Wheeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
09.11.05 (12:35 pm) [edit]Digital cable and Internet is installed! I'm doing this shit at home again! Finally! But the damn computer is still riddled with spyware and it's slow as fuck! I'll work on that soon! I'm happy! Exclamation mark!
Dougie!
posted by: Stone (reply)
post date: 09.11.05 (4:31 pm)
Nothing like streaming porn in the privacy of your own home...
posted by: jhillst (reply)
post date: 09.11.05 (4:33 pm)
Isn't that where the spyware came from in the first place? ;-)
posted by: eraserhead667 (reply)
post date: 09.11.05 (5:36 pm)
Reply to: Stone
I have no idea what you could possibly mea...ouch! My fucking hand!
posted by: L.A. King (reply)
post date: 09.12.05 (4:28 am)
Spybot- Search and Destroy
The best spyware killer on the net. And it is FREE. Google it.
Bad porn sites are notorious for spyware. You need to start traversing the high quality porn locations.....
posted by: Spoooooooooooooooooooock! (reply)
post date: 09.13.05 (10:30 am)
Dude, alt.binaries.pictures.transexual.action is all you'll ever need.
Or...um...so I hear.
posted by: Dougie (reply)
post date: 09.13.05 (8:42 pm)
Reply to: L.A.
I've got Spybot. It's mostly great, but doesn' t get everything. Dude, I've been to porn sites that most degenerate swine would never even consider. When Judgement Day comes, my ass will be "Left Behind" faster than a whole string of shitty badly-written pseudo-Chrstian novels.
posted by: mblog (reply)
post date: 09.15.05 (8:13 am)
I don't have digital cable, and I'm trying to figure the best way to drop analog cable. All I get are the basic broadcast channels anyway, but they throw in the community channels and CSPAN I and II.
It would seem useful to be able to get information on what our government is doing, but tuning in randomly in case they are doing something relevant is not workable.
This week, we've been having the Roberts confirmation hearings. I was watching them on CSPAN, but after a while, they said that they needed to cut away to some other House business of some sort. Fortunately, I had a better solution.
A few weeks ago, I got an ATI HDTV Wonder card for my computer. It cost about $115, came with and antenna, a connecting block for hooking up other A/V devices, a remote control, and a USB receiver for the remote that uses RF.
I was surprised to learn that the tiny antenna pulls in signals that totally blow away anything I get on cable. And seeing it on a high definition computer monitor blows away watching it on an analog television.
But it's really content that's the issue here. CSPAN does not broadcast. Neither does my city council, in case they ever do anything important. But the nice thing about HDTV is variety.
Digital channels can be, and are, divided up into multiple feeds. A station can choose to have a high def broadcast at 1080i, and a low res broadcast (normal TV quality) at the same time. Or they can choose to have half a dozen normal quality channels and no high def feed.
My local PBS station does both. During the day, they have their Life, World, Encore, and Kids channel, and at night, they have the HD and encore channel. So I was able to watch the hearings that CSPAN left out, and even little kids can find something at any time. Overall, most stations have several feeds at a time, so I get more content and in better quality for free then I get from cable for money.
It includes built in recording capabilities, and unlike TIVO, I can allocate as little or as much of my hard disk as I want, and hard disks are cheap. I can pause live TV, or back up or move ahead (assuming I had paused or backed up, that is) and the quality blows away DVDs.
Now if I can figure out a way to get this into my living room and bedroom in an affordable way, I'll tell the cable companies where to take their service. In the mean time, it's not hard to see that the break even point is not so far in the future when it comes to getting high def vs paying for cable. Now if only set top HDTV tuners were not such a rip off, I'd have it made.