I found the missing power strip from the move. I also have the APC three-row power strip that I got for Christmas. Total geekgasm as far as a power strip goes. APC’s guarantee and quality for a simple power strip. Anyway, I have determined that I have an insane amount of cords, and should probably wall mount my power supplies.

However, I will need to make room for a third desk and computer here in the mid-to-near future. I’m not even thinking about the station I was gifted with at xmas that currently resides at ‘s house. Bah, that one should stay there for visitation purposes, at least. ;)

I also want to mount my Altec Lansing satellite speakers and subwoofer in a way that allows everyone in the computer room, no matter what desk you’re sitting at, to enjoy -both- sides of the stereo music. I should clearly call ‘s brother about this. Not to mention my VCR that won’t get or display video properly in my mess of an entertainment system.

Gah. Tired. Sleep now.

The beta trial for iChat AV is done. I need to purchase Panther if I want iChat AV now. I’m considering it, because of the improved Finder and font management as well as licensed iChat AV.

The new finder looks suspiciously like gnome’s file browser for RedHat. I’m guessing that it’s similar across the board, as far as distros go, but why couldn’t Apple just do that right off the bat? Heh.

Okay, my Apple geekery is done… FOR NOW! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

While playing around with the Creative Nomad MuVo NX that ‘s brother got me for Xmas, I opened up Creative’s initialization utility.

Hrm, I wondered, what is this?

Apparently, they named their format utility an initialization utility. On Win98SE. Duhr. If I had been on a Mac, I never would have clicked on “start”. Heh.

So, I have this idea…

• I’ve got an old AT power supply that’s in a case that’s wonderfully painted silver and be-stickered, including a Decepticon logo on the front.
• I’d need a motherboard that was old enough to deal with AT, but new enough to have AGP. I’m thinking the high end of the old AT mobos.
• I’d need enough of a hard drive to handle WinXP.
• I’d need a mid to high end sound card.
• I’d need a set of speakers that had a subwoofer and several satellites that could be mounted to wall corners.
• I’d need a standard NIC.
• I’d need an assload of memory and video memory to handle XP on that old mobo, as well as iTunes’ little visualization niftyness.
• I’d need a touch screen monitor that I could mount to the wall at around shoulder level, maybe a bit higher.

What would I have? SOUNDWAVE.

This can be done.

Apple X11 – Installed.
OpenOffice.org – Installed.
Configuration – Complete.
Reading and writing to zip drive from app – Successful!

XWindows is odd to have running on my Mac. I’ve used similar apps on my PC to run XWindows apps remotely on my Windows desktop. I can’t say I’m not diggin’ it tho.

Now I’m trying the new beta iChat. Will the madness never end?!