5.1 sound on the iMac

Maybe it’s just me being dumb, but I’ve yet to find a way to get 5.1 sound out of the iMac. I expected to find lots of USB or even FireWire sound cards out there but none seemed to support the Mac.

Enter the Firewave from Griffin. A shame it is not yet available.

This is exactly what I wanted: a way to use my current 5.1 speaker setup (which I’m wasting on my PC at home since it became only a server) on my iMac G5 for my gaming pleasure.

Kudos to Melo for finding it.

.plan for the weekend

After the holiday season’s echoes have finally died down I’m in for a full weekend now.

First off there will be a good old coding marathon. I’m just so incredibly far behind on schedule for a project I have, it is just pornographic. The fact that the customer isn’t all that mad about it doesn’t even make it any better. I’m mad enough as it is.

Then there’s the weblog. I’ll finish up the transition to MT3 this weekend for sure.

This should keep me well occupied for the next two days.

Update: One more thing I have to do: get plenty of sleep. I have been kind of lacking it lately and today’s splitting headache must be a product of that. Please don’t talk so loud.