Today I got a small box in the post containing an obsolete iPaq I bought off eBay for 50 bucks. I’m expecting another one next week. These are my Windows Mobile 2002 and 2003 test devices, to allow me to get Mandriva’s WM2002/2003 sync support into line with the WM5+ support I already worked on [...]
Today I was upgrading my HTPC, which turned into a predictably painful experience. I’m upgrading from an Athlon XP 2500+ to a Pentium D 2180, adding a spiffy GeForce 9600GT, and three 500GB hard disks to form a RAID5 array.
So I get all the stuff home and realize the motherboard I bought only has two [...]
Yes, well, it’s not nice to whine, but…check this out. That’s the most important news in the Linux world from the last week, according to Slashdot.
Notice anything missing, perhaps?
Yep, according to Slashdot, a preview release of Granular Linux, a vague Gartner report on the future of open source, Red Hat sending out a press release [...]
So, sod major new distribution releases and anniversaries and all that malarkey - I hit a far more important milestone yesterday:
08 70 X X 9/ 7/ X X X 72 186
boo yah. next stop, 200!
Some of you probably noticed I haven’t been around as much as usual this week. Been doing some major furniture rearrangement here at Monkey Central, so now I have my own desk in a corner of the living room and my feet aren’t being warmed by the rear vent of my server machine and cramped [...]
Just idly browsing through IGN, noticed a rather interesting juxtaposition. There’s a review of Bubble Bobble, which just came out as a downloadable for the Wii. This is notable because it’s written in a way which assumes no prior knowledge of the game. Many of the reviews of these ports of old arcade titles are [...]
I’m currently listening to an episode of The Goon Show from 1956, and was amused to note that the stock sound effects they used for gunfire were exactly the same ones used in an episode of Red Dwarf in 1993 (Gunmen Of The Apocalypse). It seems the BBC sound library never throws *anything* away.
So I just got a new phone. My contract with Fido was up, and I was just going to let it go and stick with my V360 till the Neo1973 is available in a really usable form, but my boyfriend decided he wanted a 6300 so I extended my contract and got it, and now [...]
A lovely article on a French government agency’s attempt to compel eBay to accept regulation in France, like all other auction houses…
Typical meaningless bullcrap from eBay representative:
“The company said that the regulations should not apply because it is not an auction house, just a facilitator. “EBay has invented a new way of buying and selling, [...]
Still playing Super Mario Galaxy and enjoying the hell out of it. I’m up around 90 stars now and still working through the final hub. I just ‘unlocked’ the red stars in the hub world but I’m not sure if they’re supposed to be added as extra stages in some galaxies yet, or what (it’s [...]