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Rants, thoughts, doodles, and meanderings — updated on a semi regular basis, providing I’m able to.
When one planet isnt enough....
Google, in its never ending conquest, has now started Google Mars. Really kinda cool to be able to zoom in and see Mars like that. Also, hopefully it means that decent DEM maps are available, so…
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LCD info
Ok, some of you might know that lately I've been working on a LCD display so I can be easily notified when someone is trying to get a hold of me and I cannot see the item on the screen. One thing I…
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iTunes and iPod sales.
Holy crap. Apple has 80% of online music sales, 90% hard drive based MP3 player sales, and 49% of flash based MP3 player sales. Thats a fucking lot!
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w00tar!
Just got a Belkin Parallel to USB adapter (F5U002 for those interested), and it works for controlling my vinyl plotter. I havent tried it under Linux or OSX yet, but thats still good results, since…
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Sound problem with flash
One thing I've noticed that on my mac, every once in a while, after a reboot, Flash refuses to play sounds. Well, found out a way to get it working is if you start up Garageband, and close it out, it…
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Optimus Mini 3
Released the other day was photos of the Optimus Mini 3 by Art Lebedev studios. 3 button OLED controller with each button being 32mm by 32mm. Has alot of cool opertunities. Can be preordered starting…
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Optimus
I know this has been talked about before, but for those who haven't seen it, the Optimus keyboard use OLED displays in each of the keys, and in a nice aluminum shell. Well, looks like February it'll…
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Hell no like...
Things have been rather fucked around here. Busting ass working on computers, trying to get crimmus shit taken care of, problems with friends, etc.
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Subject Goes here
Things have been a bit screwy here. Earlier this week net connection was cut, because they thought I was using too much bandwidth (even though I had it capped at 20k max upstream). Got most of the…
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MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I just dropped the new DVDRW into my mini. The case was a bitch to remove.
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Reporting for duty!
Friday went over to Eric's, worked on his computer and got his router fixed. After that went with Katherine and saw Split Lip Rayfield and Reverend Horton Heat. Concert kicked ass. It was a private…
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Me again...
Been reading a book from the Hitchhiker's series a day lately. Really good books.
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Hello...
The last week or so with the Mac have been nice. It runs smoothly, hasn't given any fits, and does exactly what I want without complaints. Also, I got a copy of REALbasic 5.5 Pro so I can program…
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Other news
Last night power kicked off, and when I powered things back on this morning, the OTES fan on monstershit had gone out. Abit chooses shitty fans...
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This just in..
If you guys were wondering why you couldnt get a hold of me this weekend, thats because I wasn't home. Went down to Branson with my Uncle Jay to visit some family. Was quite a bit of fun.
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I... am a mac user
After years of hating the old Macs (namely because of the shitty OS7 based ones at my middle school), I've ordered a mac. Tired with my machine for doing the vector stuff being crap, I've decided to…
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Oooga chucka
Ok, not been good around here lately. Wes' powersupply died, so he borrowed the one from my plotter machine, his replacement that came in is defective, the vaio laptop died midprint on the plotter,…
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Meh....
Got a gig stick of ram, same speed and type as what I had before, but for some reason its not compatable with the 512 I had previously. Oh well, still an upgrade.
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Ugh
Sorry I wasnt around last few days, havent had a connection really since Sunday. On the plus side, got Funkyshit moved over to a static IP, and I think it took this time.
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SR3 closer to release
Today did more work on SR3. Got all the wheels converted, working on cars. Also, a new guy, Trancos, submitted some killer code that fixed the camera bug. Sometime this weekend, we should have the…
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IP problems
Ok, for some reason, after a couple days of not having IP issues, damn router, not at the scheduled time for IP renewal, gave a new IP for funkyshit. To try combat this I tried switching to the…
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Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I am angry.
Last few months been working on a new page for my car club in ASP because they dropped support for PHP and such, and now when I am about to switch from the old to the new, I find out in the server…
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ACK!
Its not been a good time for computers. Yesterday, was setting up my vaio laptop for running the plotter, and the hard drive died. Start to get a spare machine running to take its place, and the BIOS…
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