to a single VOB file, renaming that file as a .MPG
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Since I have my wireless mesh network setup in the house, I have OUTSTANDING wireless access throughout the entire house. Now with good latency and no packet loss it’s time to start making the best of the network in the house. The first thing I did this weekend was enable my Xbox360 to connect to my
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