Monday, April 20, 2009

Murdered Paint and what is WMC ?

Time has come to Murder my motorcycle and that is a good thing. Murder is a paint and finish style which is becoming all the rage here in Los Angeles.

The style, includes a paint which looks like Black Primer or DULL Flat Black paint but in addition all chrome and logos are either removed or painted as well. The more I look at a the few cars and motorcycles I have seen murdered I cant even truly understand my attraction to it, but I can tell you something about the style does catch my eye.
Here a are a few samples.



The paint most importantly is DULL, which historically has been very hard to make dull and durable, but recent technical advances in paint systems and flat clear coats a true flat or suede type finish, durable enough for auto coats are becoming available.
Ill post some pictures of my GPZ, once I get it back from the shop Murdered.

What is WMC . well thats Windows Media Center.. Its been about 4 years since I first got a media player and my television watching habits were forever changed. It was time for an upgrade so I moved from a two part system (media player and seperate file server) to a desktop pc tricked out to be a media player and file server and torrent downloader all in one package.

Bob-tv is the name of the new monster, and some of the specs include
  • Quad Core processor
  • 4 gigs of ram
  • Vista Ultimate with Windows Media Center
  • A Hack to allow for a second concurrent user (to download torrents)
  • Native HDMI output for pure HD TV
  • Native Optical Audio out for 5.1 sound though my sound system.
  • WMC remote to allow the user to control the media player with a remote which looks and acts just like any cable box controller
  • Silverstone case which looks like just another receiver next to my Harmon Kardon
I can now log into the box without the main screen being used to download whatever torrents I need. The meda center is logged in as the primary user and except for knowing where to look for video files each "user" does not even know the other is logged in.

WMC can play any of the new .264 type files, even 1080 hd resolution. In a few weeks Ill tell you know I like it vs my old IO data- but from what I can tell now.. Its a very good upgrade.

Bob

posted by Bob Lee @ 6:00 PM

3 Comments:

At 7:36 PM , Blogger twist said...

Glad you like the upgrade :)

 
At 7:35 AM , Blogger Larry said...

Obviously, many still are looking to unlock their inner Johnny Cash.

 
At 7:59 AM , Blogger David Lee said...

uggg Lee....... I don't get this new black? looks like a primer coat.... Janet um david made me do that......

 

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