Mac Mini adventures … Part II

In my previous post I talked about switching my home setup to Intel Mac’s. There has been only one major problem and that was with my 32” Lexsor LCD. In the end, and trust me I tried many options, I bit the bullet and accepted there was a fairly serious incompatability problem with the 2 devices.

In the end I would say that neither the Mac Mini or the Lexsor was specifically to blame, the Lexsor talks to everything else I hooked it up to, although interestingly not via it’s DVI input. Then again the Mac Mini also displays on everything else I connected it to, I didn’t try hooking it up to a kettle, but then that would have been quite seriously dumb.

Ultimately drastic measures had to be taken, I went off to the local emporium of large screen LCD TV’s. Dragging the Mac Mini along to test for further incompatabilites before I shelled out some serious wong for a replacement screen.

I was pleased to find that all the screens I tested worked fine, so I was able to pick out the one with the best range of resolutions, aspect ratio’s etc… To be fair I’d been less than completely satisfied with the Lexsor, for one, aspect ratio’s of only 4:3 style resolutions are supported, and there is little in the way of general audio out (a headphone socket with independent volume control only accessible via a menu). In a word I had all the excuses I was looking for to get a new screen, and hell, it was my birthday the day before, so… to be really adult… Boo.

So I came away with a (very heavy) 42” LG LCD got it home, set it all up, and grinned exhausted, but very relieved that I now had the Mac mini running the home theatre.

Moral of the story, it’s all good if your equipment is compatible.

Add comment March 15th, 2007

Robert Anton Wilson is dead, Fnord.

Robert Anton Wilson reached escape velocity on the binary date 0111

Hail eris. Praise Bob.

2 comments January 25th, 2007

New year, new look….

Well, January 07 is almost done and this is my first post of the new year.

I'm now running the Flash Team over at Endemol Uk. The nice people who brought you Big Brother and Deal or No Deal. I'm very busy looking after things there, but I hope in the coming months of 2007 I'll have a good few things to talk about and report on.

One of the area's I'm particularly focusing on these days is production work flow, from project planning all the way to code standards and development methodologies. So no doubt I'll be writing about that a fair bit.

Also I'm really hoping to get some work done on Badgr, the little Flickr gizmo that could. This is going to be FlashPlayer9 and AS3.0 based which is going to be fun.

I hope everyone out there is having a great start to the new year.

Add comment January 21st, 2007

Why would you get a “job”

Many people are still working as employees, a situation which I always find a little mystifying, it’s been over 14 years since I worked as a full time employee, and having worked as a freelancer, contractor and self-employed business owner over those years I still haven’t exploited all the possible ways I could earn money.

Steve Palvina, has posted a lovely list of reasons why you should never take a full-time job, and even though it does get a pretty woolly at times, it’s still a good read…

Check it out…

1 comment November 17th, 2006