Travel Tips to Indonesia

1) If you need Visa on Arrival, make sure you have USD. USD 25 for 2 week visa. Get off the plane quick and be the first in line.

2) Avoid line at immigration with lot of kids. Pick the line with female officer at the desk. More efficient

3) Use only Silver Bird and Blue Bird taxi service at aiport or hotel.

what's the fuck wrong with review33.com

The admin from review33.com is banning users left and right. The site used to allow political related discussions but lately those threads have been deleted.

I guess the owners of the site are echoing Mainland China gov on "harmony". What a bunch of a-holes.

夏威宜家鄉

幾年未番過去. 回鄉探親加帶朋友去玩一個禮拜

試下用google my map 去加相. 幾好玩

I miss Hawaii...

HTPC 第二彈

個htpc玩佐大約六個月. 跟住出門旅行一個星期番黎就開唔著. 應該係部機自己auto resume預錄後
就有問題. 之前都發覺部htpc散熱有問題. 個機箱係細d.

自己troubleshoot一排發覺應該係MB死佐. 嗚嗚嗚...

果一排AMD Socket 939開始平同埋Silverstone既case真係正好多. 一於黎過HTPC第二彈.

今次個spec係

AMD 939 3000+
Magic-Pro K8V-Ultra
SilverStone LC17
Onkyo SE-150PCI
Inno3D Nvidia 6600GT
Lite-On DVD
512mb RAM

TV card用番之前Hauppauge PVR-150MCE
Happauage MCE Remote


SilverStoneLC17賣八百零. 不過真係物有所直 . finishing唔錯. 同埋個case非常通風



有之前裝MediaPortal經驗. 今次就快好多. 我有NOW同Cable. 呢兩個機頂盒都有RCA out. 我就想去入埋個htpc. 上Happauge個網睇下原來有舊咁既野就可以有多兩個RCA in. Cool!!!



因為Cable同NOW都係RCA入. 預錄就要自己轉定台. 唔係就錄錯台. Hauppauge個MCE Remote Kit 入邊有個IR Blaster. Mediaportal入邊有個叫IR Blaster既plug-in. 佢應該可以真接support轉台. 不過玩佐幾日都唔得.

Anyway, 唔理個ir blaster住. 裝PureVideo codec, zoomplayer同ffdshow搞掂DVD playback先. 我原先用cheap cheap杰科DVD 機. 宜家用zoomplayer+ffdshow(resize 同sharpen filter)真係嬴成條街.

再黎裝foobar加Onkyo SE-150PCI sound card. 嘩! 同我之前用on-board spdif out簡直唔知自己以前聽乜...

雖然我部唔係頂級兩皮野htpc. 但我已經滿足

但始終唔可以自動轉cable/now台有d唔happy.

Where there is a will, there is a way...

下回ir blaster大分解

My first HTPC

05年中. 因為買佐個LCD電視同自己想睇DVD靚d 所以令我想整部HTPC.

自己做佐幾多網上research. 香港同外國網站都有. 發覺好人係買d 勁video card, 勁CPU. 我自己就鍾意value for money. 自己就決定呢個config

AMD XP 2600
512M RAM
MB Winfast K7 ncr18(nforce2 with soundstorm) 貪可以digitial out去 AMP
Hauppauge 150 MCE TV card
Inno3d 660GT
Pionner AX09 DVD drive
Aero Control Pane
Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse
換晒靜case fanl

自己一手一腳砌. 好多年玩砌機 都幾過癮. 攪到boot得起 裝埋xp 都用左成星期.

Nvidia driver 可以用custom resolution. Set左 1366 x768去match 個 lcd.

Software就用zoomplayer加 Nvidia Pure Video Decoder. 試過Dscaler5. 不過唔及PureVideo Decoder. 裝埋ffdshow. 又整左成個星期. 鍾意叫做可以用

我通常download 美國劇集 Lost/24/CSI. 的用部htpc去睇真係一流. Foobar去聽CD都唔錯.

M$ MCE好似幾cool 不過成1500. 睇下byopvr.com有好多htpc front end. 自己試佐好多個. 終於
決定用Mediaportal. http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

佢地整到好鬼似MCE. 又timeshit又tvguide. 最正係可以自己開機錄節目. 我買個oem mce remote都用得 唯一缺點係睇唔到中文tv guide. 不過我用黎錄tvb同 pearl多.

部機好地地一兩個月之後...