Best Buy has joined the fray of retailers offering HD DVD early adopters compensation after Toshiba abandoned the HD DVD format. Best Buy will send a complimentary $50 Best Buy gift card for each HD DVD player you purchased from Best Buy before February 23, 2008. The qualifying HD DVD players are Toshiba HD-A1, HD-A2, [...]

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I am very disappointed to hear that CBS has decided to cancel Jericho. There are only about three television shows that I watch on a regular basis, and Jericho is one of them. I knew that this week’s episode was a finale, but I was under the impression that it was simply a “season” finale, [...]

I just watched the trailer for the new The Incredible Hulk. Edward Norton is Bruce Banner. I have to say it looks pretty good. I wasn’t completely impressed by the previous Hulk movie that was directed by Ang Lee. The cast of the new movie looks pretty good — Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, [...]

I switched from Ubuntu Linux on my PS3 to Yellow Dog Linux (YDL). You may wonder why? I don’t have any good reasons. It was basically just a matter of taking YDL for a test drive. Saturday I downloaded the 3.7GB ISO of YDL 6.0. The YDL installation was a bit simpler than the Ubuntu installation, [...]

I came across this interesting device that looks very much like a Mac mini, but it runs Linux and comes pre-installed with a BitTorrent client. It is called Myka, and it can be configured with an 80GB, 160GB, or 500GB internal drive, WiFi 802.11g, ethernet, HDMI, Composite, S-video, SPDIF, and USB. The video specs include: MPEG-2 [...]

The Playstation 3 Blu-ray remote that I ordered arrived today. Now, I can watch movies on the PS3 without having to fumble around with the SIXAXIS controller. I started a movie over the other day while I was trying to rewind. Aggravating! The cool thing about this remote compared to most home media remotes is that [...]

This may be old news for some, but it was the first time I saw this video. I am truly amazed. This is a quadruped robot named “Big Dog” developed by Boston Dynamics intended to act as a pack mule for soldiers traversing terrain where regular vehicles cannot travel. The balance and error-correction is almost [...]

I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my PS3 using these instructions: http://psubuntu.com/installation-instructions/ The installation was simple enough. I simply followed the on-screen instructions. There were a few problems though. My PS3’s internal wireless connection does not seem to be recognized. When I go to setup the network with a Manual Configuration, the only options are Wired and Modem. [...]

For those of you HD DVD early adopters who feel cheated by Toshiba giving up on the format, Circuit City is offering a limited time extension to their refund policy for HD DVD players. I bought a first-generation HD DVD player. Can I get a refund? Toshiba is not currently planning to make refunds available to early [...]