I just received a package from japan containing Audio Technica ATH-AD500X headphones. They are a mid range (not quite audiophile) headphone, and they sound pretty delicious.
I was getting real tired of typical gaming headsets and this is going to be my solution. The sound quality of the speakers was, well mediocre at best. I wanted more, and after doing some comparison shopping and listening to several different headphone these made it to the top five. I picked these for the price. I was really liking the Sennheiser HD 600 and the Audio Technica Audiophile ATH-AD2000X but these were WAY out of my price range at over $400. So these are a great compromise. The only downside with the is they make poor quality recordings more noticeable and the open back desigh allows everyone else to hear what I'm hearing.
Now I know what you are thinking, "But Jolly, what about a microphone so you can talk to Snauz or myself whist gaming?" Good question, and I have the answer. I also ordered a Antlion Mod Mic 4.0 which has a sticky back magnet the attaches to the side of the headphones and the the Mod Mic attached to that. It has a great microphone in it with a pop filter. It is designed to stay to the side of you mouth and is fantastic.
If you are looking to upgrade your head set I highly recommend going this route.
Just joined the modern ear of WiFi! This thing is awesome! Downloading torrents, I game off steam, several apps for my tablet and phone, and to top it off streaming in Netflix on my Roku. Whilst all that happened I was watching HD videos on you tube and didn't feel any stress. I'm seeing bout what I'm paying for with cox. This is awesome.
I hate the smart WiFi thing that Linksys is doing now. Too many steps just to setup my router. Even the GUI is cumbersome, not very logical, and not enough control. I was running DD-WRT on my old router, so I'm am a bit biased towards that type of interface and control over my hardware it gave me.
Other then the router config I really like the speed it has given me. I give it 3.8 out of 5 Skull and Cross bones.
So, as much as I'd love to have a good gaming desktop, I just don't have the room. My current laptop is a gateway FX 6831. It has been great. It is now six years old and showing its age. Still trying to hold it's own, but not holding up to well. I got panels missing and the battery is shot...(second battery) So, this is what I'm thinking about.
So the forums are not AS active as they used to be. And, not all the members come around as much any more. This last ten years has been pretty keen, even if we don't have a server to frag our faces off in. On this, the tenth year I've been on these boards. I'd like to say, Merry Christmas and we need a reunion or something. A LAN, a something.
So I recently bought a few Rasberry Pis rev. B. These are 700Mhz ARMs SoCs with 512Mb RAM. They have 2 USB, HDMI out, Composite Video out, 1.8mm audio out, 10/100 Network Interface, and a GPIO header. These little guys are cool.
I have one with RISC OS, one has openELEC, and one with Raspbeian. openELEC is a XMBC media center. Raspbian is a lightweight linux for RasPi. RISC OS is...well it's RISC OS. I'm currenly waiting for a release of Android 4 for RasPi to make that do something. I have a couple of ideas to integrate RasPi with my car, and a Quad rotor.
Lets be honest, we're all geeks here. Self admitted and proud. With that in mind I have found something in Omaha that I thought of making my self. I'm planing on taking a look at it in the next couple of days or next week.
Four years ago I bought a Gateway FX6831 Gaming laptop, It's done me well. When a friend came to me and asked what I recommend for a gaming type laptop for a good cost I had to do a little homework. I found the ASUS line of gaming Laptops. I told him to buy the G74SX. It had everything he wanted and the price was fair at just under $1400 dollar. It was about the same price I paid for mine four years ago.
Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.2GHz 17.3" LED Screen 12GB DDR3 500GB Hard Drive Nvidia Geforce GTX 560M GDDR5 3GB 17.3" 1920 x 1080 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Bluetooth 3.0
I got to mess with it for a bit, Games look awesome on it, it can run Borderlands, Skyrim, and two minecraft servers and doesn't even lag. It's a beast of a laptop.
So, as of late I've been working toward opening up a car audio shop. I do car audio install on the side right now, Kinda big ones. Anything from Show, to Sound Quality, OEM upgrades to iPad, and Android integration, in car PC too. I just got some what nationally recognized, Though I'd share.
4 1/2 cups Water 3 cans tomato paste 1 lg. can whole tomatoes 1 lg. can diced tomatoes 1/4 c. olive oil 4 tsp. oregano 2 tsp. basil (fresh leaves or dry) 2 c. fresh mushrooms 4 cloves minced garlic 1/2 chopped onion 1 fresh chopped green onion 1/2 sugar 2 cups red wine ( I like to use a merlot, don't use Carlo Rossi... I'll hurt you)
Saute the onions in butter, until they are clear with a slight hint of brown. Add all the ingredients together, except for the wine. Let simmer for one and a half hours, now add the wine and let simmer for another hour.
(2 tsp. Mancini hot roasted pepper, pureed) (optional, but really good)
In a large mixing bowl combine everything and mix it well. Use your hands and fold until completely mixed. start making 2" meat balls, once you have made all your meatballs, place in in a baking dish with 2 cups of sauce. Cook for one hour in the ove at 300 degrees, or untill completely cooked .
**hint: add wine to sauce, add 2 cups of the sauce to the meatballs, just the sauce, try to leave out chunks of mushrooms and other bits, now cook the meatballs and the last stage of sauce at the same timer.
Boils some spaghetti and serve with you favorite wine.
5lb Ground Beef (ground chuck) (if you can get it smoked all the better) 2 64oz bottles of V8 Juice 2 Large can of stewed whole or halved tomatoes 2 Large cans of diced tomatoes 2 Large cans of chili beans 2 Large cans of red beans 2 Large cans of black beans 3 cups of chili powder 1 1/2 Yellow onion chopped 2 Red Bell peppers chopped 2 yellow bell peppers chopped 2 Serrano Peppers de-seeded 1 habanero pepper de-seeded 2 cups of paprika 2 cups powder red pepper 1 cup cracked pepper corn 1/2 cup sugar 2 bottles of either a wheat beer, or a double bock (both work really well) salt to flavor
saute onion until clear and Brown the hamburger in really big pan... Combine a all ingredents in to Large stock pot excepted serranos and habanero. bring to boil and Let it boil for an hour and add beef and onions, turn down to med heat and leave it for two hours. cut the two serranos and the habanero in quarters and wrap in cheese cloth. tie off with a string and put them in the chili. Turn off heat let cool takes and if you can place it in the fridge when it gets to room temperature. let it stay in the fridge for eight to 24 hours. Put it back on the fire and let it simmer for eight more hours. stir often, after four hour you can take the cheese cloth bag out. Done...
I cook this for lots of people so the recipe is large if you want to make it in smaller batches just cut recipe in half.
**Warning Habanero and Serrano peppers have a really powerful oil that is ard to wash off you hand don't rub you eyes after handling.**
I found that sugar water and hand soap is good for pepper oils....
I have been using Windows 7 (Retail - Ultimate) for a day now, and in the first 24 hours of use I have found one bug/issue. It isn't a huge deal either. When my system come out of sleep / hibernate the sound, and blue tooth hardware doesn't get reinitialized. The fix was to disable sleep and hibernation. Problem solved.
Other then that this is fantastic. I have a huge performance boost in games, boot time is under one minute, from post to desktop. Most applications are up in under a second, not including one that have to load extra stuff. The OS its self uses less then a gig of ram, maybe 1gb. I'm actually impressed, compared to Vista, this is a hundred times better. My soft overclock on my graphics card has be stable and un-buggy. In Vista, I could only run it on good days, and that seemed to be maybe once a month. .lol.
So, basically what I'm trying to say is... Windows 7 wins my seal of approval.
Some really good reads came out of some on the websites that are listed. If you are old or blind it will be harder to get the websites that are listed in the videos. So ZW, clean you reading glasses really good.
1/3 cup yellow curry powder 3-8 Thai peppers (depending on how much heat you'd like, I like 8, still very tasty though.) 1/2 med. yellow onion, quartered and peel each layer. 1/2 ginger chopped 4 large cloves garlic minced 2 tsp. ground coriander 2 tsp. ground cumin 1/4 tsp. fresh nutmeg (or substitute cinnamon) 3 Tbsp. fish sauce (available at Asian/Chinese food stores) 1 tsp. Clove 1 Tbsp. brown sugar 1 can coconut milk 1 Tbsp. fresh lime juice 1 Tbsp. Olive oil
Meats and Veggies and other ingredients 3 large chicken breasts chopped into pieces 1 stalk lemon grass 2 red potatoes, sliced, boiled for 10 mins. 1 green and/or red bell pepper, de-seeded and sliced 1 package of frozen stir-fry veggies, thawed (two make it easy)
2 cups uncooked rice
**Cooking rice** Start this as you start cooking everything else. Rice can be very easy if you pay attention to it. I like to rinse my rice and let it soak on cool water for about the time it takes for the water to boil. You don't need to but it helps make sticky rice, Ilike sticky rice. Bring water to a boil, once water is boiling add rice, and continue boiling for 5 mins. Turn down heat to low and cover, for about 25-30min. but check often. you rice will be done when all the water is gone and you see holes in the rice. turn off heat immediately or you rice will burn...burned rice is the suck to clean out of a pan. ...if you have a rice cooker, USE IT. Rice cookers are AWESOME...I Want one.
in a large sauce pan start to saute the first half of you half of onion and garlic over med heat with olive oil. Saute until clear and slightly brown. Next add the coconut milk and allow to boil, then immediately reduce heat to low. Allow to sit while you combine the curry powder, cumin, coriander brown sugar, clove and nutmeg and then add them to the coconut milk, stir until combined completely. At this point add the fish sauce, ginger, and 4 pepper let simmer for 10 min.
In a large wok or fry pan and saute second half of onions in olive oil. Cook unil clear and slightly brown. Add chicken and lemon grass and cook chicken. ad 1/3 cup of the sauce to the chicken. add the veggies, and potatoes along with the other 4 peppers. allow the veggies to get hot.
Combine all the ingredients and add the lime juice. let simmer for 5 to 10 mins.
Dish up and enjoy... This is a recipe I make at least once a month...
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