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Thin Sound At Long Last

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The Problem

We’ve had a “problem” with our LTSP suite – the thin clients we use in our office haven’t been playing the sound from Youtube videos. I don’t really pay much heed to problems with proprietary software issues. “It’s broken because its proprietary” is my usual response. In addition, the idea of enabling a company that I want to be productive to watch (and actually listen) to stuff on Internet’s own brain candy gogglebox doesn’t seem a good idea. We needed it for a client though, so I did it. Continue reading →

Daylight Cinema

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One of the reason I started this blog was that I realized some of the things I do might be fairly interesting to some, the daylight cinema was one project I thought worthy.

Last year I got together a portable sound system made out of off the shelf components, 12v battery, inverter, MP3 player and a set of 2.1 computer speakers. It’s been invaluable for getting people dancing out in the street over the past 2 years or so.  It can still do about 4-5 hours of continuous music, loud for 20 people to listen/dance to.

Then, this year I got a Pixel Qi screen and replaced the screen in a Samsung N220 Plus laptop with it. This screen is amazing, Continue reading →