For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to have a couple of arcade style video games in my house. Of course, many of the ballers on MTV Cribs share my passion. But, what do you do if your Sega arcade game breaks? There is only one person that I have heard of that can repair the actual logic boards that these machines use. Ken Westerfield worked for Sega for something like 18 years, and as far as I know, he is the only guy in the United States that can fix these things the right way. So, if you are looking to fix your sega arcade game, you will want to give Ken a call.

tags: arcade, games, repair, sega

As if it should come as a surprise, Microsoft is apparently interested in putting one of their Operating Systems on the OLPC (aka One Laptop Per Child) computers.  At the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong this past weekend, Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC, said:

I have known [Microsoft chairman] Bill Gates his entire adult life. We talk, we meet one-on-one, we discuss this project.

Well, duh. Of course Microsoft and Bill Gates are going to want to get in front of a computer using audience as early as they can.  As much as I hate it, why the heck not. Maybe this will finally put an end to that stupid fruit company’s users battle agains the Microsoft tyranny.  Let’s all just become robots shall we?

tags: apple, computer, laptops, microsoft, olpc

Stay tuned boys and girls for a review of my two new DViCO Fusion HDTV5 USB HDTV tuners that arrived last night.  I don’t have much time today to mess with these and the machines that they will be installed on, but I did have time to get one setup on my main Media Center Edition box. All I can say is, THANK GOD, someone has put some time and effort into software and drivers. Per the full-color glossy manual that comes with the HDTV5 USB tuners, I went to the DViCO website to download the latest software pack for the USB Gold tuners.  I installed the software first, was prompted to reboot and plugged in the tuner when windows came back up. The computer recognized the new software and two times I told Windows where to find the drivers, per the manual.  Done. I fired up the software and it autoscanned 44 channels (~32 DTV/HDTV channels here in San Francisco).  When it was done with the auto-scan it tuned in channel 2 in HD. I can honestly say, none of the ATI based NTSC or HD tuners I have went that smoothly when I installed them.  I have not fired up MCE yet as I want to get the antenna situation addressed BEFORE I let MCE know I have the HD tuners installed. I will use the DViCO software to do that as it is quite nice.  BTW, the OG “stick” antenna that comes with it outperforms the ATI/Philips HDTV antenna that came with my ATI HDTV Wonder and these tuners (Snapstream.com included them as a “freebie”)…funny.

tags: ati, dvico, hdtv, mce, media center, tuner

It is about time…at least I am sure Danielle feels that way. I am putting the D-Link DI-514 up on the blocks or available to anyone who wants it really. It is a wireless router that has served us over the past few years. It was a cheap purchase in order to get wireless internet access in the house when my Linksys WAP 11 decided it did not want to let me get into the config. I plugged the WAP 11 back in today, because the DI-514 was giving me grief for the past week, and it works perfectly. The WAP 11, while a little dated, is a great platform for two reasons: One, it is simply an Access Point so there is not a ton of technology and things to break inside of it. Two, it has awesome range and the ability to easily add some high gain antennas if I need to. I thought about adding an antenna to the DI-514, but the antenna port does not have a threaded connector. The antenna that comes with it constantly falls off because there are no threads on the router’s antenna port. I am not sure what the hell that is all about, but it is annoying as hell to say the least.

So, if anyone has a need for a wireless router, give me a holla y’all, and I will hook you up if I still have it.

tags: d-link, linksys, product review, wifi, wireless