GeekApproach

By now I think you’ve figured out that I’m a total geek. I have 4 machines at my disposal: a beefy oct-core Intel i7 920 with 6 gigs of RAM and 2.5 TB of hard drive space, a Shuttle designed set-top box that lets me watch Hulu and my Matroska files at the living room, my work laptop which is an aging Dell Inspiron, and my Hackintosh; a Dell Mini 9 with Mac OS X on it. We could also count the iPhone and the iPod Touch, but I count those as dev and secondary devices. Oh and that WinMo phone I have too…

Jebus. Anyway, I figured I’d start installing Windows 7 tonight on the machine that I could afford to be without for a few days which is the set-top. I’ve been running the build 7064 which was the RC candidate for free on the box for a while. I really hope they fixed the error with the Realtek HD Audio ports as I’d really like to get my TOSLINK audio connection going again at the TV. I’ve been employing a USB DSP– a Plantronics dongle that while sounds good, really makes my living room setup kinda look ugly.

I’m hoping to do the work laptop, and maybe the primary PC this weekend. I just hate being down machines– I keep getting freaked out that I’ll be unable to use the machines or that something extra horrible will happen.