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Catching Up
Posted on February 28th, 2009 8 commentsIn yesterday’s blog, I attempted to use Fliggo.com’s service. From comments back, it appears to work when it wants to. I also noticed that while I had uploaded two skits/videos, one involving David Letterman, and one an advertisement for vitamins for the older set which worked when I uploaded them, all of a sudden, with no notification, were “broken.” For these reasons, Fliggo.com is something to use with care and perhaps “Not ready for prime time.” We’ll see.
The Garmin 760 I ordered based on ENTR200 student’s recommendations arrived, and yesterday I fired it up. Garmin provided one free map update to their 2009 version which was a 1.2 terabyte download, and took some time to install. But it’s good to go. I also purchased a leather case and no-scar mounting bracket for it. So far so good. I’ll run a test on it shortly.
I have all of the components for our Home Theater system on order or in hand. Here’s what I ended up with:
- A 42″ Vizio 1080P 4-HDMI port full HD LCD TV from Sam’s
- A Logitech diNovo Mini combination keyboard/mouse from eBay
- Decided to assemble the HTPC from parts, mainly from Newegg consisting of:
- Asus P2 Series P2-M3A3200 AMD Black Barebones case/powersupply/motherboard with native HDMI (see pic)
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 5050e Brisband 2.6 GHz dual-core processor
- 2X2GB DDR2 SDRAM/800
- Lite-On 22x DVD SATA drive
- Samsung 1 terabyte SATA hard drive (parts total cost about $425)
- Operating system – probably Windows 7 and/or Ubuntu 8.10
For grins and to give Fliggo.com one more chance, I have embedded a simulation of Sully’s Hudson River flight at bottom. (Thanks Jerry!) Hank
8 responses to “Catching Up”
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Jim Smith February 28th, 2009 at 11:09
There is a version of ubuntu made for media centers called mythbuntu. I installed it in VMWare on my macbook pro once to check it out, but all my media was on my external HD and I didn’t really feel like figuring out how to get VMware to properly share it… It had a nice interface and looked like it worked pretty well but can’t really say for sure.
Good choice with the build your own!
Jim
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Devarshi Patel February 28th, 2009 at 17:52
There is a popular debate over which seat in the plane is safest? rear, front. near the wings, near the exits?
good luck
999
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Amanda Jones February 28th, 2009 at 19:53
The Fliggo.com has worked just fine for me every time I have clicked the link or pushed play. I like that it isn’t automatically playing while you read the rest of the page. And that flight was amazing. It just goes to show what people can do when they keep a level head and actually use what they have been taught and have experienced.
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Kelsey Cataldo February 28th, 2009 at 21:16
wow as a pilot, that is very good to stay as calm as possible especially in a situation like that i’m impressed..i don’t know if i were in that situtation i could do that, but i guess if u knew u had to be to save 155 people then u’d make urself be calm. This fliggo is amazing how it tracked/documented everything to the last detail the FAA must really like this
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Margaret Kendrick February 28th, 2009 at 22:58
Wow, that video was pretty interesting! I still can’t believe that it was successful. On another note, you’re home theater system sounds pretty awesome. I can’t wait to get a home system. Enjoy!
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Shaun Greene February 28th, 2009 at 23:34
The maps are a 1.2 terabyte download? Do they give you places to store that, or can you download only the parts you want?
Also, cool video. The air traffic controller didn’t quite understand how desperate the situation was, but the pilot did very well.
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Spencer McKee March 1st, 2009 at 01:39
cool video. The home theater system sounds pretty impressive.
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Linda Feeser March 1st, 2009 at 07:30
Regarding Shaun’s question about maps, you are required to download the whole deal, and install same. You are NOT given a choice of/for anything. Hank
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