Mac OSX Tiger r0x0rs your s0x0rs haha. That’s mplayer on OSX right there. Playing Josie and the Pussycats…it’s a kind of funny movie :) If you are having speed troubles with playing XviD on your mac, try compiling MPlayer from source . It worked for me. Was jumpy before, now plays smooth!
By the way, iBook deconstruction makes you lose screws!

Written on December 29th, 2005 , Uncategorized

Altered the quick links corner to look more respectable. Also fixed the font in the quick links and resized it to be less obtrusive. In future I will probably replace it it with some sort of drop down box…save space.

Written on December 15th, 2005 , Uncategorized

Haha read this on /. at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/21/2310236. Thought it was reasonably accurate & humorous, so I posted it here -

Err.. The myth of ‘Windows is Easy to Install’ must be crushed.

Let me illuminate the joys of installing Windows 2000 server.

Boot of of CD-Rom
Wait for drivers to load ~ 5 min
Partition Drive
Reboot
Wait for drivers to load ~ 5 min
Format Drive
Reboot
Wait for drivers to load ~ 5 min
Choose crap
Wait for Windows to install ~ 10 min
Reboot
Copy cryptic crap off of security sticker
Choose password
Reboot
turn off ‘helpfull’ how to use windoes help thingy
move home-page off of MSN
install SP3 ~ 15 min
reboot
install ie6 ~ 10 min
reboot
move home-page off MSN again.
install “critical updates” ~ 10 min
reboot
install office ~ 5 min
install office updates ~ 10 min
install office critical updates ~5 min
install antivirus ~ 5 min

Written on December 4th, 2005 , Uncategorized

Haha I just broke my DSL modem. Fried the firmware ;)
DLink DSL-504G – SNMP is broken in the latest couple of revisions (B18_ I think). So I went to downgrade. Now it’s been upgraded into a non-functional DSL-504G…YAY NOW I CAN RMA IT!!!!
/me hate DLink.

Written on December 1st, 2005 , Uncategorized

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