Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2006
The bike shop had a sale today and I couldn’t resist buying a set of Look Keo Sprint pedals at a deep discount. I was using Shimano SPD pedals on my road bike, and they were frustrating if not dangerous things. 3/4s of the time when I tried to step into them in a hurry, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2006
Stupid fucking PC hardware and Windows. This is a clear reminder of why I’m so happy with my Macs. So here I am trying to install a Linksys 802.1G and a gigabit ethernet adapter into my Win2k PC. Pop in the CD, let it do its thing, turn it off, shove in the adapter and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2006
At work I left my IBP running memtestosx. I learned that at a certain point, it would spontaneously reboot with the 1 GB stick in. I went up to Fry’s and exchanged it for another. Sat out in the parking lot, put in the new memory and ran memtestosx right then and there. It completed […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2006
I have some sort of cancer infecting my Apples that’s making me nervous. I think the battle of PowerPC vs Intel is happening on my kitchen counter. I reinstalled everything on my IBP. Now I’m having some sort of occasional spontaneous reboot problem that happens regardless of what I’m doing. On a whim, I stuck […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2006
Well, that was quick. I’ve already lost all the data on my IntelBook Pro. I spent a good chunk of last night and this morning tracking down my kernel panics and reading through Apple kernel development docs to figure it out. So far I had decided they had to be related to DivX and Xvid, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2006
I downloaded a nightly build of Firefox (Deerpark) and VLC compiled for Intel. Deerpark is a huge improvement, it has a more responsive interface and snappy when it comes to rendering pages. VLC, both the PowerPC and nightly Intel build, on the other hand has crashed OS X so many times tonight. It seems to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2006
I finally broke down and bought an IntelBookPro (a/k/a MacBackPro, what a horrible name) on Thursday. I felt very smug walking into the Apple store, feeling as if they should roll out the red carpet as I walked straight to the service desk to order it. After picking up my booty, I sneered at all […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2006
Fucking-A, I finally fixed my Surreal64 emulator problem on my Xbox. I kept using a bogus Media Path in my Surreal.ini file that I thought was right. Thirty pages into the Surreal64 help thread on Xbox-scene somebody posts “don’t change the path to your media files or Surreal won’t have a GUI to load!” Sure […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 19th, 2006
So I managed to drag Courtney to the top of Enchanted Rock. A thick fog had set in over hill country which made for some interesting scenery on the rock. On the way down, I didn’t curve around enough and got us going down the wrong side of the rock. We wound up going down […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2006
I must say, shaved legs really do make cleaning wounds and dealing with adhesive dressing much less painful. Less damned hair to pull out by its roots!
