Spooky.
400-pound boulders in the tops of 80-foot tall trees are spooky.
Hooray for Halloween!
Per this ArsMac thread, Panther features “Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering”.
In plainer terms, the OS defragments HFS+ filesystems automatically, if the files being used are smaller than 20MB.
Be sure to read the thread, for it contains nifty snippets of the actual kernel code, since the core OS, Darwin, is Open Source.
And yeah, if you’ve been living in a cave or something and haven’t already had some Mac fanatic splatter drool on you about it already, Exposé really does rock.
Here’s a reference sheet for the Nextel i60c phones.
Press the following keys: # * menu right-arrow
The unit will then display “TRACE MODE”
Lots of fun stuff listed in Trace Mode.
Ahh, Halloween.
It’s the perfect excuse for horrid color schemes.
In reference to the MT Blacklist thread over at NSLog:
It seems to me that the better way of blocking comment spam would be to use a modified version of Realtime Blackhole Lists.
The downside of RBLs for email have been the fact that if you use them, you must rely solely upon the judgement of their maintainers. There is an implicit trust in the maintainers of the RBL, that they won’t block the entire continent of Asia just because of a few Tawainese spammers. Unfortunately, many RBL maintainers have, in the past, blocked whole major networks, just to “get attention”. This had the effect of wiping out email for enormous chunks of the Internet. Since most webloggers want to encourage commenting, this is not the result we want.
With a RBL-type blocker, bloggers can “pool their resources” of spammy IP addresses and ranges, each gaining protection from ranges that haven’t spammed them yet.
Since the biggest problem with using RBLs is the creeping fear of “I’m trusting my system to vigilante wackos,” I think that a distributed, trust-based system would work better.
For example:
Two MTlogs, Kottnut and BoingFilter, have their blocklists publicly available. As I trust both their maintainers to be mostly sane, I tell my MT to auto-update its blocklist from those two sources.
I can also have MT update its blocklist from Networkgeek, but since I know that the maintainer’s a lunatic who has a fetishistic dislike for the number 216, I can manually comment out the global block for 216.0.0.0/8.
Even better, since my MT would consolidate the blocklist of all three of my source sites, removing duplicate entries and so on, someone who trusted me to not be a crazy person [shh] could have their MT auto-update from my blocklist. And so on across the Internet, until we have a very stable, self-healing “web of trust”.
Granted, this whole concept is very much a Lazyweb idea, and a band-aid patch for MoveableType’s fairly insecure comment scheme, at that. I think it’d be a great addition to an otherwise very nice journaling suite.
Windows users, listen up:
iTunes for Windows is free. It doesn’t cost anything. It will play your existing MP3 files just fine. It will rip your CDs just fine, and you still don’t have to pay a dime to Apple. It’ll keep your MP3s organized, and you still don’t have to pay any money to anyone.
It can also show trippy visual effects when you play your MP3s, and yeah, those effects are free, too.
In fact, the only time you’ll have to pay for anything related to iTunes is if you want to spend $0.99 on a song that you can purchase from the iTunes music store. (That song, incidentally, isn’t an MP3. It’s encoded in a different format –AAC).
Free software, folks.
So what are you waiting for? Go try it. It’s worlds beyond Winamp or Windows Media Player. You’ll be pleasantly suprised.
Battlefield 1942 is yet another example of why I hate buying video games.
My PC isn’t high-end, but an AMD 2600+ with 1GB RAM isn’t too shabby for most games.
Unfortunately, processor speed doesn’t mean so much for a game like BF1942.
Here’s how an average game goes:
“I think I’ll play BF1942.”
Time passes.
“Oh look, Here’s the game startup screen!”
Time passes.
“The unescapable intro movies are over. Now I get to choose a map!”
Time passes.
“The map is loading!”
Time passes.
“I’m joining the game!”
Time passes.
“Wow, I’m finally playing the game!”
BLAM! Sniper round in the head.
Time passes.
“Ok, I’ve respawned, and I’ve got my weapon of choice and I’m ready to …”
The game disappears. Crashes. Gone. Not even an error message.
“Screw this. I’m gonna go read a book.”
