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Computing / Vista Thoughts
« on: December 23, 2007, 11:06:37 am »
So here I sit with my Vista Basic (no Aero interface) powered laptop - I currently have the memory of my low end Acer laptop maxed at 2 gigs. I killed the cool-daddy paint job and fade-in menus and fluff, and I usually use my thumbdrive that is Readyboost enabled to try and keep things running fast, and it may be placebo effect, but overall, the puter seems to give decent performance.

The clarseic view seems about the same as I would expect from most gui'd computers.

I like the wifi - has a button to turn on and off wifi access, and it auto recognizes connections that are open or that have been set up in the past. Nice.

The main beef I currently have with the system is that it doesn't accept my settings - I cut video down to high color from true color. On reboot, back to true color. Irfanview - I am a loyal user for something like 10 years - you would think there would be a way to tell the UAC (User access Control) to allow the thing to run without the "should we run this" popup EVERY TIME I TRY TO USE IT. You can right click the exe and set "run as administrator", but it, once again, doesn't take. I can kill UAC, and i think I might. Maybe that will help out some.

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Movies / Nakatomi Plaza on Google Maps
« on: December 16, 2007, 04:05:00 am »
Been doing Die Hard a bit today - here is Nakatomi Plaza from the first movie, via Google Maps:

Google Maps - Nakatomi Plaza

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Computing / Goodwill
« on: December 09, 2007, 09:51:41 am »
digisal - The GoodWill

This place still open and do you go there, Sal?

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Computing / Random Acts of Geekdom
« on: December 09, 2007, 09:45:05 am »
There is a guy I know who approached me looking for copies of DOS 6.22 - he is way old school.

Anyway, I didn't have DOS, but I had an original copy of Windows 95 A spread across something like 17 floppies. I upped it, as we don't have anything that will run such an old os (drivers, baby - it's all about the drivers).

I also looked about and found two 1.2 gig hard drives (Boot-And-Nuked and formatted up for use) and a copy of Windows 98 SE (tried to install that on the old eMachine, but it wouldn't go). Upped them to the cause, and the guy was in hog heaven. I just love handing off old geekables to someone who is going to have a great time with them.

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Computing / Emulation
« on: December 09, 2007, 09:37:08 am »
The boy is looking into his "dream laptop". He is leaning towards a Mac laptop and says he wants to do Windows XP via Parallels or whatever. Got me thinking about emulation again.

Awhile back I managed to get Mac OS 7.5.5 running on my 433 HP laptop via Basillisk II. You basically make a disk image and then use Basillisk to access it, copy over and install Mac OS 7.5.3 and then upgrade that to 7.5.5. It was fun to mess with, but I couldn't get the networking going, and without internet access, crap just isn't as fun as it could be.

Anywho, found reference to another Mac emulator called SheepShaver which can allow you to run up to OS 9.0.4. Hmmm.

The bad thing is both emulators require a ROM image.

Also, was thinking about a Hackintosh - shoehorning Mac OS X__ onto a non-Apple Intel puter. Hmmm...

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Music / Geek Tunez
« on: December 07, 2007, 08:11:14 pm »
8bitpeoples Has a bunch of MP3's of music made with Game Boy, NES, etc... Lotsa trance kinda stuff and there is a Christmas cd on here, too.

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Movies / Weak Points In... Cool As Ice
« on: December 04, 2007, 08:16:29 pm »
So here I am watching the Vanilla Ice flick "Cool as Ice".

One major plot point escapes me - when the family of the love interest who is in the witness protection program realizes that they are compromised why didn't they call the cops and get gone?

I give it  O0   O0   O0   O0   O0   O0 - 5 afro-smileys out of 8 because of the cultural significance.

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Yatta Yatta Yatta / It's A Wonderful Life
« on: December 02, 2007, 08:57:47 pm »
There is a downloadable version of a 40's era broadcast of "It's A Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart and all. Very cool listen.

Boing! Boing! - It's A Wonderful Life

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Movies / Enchantment Under The Sea Dance side-by-side
« on: December 01, 2007, 09:30:19 am »

...

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TV / Jennifers - Back to the Future I&II
« on: December 01, 2007, 08:28:00 am »
Side by side of the two Jennifers...

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/g00nie/comparativa.jpg

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Movies / Do you like...
« on: November 26, 2007, 09:01:20 pm »
The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

Lotsa interesting things here, including an MP3 of Anthony Stewart Head (The Buffyverse's Giles, The Watcher) singing Sweet Transvestite.

For those that might be interested.

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Music / PMP - what do you tote?
« on: November 26, 2007, 07:31:27 pm »
I currently have two old-school iPod Shuffle half gigs - got one myself and inherited one when a family member upgraded. I like the Shuffle ok - took me awhile to get used to playing with playlists, though.

I have a LOVE/HATE going with iTunes. It works (slowly on some machines - the Windows version is a BIG resource hog on my desktops - laptop seems ok with it, surprisingly), but I dislike having to add EVERYTHING to my music library before I can load it.

Since the Shuffle has no way of searching for what you want to listen to (say, separate out Podcasts) I have taken the other Shuffle and dedicated it to nothing but Podcasts. This is the only way that works for me.

One thing about Podcasts - I wish those that were offering them would think about bitrates - spoken word podcasts really don't need to be at 96 kbps stereo - way long download for some of us (and I'm on DSL). 2600's Off the Wall and it's ilk are perfect - usually 16 kbps mono and you can fit a whole hour show into about 7 megs of space. they can double it and I'd still be comfortable.

Lately I have taken to dragging a band to the clean Shuffle and then filling in with my usual playlist - ie last night I hooked up all my Sheryl Crow and then filled in the rest with my Clarseic Rock. Tonight I got all my Southern Rock and filled it in with Clarseic Rock.

Anyone use anything different?

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Computing / Ready Boost for XP and Vista
« on: November 25, 2007, 06:18:17 pm »
XP and Vista have a way of speeding up using a flash drive - when you plug it in it gives you the option of using the drive to speed up your computer. Nice. it writes to the flash drive rather than the hard drive swap file (about 10 times faster!).

Just got a 2 gb flash drive from Walmart fo $13 (Impact is the no-name brand) and it does seem quicker. At least on my Vista laptop.

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Computing / Vista - Waddaya think?
« on: November 23, 2007, 10:01:39 pm »
Came into a pretty decent laptop running Vista Home Basic and other than having to click 3 friggin popup "Are you sure" things every time I wanna do crap, it seems ok.

Of course I killed the paint job and all - and WIFI is AWESOME. Much better than my DS browsing.   ;D

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Computing / Cancelling Powweb is like Torture
« on: November 23, 2007, 06:59:03 pm »
Over 3 days it took me a chat, a service request, a phone call, and they still wanted me to fill out an online survey. Arghhhh!!!

Didn't have too bad a problem with them while I was there, but leaving them was a HUGE PITA!

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