Okay, I've been using this for quite a while now, but figured it should be useful for those who aren't me. I'm currently using a Unicomp Customizer 104 key keyboard at work, and home. These keyboards do not have media keys on them, which is fine since I rarely use anything other than the volume controls on them.

There is a program called AutoHotKey that can run scripts based on various keyboard inputs, or hotkey combinations. I'm using the script below to match the Super/Windows key + [, ] and \ to volume down, up and mute respectively.

;; Map WIN + [ to Volume Down
#[::Send {Volume_Down 2}

;; Map WIN + ] to Volume Up
#]::Send {Volume_Up 2}

;; Map WIN + \ to toggle mute
#\::Send {Volume_Mute}

I should state that I am not affiliated with either Unicomp or Autohotkey. This is because it was helpful to me, and took a while to find this, and figured it would be helpful to others as well.

Okay, it's a TV, but I'm only using it as a montitor.  It's currently connected to my computer via DVI-to-HDMI and works pretty well.  I'd been thinking about doing this since the 32" LCD TV's with 1080p started getting pretty reasonable in price.  It doesn't have the super resolutions of some computer monitors, but 1920x1080 is enough for me to work with, and this way the image is larger, instead of most things just being rendered wrong, or stupidly small, at least for now.  I went with a 42" LG (Model 42LH50) display.

For comparison's sake, that is a Unicomp Customizer 104 keyboard (IBM Model M Style).  The thing is freakishly huge, and I love it.

A couple weeks ago I got an MSI Wind Barebones, shoved 2gb of ram, a dvdrw, and an 80gb sata drive I had laying around.  I ran it with Linux + XBMC for a while, and today tried setting it up as a Hackintosh, just to see if it would work.  More...