Sunday, November 18, 2007
New digs nirvana
Sunday, November 18, 2007 
New house. We aren't quite finished emptying the cardboard boxes, but we've made quite a dent in the amount of work required. Our house laughed at us while we moved, consuming everything we threw at it. That was a wonderful experience. Furniture that was almost squeezed into space in our old house now breathes freely and easily.
Verizon came on a Saturday and hooked us up with phone/internet/television and after a bum junction box, a bum digital cable box, and a bum HDMI cable, we've got sweet HD on all three floors. The FiOS speed is wicked, the HD is great (although the interface is kinda like the 360... fine when you don't need to dig deep, bad when you do), and no complaints about the whole installation.
The downstairs office (finally a true, proper office) is the digital hub... containing two wireless routers (one Airport Extreme and one provided by Verizon) provide wide coverage across the house. The new Leopard screensharing thing basically allows me to work on the machine in the office from the laptop, and the same in reverse). Super sweet. Back to my Mac is set up as well, opening the accessibility even further.
I'm running HDMI for video only and component for audio (through some Rhymeswithnose equipment) for a truly great experience. I ran the cables through the intake ducts in the HVAC system (through custom wooden grate covers) to hide all the rear channel wires running to the bass modules. I have yet to really open up the 5.1, but Halo 3 and other stuff is simply stunning on this thing.
So the dust is settling here and its time to concentrate on other stuff (as this move has really consumed a lot of time, energy, and free time). Code here we come ;)
Verizon came on a Saturday and hooked us up with phone/internet/television and after a bum junction box, a bum digital cable box, and a bum HDMI cable, we've got sweet HD on all three floors. The FiOS speed is wicked, the HD is great (although the interface is kinda like the 360... fine when you don't need to dig deep, bad when you do), and no complaints about the whole installation.
The downstairs office (finally a true, proper office) is the digital hub... containing two wireless routers (one Airport Extreme and one provided by Verizon) provide wide coverage across the house. The new Leopard screensharing thing basically allows me to work on the machine in the office from the laptop, and the same in reverse). Super sweet. Back to my Mac is set up as well, opening the accessibility even further.
I'm running HDMI for video only and component for audio (through some Rhymeswithnose equipment) for a truly great experience. I ran the cables through the intake ducts in the HVAC system (through custom wooden grate covers) to hide all the rear channel wires running to the bass modules. I have yet to really open up the 5.1, but Halo 3 and other stuff is simply stunning on this thing.
So the dust is settling here and its time to concentrate on other stuff (as this move has really consumed a lot of time, energy, and free time). Code here we come ;)
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