Comments blocked

Due to the massive spam appearance that affected me over the last weeks and months with the comment feature in this blog software I decided to deactive the feature for anonymous comments. I’ve no fucking interest in sharing links, helping someone with a college degree or buying pills et cetera. Actually I am not even sure if this function makes sense anyway. I leave the anonymous comment function deactivated till I’ll find a way to get rid of the spam.

For some reason is there a massive interest for all these spammers out there in the “Reporting for duty” blog entry. I’ve no idea what’s so special about it, maybe it’s the ‘duty’ and it comes into play with all these “Call of Duty” searches on google. Anyhow, I am going to enjoy the silence that will appear in my mailbox from this blog until now. If you really feel an urgent need to comment on something then register and wait for an unlock.

New media experience

I bought me a new TV a few weeks ago and yesterday was the first day where I integrated my unused but very powerful third PC into the whole multimedia system. By now there is no OS installed but in the near future I am going to install Windows 7 and Fedora on this PC. Windows 7 will be a kind of gaming console replacement system (DMC4 on a 40″ TV will kick ass) and the parallel installed Fedora will be the media center and “internet-machine”. I have chosen Fedora because the overall performance of the system is way better than Windows 7 and I don’t like the MC which is integrated into Windows 7 very much.

Actually I am not very sure about running two systems on a media center but the file handling sharing options are much easier than they are on Windows. Like I said Windows 7 will only be there for gaming, such as a nice Street Fighter IV session or a competition in Pro Evolution Soccer and Fedora will be the movie master. Another thing I am not sure about for the moment is, which media center software I should use under Fedora, mythTV or moovida, or if I should completely leave it and just use VLC or SMPlayer and customize the GUI of Fedora in that way that it is minimal but ultra functional.

One thing that is really annoying and disturbing is that the case, where the whole hardware is installed, is pretty loud and noisy. I am going to fix this in the nearby future by simply moving to another case that uses less but bigger fans and includes more 3.5″ slots. By now I have a lot of cooling boxes built in to the case for my hard drives but all these 40mm fans do too much noise so you’re not able to watch a movie in a friendly and silent environment. Well, well… there’s still a lot to do, but there’s no hurdle that cannot be taken…