Tech

Instead of purchasing Sacred, just bash your computer with a hammer a few times. You’ll get all the wonderful gameplay, including constant BSODs and random graphics problems, and you’ll save a boatload of cash. I’ve had this digitized turd for no more than an hour and it’s crashed four times.

Honestly, I’m really sick of being an unpaid beta-tester for shyster game companies.

Today I broke two of my own rules: never buy a game unless you’ve played the demo, or unless the game comes from a company known to make pretty decent products [like Blizzard, id, or the UT folks], and never buy anything from CompUSA. Luckily a quick pre-emptive phone call to the manager at CompUSA will keep me from raining hellfire down upon them when they tried to charge me their 2000% “restock fee” or whatever they’re calling it these days.

Wow.

.kkreiger is amazing.

It’s a very nice-looking FPS, and the whole game is less than 100Kb.

No really, the whole game takes up less space than this webpage, and it’s really cool.

Here‘s a Tom’s Hardware article about it.

In case you haven’t heard: Rasterbator is really frickin cool.

Basically, it takes a regular-sized image and inflates it to a giant rasterized pdf mural, made of big dots, spanned across a huge number of regular-sized printed pages.

What a perfectly inappropriate use for company-owned office supplies.

Here’s how to generate and use self-signed certs for use with AIM.

You know, so you can exchange secure, encrypted instant messages with your mom about your sister without risking government spook agencies eavesdropping.

Joseph left voicemail a few days ago: “Circuit City has nice 19″ CRTs for $60 after rebate. Go get one.”

I’ve been wanting to have 2 monitors for a while, since dealing with 2 computers via a USB KVM switch is a hassle, but I’d been stalling for various reasons, including not wanting to disassemble parts of my desk. Still, a $200 monitor for $60 was too good a deal to pass up, so Laura and I sped to Circuit City.

In response to Tara’s PDA question.

I agree with Warren: get a Bluetooth-enabled phone, such as the Sony Ericsson T610. It’s excellent.

I use a tiered ‘mobility’ system:

Tier 1 is the base station, which is my G4. I use iCal and Address Book.app on it. All data entry and long-term calendaring /corrections/should be done here. The data stored here should be held as “true”, over all systems.

Tier 2 is the work station, which is my iBook. I use iCal and Address Book.app on it. I do almost all of my data entry here, and clean it up on the base station. The iBook is a mobile workstation, so I can lug it anywhere, change or create stuff, and eventually sync that data with the base station.

I’ve had some fun playing with the most recent Knoppix Live-CD. It’s a “live” Linux installation on a bootable CD-Rom.

I download the image, burned it to disc, and booted off of it. It autodetected all my hardware and network settings, so within a few minutes I had a very useable desktop, including Mozilla, Gaim, and OpenOffice.

To be fair, my Knoppix session crashed/hung after a few hours, but since it’s all on CD, there’s not much chance for damage.

I’ve always assumed that over the course of a large number of generations of digital copies, data would always get lost or corrupted. I never had any scientific evidence to back up or disprove that assumption until now

Hmm, looks like the same pro-Kerry morons have changed IPs. Seems they’re attacking the old Refer script, at /refer/index.php, using some scumware app by a little fly-by-night company called StarProse.

[I’m pretty sure that one day when the two 18-year-old crank addicts that comprise StarProse were sitting in their momma’s basement, one of them decided that using that there Interwebnet thing was a great way to make some drug money, and was probably more fun than torturing cats or molesting children. Maybe. And they didn’t even have to steal from Mom again! ]

Here’s a hint, Mr. Kerry: If you want to win votes, you’ll police the assclowns at johnkerry.com to keep them from filling up my logfiles with fake referrals.

Not that you had my vote in the first place, you communist swine.

Oh, and look, it’s an AOL IP:
host 172.132.98.191
191.98.132.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer AC8462BF.ipt.aol.com.

Typical.