So, I got adventurous last night and installed the Gutsy Gibbon Beta on my laptop. The hard disk that came with the machine had died, and I have replaced it with a new 7200 RPM Seagate job, so a reinstall was needed anyway.
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I bought the sum of the parts, to build myself a new media box today.
Let’s just get the parts list out of the way, shall we?
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So…
In what seems like the shortest incubation period of anything, ever, the Debian dev’s have released Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, aka Etch, as stable.
I immediately downloaded the three DVD images (I’m weird that way, i like having the full distribution to install, instead of doing a net-install) and went nuts with the install, loving that I could get “back home” as it would be.
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I’m a complete media whore.
1000 CD’s, more than 20,000 mp3’s, 200 DVD’s and several dozen full length DivX and mpg movies.
I’m constantly surrounded by media, and I absorb it without barriers.
Our current batch of portable, media friendly hardware, sucks ass though. I’m looking for something simple, and I have spent a few weeks, and countless searches on google, to no avail.
I’ve been using Vonage for about a month now, and I am finally, very happy with the service.
The initial problems that I had with setup have completely disappeared, and the service has been flawless since then.
Call clarity has been wonderful, tough to tell from a standard land line, and I have come to the conclusion that most of the static that I head in the background is due to this craptacular quality of Angela’s land line. It’s crystal clear if I call anyone else. Just some old copper in PA I guess.