Category: Computer
MKV with 10bit h264 video and 5.1 Flac on a Popcorn Hour A110
Years ago we bought a Popcorn Hour A110 (Network Media Tank NMT) to play back high definition video files (mostly in MKV format) on the TV and not have to hook the PC up to the TV to watch videos in M... Read More
Back to the disks
I can remember when we first got our first computer back when I was still in high school (386SX 16 with 2Mb RAM, 60Mb HDD, no sound card or CD-ROM with DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0 on 5″ disks) the bigge... Read More
Do the floppy disk shuffle.
You think trying to find a working floppy disk would be easy – but nooooo. I’ve been through about 5 blank ones so far and all of them have “issues” bad sectors on them. You th... Read More
Just because we can doesn’t mean it’s going to work.
I bought some more DVD-R discs the other day and they were rated at 8x – keeping in mind what I wrote about DVDR drives, DVD media and what the drive firmware lets you do I got some Memorex DVD-... Read More
Why won’t you let me?
Time to take the plunge and buy ourselves a DVD burner. Now was the time as prices had been getting lower and lower and a unit with ALL the features we wanted was now pretty cheap we decided to do it.... Read More
Choice is good.
I’ve been toying with the idea of “going to Linux” for a while now (cue “M$/windows is bad” remarks) and found a site which lists alternatives for all the popular windows... Read More
You’re doing what?
I just love it when you’re using a bit of software (word processor, music player etc.) and you’re not doing anything out the ordinary when all of a sudden it (the software) wants to connec... Read More
They’ll pay us?
News.com has a story that Microsoft will reimburse direct damages their Anti-Spyware Beta software causes on your PC. They’ll reimburse you up to $5 (US dollars I presume). Now is this a joke or... Read More
Seven deadly sins.
So Micro$oft is going to release Internet Exploder (IE) 7 ahead of the next version of windows despite telling consumers that there would be no new version of IE before then. Reasons for doing so are ... Read More
I’ve got new extensions.
We have recently changed the extensions of all ‘blog entires on Blood and Soil from HTML to PHP. If you have come in via a search engine link and are getting “file not found” error m... Read More
Don’t open another window.
One thing that has started to get my goat is the number of websites that open (external) links in other windows. Arggh. I mean how hard is it to have your site open a link in the same window. Windows ... Read More- 2 of 3
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