Windows Server 2003 RELEASED

[BuZz]

btw, have you tried windows on your joggler buzz?

not yet no. I guess I should just to see it running

[pete]

The CE 5.7 inch touchscreens are called OmniTouch and are connected to my HAI OPII alarm combo home automation on steroids alarm panel.

http://www.homeauto.com/Products/Consol ... uch57e.asp


They are overpriced at something like $600-1000 USD each; pretty nice foot print though. My wife actually touches these; but is afraid of my custom screens thinking she may "break" the house. lol. Thin; the only connection to it is an RJ-45 connection; not networked though (serial and power).

I have a Russound audio system and the Keypads are the same with only a RJ-45 using serial and power.

[danfoshizzle]

lol yeah its surprising just how powerful the joggler is

[pete]

I'm going to guess that the CE's are probably only 200Mhz CPU's; very primitive in fact. I can update the firmware though with a USB stick and a cold boot.

I have the house configured with 12 audio zones and did separate out the bathroom with its own sub amp as I crank the music to wake up sometimes in the morning. It's using two 8" in wall speakers. I listen though sometimes more to the BBC news than music though...(age thing?).

[danfoshizzle]

dammit looks like a joggler is going in there then lol 200mhz is no good for bathroom multimedia, and pretty expensive too. will have to waterproof a new joggler later on this month,

My birthday tomorrow too so doing nothing but drinking for the whole of sunday lol

[pete]

The CE TS is just a serial controller form the Russound zoned amplifier. The Russound keypads control the source and volume of the audio.

The Joggler on the other hand can be the source of audio or control the audio whether using the Joggler speakers or externally amplified speakers.

I wired the house though with 16 guage speaker wire pairs and RJ-45 wall plates for controlling audio. These are automous runs for the audio. Clean sound; no hum or anything throughout the house. In my kids bedrooms I have configured the audio for "in room" sourced and external house sourced video; such that they can watch their TV's or listen to their own source of audio.

[danfoshizzle]

hope its not an age thing, as i listen to talk radio all the time lol

[danfoshizzle]

im starting to see the whole star trek thing now lol

[pete]

Dan with the glass Capacitance screen; you would only have to bury the Joggler in the wall flush with the screen and it should be pretty water proofed eh?

Very resilent screen being glass and all.

[pete]

Yes it was 'round 1980 that I was "playing" with lasers; bored; coring apples; neat stuff. I borrowed a helium argon laser on a rail of sorts; maybe two meters long for a bit. It would dim all of the lights in the house. I remember shining it on a water tower a few miles away...fun stuff...

[danfoshizzle]

yeah should be resistant enough, gonne build it into a project box of sorts and cool it better, and should be good to go

[pete]

You know that Dan; when you start listening to "talk radio" its a sign of old age eh? lol

[danfoshizzle]

lol talk radio is ageless im 23 tomorrow!!

[BuZz]

happy birthday! So about half a third pete's age then

[danfoshizzle]

thank you, and yes i believe so lol

[pete]

Happy Birthday Dan!


You are my son's age...I was almost 40 when my wife had him....think I was still in school at the age of 23...up until I was almost 30....this was before the "age of computers"; needed to used a slide ruler for my physics classes...back then the finer the lines on the slideruler the better the calculations; like today's CPU/Memory stuff...

[mickchip]

Happy Birthday Dan, Pete you must be around the same age as me.
Tried doing my own image but gets stuck at mup.sys, will keep trying.

[pete]

mickchip,

You've made me feel better now around these "youngsters" lol...yes I have a 35 year old parrot (Amazon Blue Crown) and she's been around since almost birth...I hand fed her for a few months with a nose dropper....she hates my wife (think she is jealous- they cuss out each other all day sometimes). She was maybe 3-4" tall when I got her out of a guatamala jungle and now she's about 1 foot 4" or so. She is a "fixture" in this home and I've willed her to my daughter

Do you get to the 1/2 screen thing which happens in the middle of teh mup.sys loading? Not sure but it looks to be when the video and NIC drivers are loading.....

[danfoshizzle]

always wanted a parrot!

And i am only young in years, as told by the tv i watch, car restoration shows, antiques shows and the like lol

[pete]

"Kika" my parrot is like family these days; having been around so long. I can call her a fussy princess of sorts. Many years ago I took her with me for this or that; she was good; and did sit on my shoulder never really going anywhere. She never really did fly that well cuz she is very bulky; so when she flew; it was more down than up. I remember though one day maybe 20 years ago my dog would walk up to her cage; bark at her. She was never inside of her cage; but mostly outside on her perch. Well; she pounced on the dog, chasing it around the house; then bit the dog's snout. Blood everywhere; dog went wimping to a corner of the house and stayed there until the next day. The dog never barked at Kika afterwards.

My wife and I did our yearly "Fall Tour" with the automobile club last weekend. Part of it was going to a Vineyard in Wisconsin. (a bit of a wine tour) and visiting the EAA museum and HQ. Very vintage vintage planes. Last year we toured the town of Auborn Indiana; home of the 30's something Duesenberg. Very nice automobile. I have one automobile that I seldom drive and mostly just clean and keep it covered in garage. Before last weeks tour I ended up using clay to get a nice mirror finish. I was surprised how well it still runs. I never drive it; and it only has about 10k miles on it. Its a little pocket rocket. I took it up to around 145 MPH last year in the country. Its a bit smaller than a corvette and it'll probably beat one in a quarter mile race. We have a track nearby; kind of neat. A couple of years ago I did some all day training thing to drive on the race track. They put walkie talkies in the cars and would yell at us when we would take the curves too fast; it was a lot of fun; kind of like being in a go-cart but in a car instead.

Yes my last visit to St. Pauls Cathedral; looking for antiques; fell asleep in the car while friends went antiqueing. I stayed up the night before til morning. Not a good thing to do.

Really Dan, you can be as young or as old as you want to be; its up to you. So your birthday is like "years young" instead of "years old"; lol