Quickest way to mount accessories to an AR-15?
Posted by KaosX in Uncategorized on August 29, 2009
I’ve been looking for a set of bolt-on rails for my AR-15 for a while now but none have really been exactly what I’m looking for all in one kit. I needed to mount my Surefire light that’s in a Larue LT-606 and I also needed a stable platform for my VFG.
Today I finally found what I was looking for!
Add-A-Rail from Mounting Solution Plus (MSP)
The ADD-A-RAIL SYSTEM is an affordable and easy solution to add rail mounted accessories with out the frustration or the cost of add full railed forearm. ADD-A-RAIL SYSTEM works with factory standard AR-15 A-2 and M4 forearm. Designed to allow use of a detachable rail mounted accessories such as a Surefire flashlights, Harris Bipod or foregrips, or other . ADD-A-RAIL comes in two version and can be used on either TOP/BOTTOM or RIGHT/LEFT side of your forearm.
Mounting Solutions Plus specializes in tactical mounts and gun accessories for professional and competition shooters.
Click Here to learn more.
I’ll be uploading some pics of my setup soon!
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
Posted by KaosX in Video Games on August 21, 2009
This is probably the best dollar - okay - 80 Microsoft Points I ever spent on a single game. It’s a twin stick shooter meaning that you use the left stick to move and the right stick to pick where you’re shooting.
It’s amazingly simple and is quite fun for a buck. You can have up to four offline teammates and I expect that once this gains enough popularity that gameplay over XBL would be forthcoming.
So if you’ve got a spare dollar 80 Microsoft Points I’d suggest trying this one out.
Here’s a video of some gameplay and a link to the live marketplace listing for it so you can queue up the download.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
PS: The lyrics to the opening song in the background are quite funny if you try to pay attention to them.
The “total media” solution - a work in progress.
Posted by KaosX in Computers and Networking on August 21, 2009
I’ve been working on something that I’ve been calling the “total media solution” in my head for a while now. The idea first came to me when I realized that letting a 6 year old organize your DVD collection based on the concept of “the last movie in the DVD player gets stored in the DVD case for what I want to watch now”. While I’m not there yet I’m certainly on the way.
I had some basic requirements for the project:
- All data would be saved to and stored from a server of some sort
- The server would also function as a fileserver for any files.
- Data would need to be accessible by Windows, Linux, Unix and MacOS computers
- Media would need to be able to stream, and transcode if necessary, to an Xbox360
- The server would need to be easily expandable in regards to disk space
Beyond those basic requirements, the details really didn’t matter.
Before I build the server I started testing on my laptop. Media servers for the home don’t generally need a lot of “oomph” but enough to transcode if necessary. I partitioned a section of my hard disk on my laptop and set it aside as the mock server for the time being.
I wanted to solve the Xbox360 puzzle first as that’s the main control point for accessing the media files. There are a few ways to handle this task but they’re all based on the same set of services; Universal Plug and Play (UPnP for short). Windows Media Center and other Windows OS’ provide these by default. Despite NOT wanting to use that I figured I would try it first. It can’t transcode any of the video files I already had staged (ripped copies of Jericho) for this test…so that was out right away. I did a little more research and talked to some guys at work and they suggested Tversity which I had used before (I wasn’t totally new to this stuff, had a modded regular xbox).
Tversity worked fine for me for a while. After some time however I noticed that (likely as a result of running it on a laptop that was coming in and out of hibernation) I was havaing to fiddle with the service to get it to work. Then there came a point when it stopped working altogether. Apparently this is a bug against Windows 7 and Windows Vista OS’ when you run Tversity (32 bit) and the OS is 64bit. That made me lose faith in Tversity and even though my server would likely be 32 bit and would likely be Windows Server 03 (unless I go with Linux in the end) it just rubbed me the wrong way. I talked to one of the Unix/Linux guys here at work and he handles this problem with a UPnP server called “PS3 Media Server” which is free and java based.
Thus far it’s been working splendidly.
I’ll be going into more detail regarding the server in upcoming posts as I now have it fully functional. In those and other upcoming posts I’ll be discussing managing MP3’s, folder structure organization, torrent applications and other like topics.
My current project involves remotely accessing my entire music library from anywhere (specifically work). I’ve got it sort of working now but it’s still not where I want it to be. This one involves some trickery with SSH Tunnels and Linux running on the router at home.