ShinmaRyuu

^^^ That's very cool.

Blockbuster is a nice place to work if you want to do very little for good pay. You'll make about 7-8 dollars and hour and get free video rentals even of pre-release stuff. Pain in the ass to stay for a long time but for a short money making school job they are great. They are also super flexible for school hours.

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http://shinmaryuu.vox.com/library/post/jam...ly-missing.html That is a link to my blog with the story. You can also check it out on Leo Laporte's blog, Digg, etc. Start spreading the word as much as you can to get it out there. I am trying my best to keep my blog post updated as possible as the lattest news comes out.

The super card is a "mod device" that fits in the game slot. You insert the SD card with media into it. Then insert the cart into the GBA Micro. It ends up looking just like a Micro with a game in it. More info here http://sky2k.com/shop/supercard-sd-p-100.html

You can see the normal headphone jack here on the right side. There are some third party adapters out there for the Nintendo one though if you dig around. I got a tad delayed by an oops on my part. I forgot i had one added to my christmas list so now i have to wait for Christmas before i move forward. I don't really want 2 GBA Micros lol. I am however going to gather up the rest of the supplies so i might have some little video about that before hand.

The idea was to build a 2GB MP3 player that had style and sleekness of an iPod but could work on pretty much any system i threw at it. Here is what i came up with. http://shinmaryuu.vox.com/library/post/gpod-nano-2gb.html GBA Micro, Super Card, 2GB SD Card, and a SD Card Reader. Came in around 50 bucks less that a iPod Nano 2GB and mine can play games and even Video if i want to be nuts. I'll have this ready in December with some video of it in action. To me this is the perfect use for a not so great handheld system to get some use. I am going to try it out with the Game Boy MP3 player as well once i get my hands on one from import.

Children Of Mana for the DS has consumed my life currently. Great dungeon crawl beat down RPG.

I wrote a tutorial on setting up a voice activated front row based mac media center for the hak5 wiki. I have been doing a lot of front row hacking as of late and this is just the beginning. Thanks to moonlit for his help with the wiki formatting. http://www.hak5.org/wiki/Voice_Activated_Media_Center

Cash to pay for certain project parts. Other than that i am buying myself a new digital camera after selling my pile of crap Kodak.

Well i am glad a few people got a kick out of it.

[Came up with this idea while chatting in IRC a few days back and thought it would be a fun idea. I used to write alot of song parodies just out of pure bordem and enjoyment of music. This is only the first version of this parody as i think i can clean it up a bit and make it better but i thought it was time to share with more than the IRC world of Hak5.] Ultimate Showdown of IPTV Superiority (Parody Of Lemon Demmon's The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny) by Shinmaryuu Old DoubleD was sitting around TechTV like a big playground when suddenly KRose burst from the shade and hit DoubleD with a Idea so great DoubleD toked up and they started to film thebroken was born and on the attack who can forget the free pizza and Ramzi Hack but now the broken was gone this is true Kevin brought in Alex for a whole new feel Revision3 was born with a Diggnation apeal but before they could make it straight to the top Hak5 episode 1 came out with a pop Darren Kitchen, Wess Tobler, and Allicat and blew IPTV away with a half assed hak before they knew it they were on there way Open Alpha is next to game away the day This is the Ultimate Showdown of IPTV Superiority Video Bloggers, IPTVers, and Vidcasters as far as the eye can see And they all will survive, That's just the way it will be This is the Ultimate Showdown of IPTV Superiority A girl gamer it's about dang time Jenn Cutter's her name and that's just fine DLTV is up next yes Pattrick came back Robert is there too with his lab in black the show is great, so you better get ready Ask a Ninja is quite deadly I think Hope Is Emo is the next to get ripped They are made by the same guys ain't that a trip I'll let you catch up if you falling behind open up iTunes and prepare to hit find The More Input Show can not be missed The 1UP Show either with it's gaming twist Bre Pettis is cool but it's not MAKE's fault Phill Torrone and MAKE are just cool by default Here's a fun fact, when CFH canada comes on the air Jenn Cutter and Hak5 can both be seen there, oooh This is the Ultimate Showdown of IPTV Superiority Video Bloggers, IPTVers, and Vidcasters as far as the eye can see And they all will survive, That's just the way it will be This is the Ultimate Showdown... they may be quite broke and drive a Ford Tarus but there low budjet shows shall never bore us Network tv is calling it quits on there phones and people are begging for there IPTV Jones the network is down, writhing in pain RSS is flowing and IPTV is winning the game you can sit back and watch as the bandwidth flys all network tv can do is sit back and cry then Gibson the hacker and Louis the cook and Kyle from pure pwnage that guy is real bright and Alex Lindsy and Amber Mac the sweetie and Math Club Chris and Michael Virdi Da Poorboys, the Frederator, Techcentric, and Andy Walker Dosman, on10, every single NerdTVer Cody P. Christian and The greatest StepOne, BSoD, Cali Lewis, Doc Tiki, and the new broken Network TV was going down fast As IPTV stepped up and kicked it's boring ass the people had spoke and they liked what they saw the forums and IRC were both in awe and the fight raged on for a century IPTV had finaly won, but eventually the champion stood, the rest saw their mentor: Leo Leport in a bright red sweater This is the Ultimate Showdown of IPTV Superiority Video Bloggers, IPTVers, and Vidcasters as far as the eye can see And they all will survive, That's just the way it will be this is the Ultimate Showdown... this is the Ultimate Showdown... this is the Ultimate Showdown... of IPTV Superiority

My Living room with the beta version of my media center

Picture is now up.

Looking at about a grand for the Media Center. The 6TB tower will be alot but i am buying it over time so it won't be so bad. Yeah :) And yes pictures will be around on my blog later today.

My media center project now called A&W standing for Alice & Wonderland has taken over my old Mac Media Center idea. You can follow along with my progress over at my blog www.Shinmaryuu.vox.com from now on. I just posted stats this morning and i will be posting a beta test picture using my eMachine in place of Alice later on today. The cockpit feel is very cool ^_^. Alice = Media Center Wonderland = 6TB 8Bay Firewire Drive Enclosure built 750GB at a time. Wonderland - Alice - 17" Monitor & 20" TV = Media Center Glory.

Speaking of mac Mackbook:

I have been trying this myself and i know i am just missing something basic but i could use some help retooling Darren's VLC remote code to work in OSX (there are a few window centric bits that need fixed up). If someone could post the retooled for OSX code i would be much apreciated and credit you right by darren on my project page for my mac media center. Thanks in advance.

The advice i gave to my grandma to start out with is. Don't be scared to try things, save your files to the external drive, and always ask questions if you need help.

Step 1: My first step now with the new cable is to use the miniVideo to Composite cable to attach the iBook to the TV for video. The nice thing is as soon as the cable is plugged in the screen sets to the right resolution. The 4x3 resolution fits almost perfect to my 27" TV. Next up was the issue of getting sound to the TV from the iBook with out having to adjust the volume on the iBook. I am using the basic RCA to Mini Jack plug into the headphone port. I put the volume at full and then can use my normal TV remote to do the adjusting. So that pretty much is Step 1 and it works quite well. Next up is going to be gutting an old Record/8-Track player that will act as the housing for the 4 bay firewire enclosure and iBook. By the end of this i will have a old school record player looking device with a ton of home media power. Step 2 Coming Soon

Ok i did a test using my macbook and the cable i did get and it worked out well so i am hopeful for this project. I just sent tonight for the new correct cable from apple so i should have a pic and info about that coming in the next few days. A new idea i am kicking around is building the 4 bay fire wire enclosure and the ibook itself into a custom plexy case that would look a bit like an old record player if it was made by apple. Maybe even adding in a iPod dock right into the case. This is long off though as i still have alot to do just to get the basics ready. Also a quick note tvguy, moonlit, and myself have been having some fun talks over in IRC about how to make the IPTV experiance more like a normal TV experiance using special software and scripts. If you guys wanna yakk with us about this hit us up in IRC and will have some jam sessions. Full step 1 coming later this week.

Argh...Got the wrong cable from apple so i am set back a few days till i can get the right cable in.

This may help ya http://www.stir.ca/webtips/website_domain_names.html

Mitv stands for My Internet TV and is a project i have been wanting to work on almsot since the days of the broken but now i think i have a good way to do it. The idea is to have a central place holding IPTV content like Hak5 as well as "obtained" shows i like and to be able to have a nice place to sit down and watch such content. The issue though is that i wanted to spend the least amount i could and it had to run on mac because that is what i like. I also had to have atleast some portable content available to me. Here is how the project will be layed out. The base machine or the brain as i will call it from now on is my old iBook G4 1.2ghz. I am pumping the audio out via a RCA to Sterio jack to my sterio system and the video out via a mini DV to composite cable. This pretty much turns my TV into a second monitor. Now attached to the iBook will be a 4 drive firewire enclosure with 4 320gb HDs for storing the content. I wanted an 8 bay but it's not in the budget currently. This will also be storage for my own video content/back up hense the mass of space. Now how do i want to watch this content in an organized way? Well at first i said front row but that not only doesn't work on older macs but also can't play AVi and WMV files very well if at all. So i am going with 1 of 2 Mac media front ends but that choice will be made a bit later in the project. I'll still have a little issue with WMV but i am working on that as well. Next up i need a remote. Well for now the system will be controled over VNC using my Palm|TX or laptop which ever is closer at the time. I'm also looking into some RF keyboard and mouse stuff for general use of the computer. Upgrades down the line: I would like to create a myth box and use the iBook as the front end for that. I would like to do a version of the RF Modulator/VLC Remote to send the content to other places in my apt mostly my bedroom. As well as a few other things working off the central brain. I'll have pictures here as i go along with some updates on what i have done. Step 1: Attaching the iBook to the TV Coming between august 5th-7th. The cable is in the mail :).

Mine i found kicking around google looking for AVs. I will switch it up once i get gimp installed on my laptop. I do kind of have a fondness for death tux though :)