I bring to you the best thing about democracy and open source all wrapped into a super-charged challenge to the established business models of the ‘man’ capped off with a bottled entrepreneurs spirit of true capitalism. OpenMoko: How to disrupt and Industry, but make more money for everyone. That is their sub-line, not mine…it links [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in June, 2007
I’ve written before about the Christian version of Ubuntu which adds on web filtering, some bible software and a few other things all pre-configured and installed by default. (you can see it here if you want….it is handy especially since linux lacks XXXChurch software) But now there is a new competitor on the block Ubuntu [...]
Current Music: Pandora.com again!!!Current Mood: Ouch!!!So I led worship last night at small group for the first time ever. It was a lot of fun and a little scary. Definitely played like crap, but no one seemed to mind much. (gotta love that about the small group environment when it comes to trying new things) [...]
New Antenna is completely built, and working. I had to buy nothing, I had everything in the house that I needed to complete the design from the lumen labs forums that I linked to earlier. The Pentium 3, 1GHz even with the GeForce 6200 isn’t exactly down with decoding the HDTV stream and displaying it [...]
The last sentence in this story is wrong. This is a purposeful attack engineered by the hive-mind. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1432171020070614
I received the Kworld 115 Tuner on Tuesday. I tried to use this guide on mythTV’s wiki, but that alone didn’t give me everything I needed. Instead, if you follow my path and buy this card and run ubuntu, start here and follow the first 4 steps (ignore the modprobe step) for the ATI HDTV [...]
Current Mood: nerdyBesides just being interested in the Tesla Roadster I’ve been on a big eco-friendly kick, and just had an odd interest in power electronics in general lately. To that end, here are some odd links. Very cool: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/enertia_house.php Very Stupid…I hate the government…they are now attacking people for being inventive and friendly to [...]
Current Mood: excitedAs you may have read on my wife’s journal, it looks HIGHLY probable that she will be getting at least one of her novels published (likely more). Now, there are always a lot of jokes made about how I “pre-spend” money we don’t yet actually have, which I do do. And, I often [...]
Current Mood: nerdyHardware arrived this weekend. Geforce 6200 AGP. Had to dremel off a little bit of the lower part of the bracket for mounting in the dell dimension 4100 because it has some stupid guide things on the bottom of the slots. The original GeForce 2 MX had a small chunk missing there (only [...]
Current Mood: nerdyI’ve been rambling a lot lately about MythTV, which is an open source project that aims for something akin to Microsoft’s Media Center application for Windows XP (MCE edition) and for Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. But it is a lot more than that, with an amazingly flexible client / server architecture. [...]
Fascinating article about a female reporter for the LA times working in and around Saudi Arabia. Really worth it if you have a few minutes. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-women6jun06,1,6178058,full.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
LinuxMCE It is already doing home automation, home security, VOIP (asterisk running in the background for voicemail and routing), Media Center / media player via the TV. ( techno nerd bable )
If you haven’t seen this yet, make sure to check it out, cuz it is pretty sweet. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.714476,-74.006996&spn=0.04001,0.063858&z=14&om=1&layer=c&cbll=40.714496,-74.007007 I guess my only question is; When they take the picture of my house, how can I make sure that I’m standing in front of it, so I get my picture taken with the house?
