I ordered a pair of eVGA NVTV Single-tuner cards from Amazon today — their free shipping made the to-my-door price cheaper than anyone that Froogle and assorted other pricing sites could turn up. Amazon offers quite a few tuners from the Designed for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Logo Partner List. NewEgg, unfortunately, stocks […]
Archive for February, 2005
Tuning In
07Feb05Little Green Button
04Feb05So I came home Wednesday with most of my XP MCE parts in hand, eager to start building. In general I hate any kind of work that remotely resembles assembling a standard PC — it’s tedious work and in my whole life I had never been able to line up a motherboard properly — but […]
Newegg Rocks
02Feb05I placed my order around for the MCE parts late Sunday night. On Monday morning my parts shipped from three different Newegg warehouses. Two of the shipments arrived today — my remote control from the Left Coast should be here tomorrow. With other online shops I’m usually happy if a Sunday order has shipped by […]
What RSS Bandwidth Problem?
01Feb05The so-called RSS Bandwidth Problem is a meme that just won’t frickin’ die. I think Joel Spolsky started it way back in October of 2002, but it may be even older than that. The supposed problem was quickly resolved using Conditional GETs — a scheme that sends a simple 304 Not Modified message back to […]
Fugget About It
01Feb05I’d completely forgotten that Winbook came out with an attractive XP MCE box for $999 after $200 rebate — the PowerSpec MCE 410. It’s got a P4 3GHz, 512MB PC-3200, 160GB SATA, 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW, Radeon X300 w/ 128MB DDR, 7.1 Audio, 7-in-1 card reader, single tuner, remote, etc. They squeezed it all into […]
