See, the moment I realized that I have two devices with front-facing cameras you just know what came next…
This is the sort of thing which guarantees that I will never be one of the cool kids. Oh well.
Category: Geekery
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MediaMonkey (x 2) + QNAP = Fun
I know, that’s not a mathematically correct subject line. I apologize right up front for this.
The last “big purchase” for my tax money was a QNAP 219p II 2-bay NAS device to replace the aging, slow, finicky Western Digital single-drive NAS. To feed the QNAP I picked up a pair of 3-terabyte Seagate drives. What am I doing with triple the storage?
I’m using it to play music and movies, of course.
Stage One in this project involved synchronizing the living room and bedroom copies of MediaMonkey. You can point the software to a database file on a UNC path and a music library on a UNC path and as long as you don’t go crazy trying to run both copies at once it seems to work. Mind you, it took several tries to clear out the “local” parts of the library on each computer. MediaMonkey hates to let go of a directory once you’ve ever used it as part of your library. Three times I had to clear out the “duplicates” between the two machines. Also, while you can export a playlist to M3U out of the MediaMonkey library just fine, it takes a special add-in script to actually import an M3U.
What was I doing with M3Us? Exporting them, using a text editor to replace the paths, then importing so I’d have both of my “game night” playlists for downstairs and my portable-device sync playlist upstairs, all in the same library. Now I can update the game night playlists from upstairs any time I want. Sweet deal, eh?
Next up: Figuring out how to organize and present TV shows and movies.
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Sufficiently Screened
I have four mobile phones charging on my desk right now. This is part of the impending migration from Service A to Service B for myself, Kylanath and the rugrats.
My “current” phone is also perched on the desk, as per normal when I’m not out-and-about.
That’s five mobile phones on one desk.
Okay, that seems excessive. It’s also temporary, so while I’m amused at this little pile of technology on display I also know that this, too, shall pass. There’s nothing to worry about. I’m not that geeky…
Wait. In my backpack you’ll find one 10″ full tablet and a Nook Color. (And a camera.)
And in this bedroom there are two full computers plus my laptop.
…They say that the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Ahem.
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Aw, dagnabbit.
So much for once-per-week posting.
I utterly, completely, and totally missed last week. Sorry about that. It was busy! Work was nuts! I got my tax refunds and spent lots of money! The fruits of that spending arrive today (probably)!
What did I get? A QNAP 219p II home NAS device with a pair of 3-terabyte Seagate drives to fill it, and… new phones for everybody. My first smartphone in many years, Kylanath’s first full-on smartphone, plus new feature phones for the kids. It’s going to be a fun week getting all that set up, and I’m sleepless with excitement about it.
No, really. I’ve been so keyed up for the last few days that my insomnia has run rampant. Ugh.
At any rate. That’s the news, and there’ll be more to come as things progress. And hey, I’m taking Thursday & Friday off from work to celebrate my impending forty-first natal anniversary, so there’s that…
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Eleven Years Of Grey Duck Dot Net
I registered this domain eleven years ago today.
Time flies when you’re… doing whatever it is you do when you start up a blog, then partially abandon it several years later, eh?
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I’m the only one who’ll notice.
When building the comic, sometimes I fret about the fact that I don’t have a set style guide for things like (let’s say) the struts that connect word balloons within a comic panel. They tend to come out in varying widths and not always aligned perfectly. Shouldn’t I set some rules, make sure everything is uniform and neat and tidy?
Then I remember that this is just a silly webcomic read by maybe thirty people around the world (on a good day) and I should just relax…