Okay, I just got off the phone with FedEx. According to them, my monitor is on it’s way and should be delivered sometime this morning. It’s amazing that I’m even awake now. Considering I went to sleep at 5AM, I’m shocked hat I’m up now (at 9:30AM) ] at all, but it will be worth it if the monitor comes. Knock on Wood, I leave for work at 1:30 PM. Hopefully it’ll come before that. Way before that so I have a chance toplay with it!
Author Archives: jaypoc
Gimme your digits!
It’s been 5 days or so and I STILL can’t find my cellphone. If you havent heard from me in a while, It may be because I don’t have your number anymore. If I had your number and havent talked to you in a week or so, give me a call at home (or on the Hot-line… 516-390-7191… and leave a message) so I can get your number again!
Ups and Downs
You can imagine my excitement when I recieved the email saying that the Touchscreen VGA monitor for my car was shpiped. You can imagine the expression on my face that showed the estimated delivery date as the day after I got the email (yes… 3-day International Delivery)
You can imagine my dissapointment to find out the damn thing never cleared customs and was sent back to the sender. WTF! Now I definitely won’t have it until next week. I was looking foward to installing it tomorrow. 🙁
CyberDriving!
I’m getting tired of driving with the laptop open on the seat next to me. Plus, it makes it extremely difficult to have passengers with the rediculous wiring jumble on the floor and passenger seat when I have all my PC equipment set up in the car. I’ve taken on a new project. The Jaypoc CarPC!
I’ve ordered an 8″ Touch Screen VGA monitor made by a company called Lilliput Electronics. eBay had some good deals on the display at just uder $300 shipped. I got my FedEx confirmation today, so I should have the monitor by the end of the week. I’ve spent some time researching software and found quite a few “CarPC” front-ends to give my CarPC an authentic mobile system look and feel.
For the meantime, My laptop will serve as the brains for the CarPC. Once I work out some of the kinks, I’ll build a dedicated box for the car itself. Anyone who’s seen my room knows that I have the extra computers laying around. It shouldn’t take long to put together a working PC. Who knows. Maybe I’ll even invest in a new mini-itx system or even one of the nifty in-dash PC systems they make now. (Yes, There’s whole computers that will fit in your dash in place of a radio!)….Maybe I’ll replace my radio with a CarPC system altogether…
Okay, I doubt that. But it’ll be fun!
Plans include:
….and who knows what else I’ll think of.
Gaim On!
No, Thats not a typo! I’ve just switched to the Instant Messaging client, GAIM. Why?
- It looks like AIM
- it has tabbed browsing like DeadAIM
- it supports the AIM, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ networks
- it has support for other chat networks as well (IRC, Jabber, etc..)
- It was FREE 🙂
It seems pretty cool so far. I’ll keep people posted as to whether or not it works out. If you want to give it a try, check out the Gaim web-site.