Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Was going through my photo collection and saw that it had been over two years since I last snapped a shot of "My Mess". So, here's what it looks like today: As you an see there are still empty spots in my setup, some more obvious than others. The… more »

Was discussion storage speeds with some friends over lunch....so I wondered if I could get some data comparing the performance.vg0 is are two internal SATA drives, each on their own SATA channel, being mirrored. vg1 is the SANS Digital pair of drive… more »

Today, I came home late from work...and found sitting on my doorstep that FedEx has left the TiVo HD DVR there. Odd, when I ordered the Cox HD DVR, they wouldn't do that...and even though I waited at home all day by the front door, they claim that I was… more »

As the impending start of the new fall season, I noticed that my OTA HDTV tuner wasn't getting a signal for some reason..... At first, because it was like 2am, I thought maybe it was because WIBW-HD was off the air. But, since it wasn't working this mo… more »

Well, I didn't want to wake up this morning...I was sore, my throat hurt, there was a productive cough, and it is kind of gloomy out. But, I wanted to check clocks at home and at work to see what changed and didn't change. The first computer that sho… more »

Look at all the empty spots....what will I fill them with.... more »

Back on June 19/20, I blogged that I was staying up over night because I had an early AM flight and decided to just stay up for it. :yawn: I found it incredibly difficult to do...and after a while, I seemed to run out of stuff to do online to keep mys… more »

Yesterday I bought one of these from Best Buy. I had been on the fence for getting one for a while, since floppy drives are starting to get scare and CDs aren't practical. And, there'll be times where using the Internet be an option, either. But, it… more »

While, it has been much nicer working my Momitsu V880N since I JP1'd the old URC8910 that I had to control it. It hasn't been perfect. The biggest issue being the crummy directional arrow disc and the select button. Knowing the Momitsu V880N, this i… more »

Thinking things over some more, and noting that there was an SA8300 DVR code available....I decided to mess around with my JP1'd URC8910. Key changes.... SAT now controls my Samsung SIR-T351's....it shouldn't because I have two and there's not enou… more »

I had this extra remote (URC-8910) from when I was first playing around with JP1 and multiple ReplayTVs....before I settled on really liking a URC-6131 for the task of controlling my 7 ReplayTVs and TV/Receiver. Opting to use the Momitsu V880N's poor… more »

Good news...they are going to air the series in the US. Maybe I don't need to add Canada as somewhere I'll consider moving to...to find work. ;D Unfortunately, SciFi is a standard cable channel here....so it'll be hazzy analog 4:3. I was kind of h… more »