Well, it’s that time of the year again. Time to be nice to all people you know (or was that Xmas?)
Quote of the Year:
[Guild] [Massacre]: The bitch told me to stop wow-ing for valentine, I told her to fuck off.
Ahhh, what a great initiative, that valentine’s day!
Anyhow, happy valentine’s day, Helene!
Yes, it’s here, finally!
A 355 Mb patch, downloaded over poor UMTS/3G at school and in the train… Took a while, but it’s finally installed.
Some nice few features, like the fact you can now remove the semi-transparent effect on the menu bar (makes it nicer). They also added some nice stacks enhancements.
A Time Machine icon is added in the menu bar too, just too bad you can’t make it just pop-up when it is actually backing up. I like keeping my menu bar clean. ;)
Well, it had to happen…
Yesterday evening two of our linux boxes were exploited. I had to try it out for myself; and yes, it really does work. :| Booted up my Ubuntu in Parallels, installed build-essential & ran that program!
sudo apt-get install build-essential
gcc what-ever-the-file-name-is.c
./a.out
This is what it looks like:
My-oh-my… I’m pretty sure this doesn’t require any more explanations ;)
EyeTV is a cool application that let’s you watch TV on your Mac. I happen to have the “lite” version, because it was significantly cheaper than the other version.
The cool thing is, you can easily record films or TV episodes with it, but with this version, there is no way to export it to a iMovie project, or to play the recording in a QuickTime based application.
When recording, it creates a folder “Live Recording - $date $time.eyetv”. And when double clicking it, it will open EyeTV.
As you probably know, the MagSafe adapter is a great invention. Someone trips over your power cord, and the connector pops off.
And if you think “well, cool, but won’t happen, a normal connector won’t break your notebook” you’re very wrong.
A few months ago, at school, during courses, someone tripped over my Powerbook’s power cord, and pulled everything off the table. This resulted in complete data loss + broken adapter + banana-looking case; 926 EUR repairing costs (Yes, this is when I dediced the get myself a Macbook (Pro), and the good thing was that Leopard was about to be released).
I finally got a reply from the Parallels support team. After using the alternate Parallels installer it finally works again! Even after rebooting Mac! joy
Before trying to run Vista/Bootcamp through Parallels again, I’m waiting till the end of my exams (Thursday). Don’t want to blow up my Windows install again when I’m in desperate need of it. ;)
As usual with Parallels, creating/installing a new OS isn’t easy. Wether it crashes or you get a bunch of errors, you’re always up for a day full of fun!
While checking the logs of one of my websites I noticed something rather weird.
Some person (65.210.123.237) with User-Agent/browser “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; ……/1.0 )” was downloading all files from my website. Totally ignoring robots.txt and requesting pages without providing a referral.
This seemed quite odd and didn’t seem to be a decent/real search robot. It kept requesting files every 3-4 seconds for about one hour. Decent search bots try to spread the load over a few minutes, and wouldn’t request about 1000 files (1.6 Gb) at once.
I recently got my hands on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
I must honestly say I really enjoyed the singleplayer. Great action, nice graphics, damn exciting maps, cool effects, nice movies, cool story, …
The only big downside was how short it was. After not even 2 days (so, around 4-5 hours of gaming) I completed it. I was just getting warmed up, finally mastered all controls, felt a small addiction coming up, when suddenly I saw the credits flashing over my screen… That day, will be remembered as a sad day. :(
From the (very) few things I watch on TV, I believe it’s That ’70s Show I enjoy most. It’s one of the only (comedy) shows I can just keep watching to. Yes, 24 and Lost aren’t too bad either (and, well, it’s not really comedy, is it?), but the last seasons have been going downwards and all tension is gone. That ’70s Show is different and hasn’t really changed over the years, it still makes me grin for about 25 minutes each day I manage to watch it.
Whilst reading over “Chapter I: The Internet” in my Hypermedia course; I couldn’t help noticing a few things.
I quote: