Uh, number 3 comes out pretty soon. It’s supposed to look amazing, and funny enough, it’s still supposed to run fine on a 1.4 Ghz with a GeForce 3. I’ve heard 20-40 fps, depending on your setup. Which is playable.
And I still haven’t put together the new machine, I haven’t even ordered the parts yet. I really don’t know what I’m waiting for. Maybe I’m waiting for Half Life 2.
Either way, I should get an upgrade. I feel it’s time for a media box, or something to that effect.
I just upgraded to a g network at my apartment for wireless. Wireless b boys, you need to just step off. I don’t need your sucka bandwidth limitations holding me back from 54 mbps. I picked up the unfortunately named Aiport Extreme Base Station with the academic pricing ($20 off) and plugged it into my existing network.
But seriously, installation was basically a non issue after I threw out a dead LAN Cable. I ran the configuration utility and I was up and running a WPA enabled, closed network, with MAC address filtering. Which was more than I could say about the Linksys wireless router / WAP combo.
Never could get all three running on that thing. It seemed like I could only pick two. Even then, it was dicey just looking for the network.
Now, I’m off to pick up some adhesive hooks, since I’m going to be running the cable for this base station along the ceiling.
On with the quote:
Kierra: The internet is a scary, scary place.
PraxisLoki: You just now realized this?
Kierra: Yes, when I googled “Education, Job openings, Highschool, and English” and the first link was like “Hott underaggg3d grrls 4 u!”
The saddest part is that I’m not sure that what she found was in English.
On the other hand, if you put “blindfolded” in, the first link is something (at least for fans of the Nintendo Entertainment System) that isn’t porn.
And then for the second link, you get porn.
Signal. . . To noise. . .
Have you seen the blogger craziness? Templates, comments.
I have the feeling that Google/Blogger is trying to create a community similar to the Live Journal folks. They have a ways to go, although I was playing around in the “edit profile” section of blogger and there are more than a few features that mimic things that LJ has been doing for a while. You can put interests into a text field and then they become hotlinks in your profile that link you up with other users. Crazy. I remember when I used to edit the HTML by hand and just post the index. On occasion, I’d remember to stick it in a non searchable archive, which was just a renamed index.html file.
Now I’m thinking about using one of their templates, or at least tweaking one into something that I’d like, and enabling comments for registered blogger users.
With my use of Gmail, I’m starting to feel like I’m being watched by a single, monolithic corporate entity that feeds on text.
Part of me rejects this community building, and wants to emigrate to some homebrew blogging application. The other part really likes the fruity filling new features. Going corporate and joining “the family” certainly appears to have its benefits.
In the interest of “taking one for the team,” I’ve installed a service pack against my (and others’s) better judgment. I’ve decided to install on my primary work machine. This is so that I’ll have a vested interest in fixing anything I find broken.
So, I’ve installed the MS XP SP 2 RC 2, and so far, other than getting a slight rash from acronym overexposure, the machine appears to be doing okay. Nothing’s broken yet.
Installation was pretty easy, and before you can hit ctrl+alt+del to log in, it asks you if you want to run the new firewall. I, of course, said “Yes.”
It’s like XP has a bit of ZoneAlarm integrated into the OS, and it asks for permission when a program attempts to access the internet. Those of us who have been running ZoneAlarm for years will find this action familiar, although from first glance it’s not as robust as Zone Labs’s product.
You’ll have a few hiccups when you try to use aim, or update your antivirus software, but otherwise, so far, it’s been a fairly transparent experience. Basically, a popup window will come up and ask you to block or unblock programs that attempt any sort of communication outside your computer. You can say, “block,” “unblock,” or the ever popular, “Ask me later.”
In the control panel, there are a few bits where you can tweak the firewall. You can add programs that are exempt from the firewall’s tender iron grip, (Hello, WarCraft III) allowing them to accept incoming connections. You can also have windows create a log file for troubleshooting, although how useful that will be has yet to be seen.
What’s missing is a “lockdown” button. I, for one, would like the option to block all incoming and outgoing traffic.
I don’t know what I would do with such a button, but I would probably hotwire it to a large red button. And then I’d put a plastic cover on it with a hinge to prevent accidentally tripping it. Then I’d probably want a siren attached to the hinge that blares the “red alert” noise from Star Trek when I open it.
Also missing are any options to “Set phasers to stun,” and “Perform Picard maneuver.”