First Thoughts: AirPort Extreme Base Station - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
RE: torrenting and ports, if you have Azureus, you don't have to manually forward ports anymore with the new router. Goto Azureus Preferences > Plugins > UPnP > NAT-PMP and enable it.On the new Extreme, goto Internet > NAT and Enable NAT Port-Mapping Protocol
Now everytime you open Azureus, it should be able to open the appropriate ports on the Extreme as needed.
Gamasutra - Fixing Online Gaming Idiocy: A Psychological Approach
Some gamers are fuckwads Of all the ways I spend my free time, playing games online is the only one I would describe as "frequently barbaric". Insults of all kinds, including racist and homophobic slurs, are commonplace.The women I know who play online avoid anything that would identify them as female -- including voice communication -- in order to avoid the unwanted, and frequently negative, attention.
And that's just how players are intentionally insulting -- what some people do while playing online can also be aggravating.
Cheating, team-killing, entering a game but not playing, quitting before the game is over, and more, are all relatively common. Common enough that it was deemed worthy of a Penny Arcade comic, speculating about why normal people become fuckwads online.
Still Alive
I just had to post it.
World of Warcraft: The Molten Core
Blizzard's World of Warcraft: The Molten Core Collector's Edition, also announced today, will include tinted cellophane TV overlays, further increasing the array of colors available to players. Additional Collector's Edition features, as well as details on the upcoming World of Warcraft: The Molten Core beta test, will be revealed closer to release. World of Warcraft: The Molten Core will initially be available for the Atari 2600 platform, with plans for additional console systems to be announced in the near future.
No thanks. I was with RoadRunner here in Austin back when they firstrolled out service, and for a couple years after that. I know just how flaky and lame their email, DNS, and web services are. They made headlines multiple times here when their POS email server ate thousands of customer emails, and their DNS was a joke (they have redundant DNS servers, but if one malfunctions, the others malfunction as well - meaning dear mom one day gets bounce back messages when she tries to email you, for instance). I found out Time Warner uses Microsoft servers exclusively, due to a limiting funding contract they signed with M$. And I'm quite sure they suck just as much, if not more, today than ever.I've since switched to Earthlink as my ISP. Time Warner still provides the hardware (the cable line to my house, and the modem), but Earthlink provides the services (DNS, email, web). It's been smooth sailing ever since! I switched my DNS to OpenDNS only to avoid Earthlink's invasive ad-laden search pages on failed DNS lookups. Now with the addition of AdBlock Plus, my web browsing is pain-free!
Yeah, awesome. This just started happening to me this week. Time Warner has a monopoly so there is no-one I can switch too. Also, talking to a tech I could not even get them to admit these pages exist even though I have screen shots and the url. Just a FYI people.....
Been using Scribefire for the past few weeks here on the blog and I have to say it makes the whole process a breeze. Sometimes it seems to have a mind of it's own, but I like it. And I know blogging is old fashioned now with twitter and pownce, but I guess old habits die hard. Plus, twitter annoys the christ out of me.
And git off mah lawn!
Damn kids.
Let’s go vampire slaying
Let’s go vampire slaying
Cold, undead relics from a past age haunt the corporate world, spreading fear and carnage wherever they go. These monsters can look good, seductive even, but if you let them, they’ll suck the life force out of you and leave you dead. Or worse: One of them. I call them vampire ideas and all they deserve is a stake through the heart. Vampire ideas can be found in stock management philosophy, tired old leadership theories or business advice from an earlier era. Wherever they come from, they’re bad for you and they’re bad for business.Hoo boy, this sums up my corporate days perfectly.
time machine slow initial backup - fix - Mac Forums
My initial experiences with time machine were not great, glacially slow initial backup rate, left external HDD in unstable state that could not be repaired, stuck on "preparing" etc. The initial backup rate was minutes per Mb--unacceptable. here are some steps I took, based on watching this and apple support discussion groups--this may not work for all problems being experienced.turn off time machine
Although TM doesnt require exclusive use of an external drive and will use HDs that have other data, you are placing those data at risk:
before you turn on TM backup anything you have on your intended time machine external disk, partition ( as GUID) first, then erase (format as HFS extended, journaled) and check/repair permissions. (dont let time machine format the disk)
exclude the external disk from spotlight indexing (or turn off spotlight altogether); certainly do not commence initial backup while spotlight is performing initial index after leopard install
turn off any virus checking!!
remove TM plist file from any previous attempts and erase and trash any previous backup files
exclude any large frequently updated database files (Entourage, Parallels) from time machine.
If you have multiple drives that you dont intend including in your routine backup, make sure you exclude them in TM
avoid daisy chained FW drives for the initial backup, time machine disk should be directly connected.
that's about it, Time Machine backed up a ~90G system from a 2.4Ghz SR MBP to a LaCie 500G d2 (FW800) in about 120 minutes and has continued with hourly backups since.
good luck!
This did the trick for me. Been using TM since Jan and just had it take a crap on me. Tried all sorts of stuff but this did it. Norton is what slows it down biiiig time.
A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a "voiceless" phone call for the first time. With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.
And then the gub-ment can tap it at will and use it in a interrogation. I'll take 2 please!
So I plan on upgrading to a new Intel mac soon and plan on installing Bootcamp on it for games ASAP. (BTW, Bootcamp now supports 64 bit!)
I used to have a gaming PC back in 2001-2003 and ran XP fine, but with Vista I wanted to see what I could dig up in the way of recent reviews and found a nice write up over at ZD net.
XP SP2 vs. Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1: Gaming benchmark | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
I wish it delved into the difference between 64 and 32 bit, but all in all Vista still looks like a dog.
"We didn’t sit the boys down for long lectures; rather, every time we noticed that a commercial or a print ad caught their attention, we asked them if they thought the product really did what the commercial claimed. This introduced the idea that sometimes people say things that aren’t true and that it was okay for them to question what they saw and heard. It also taught the boys that what they think is important and valuable. At the same time, we explained to them how companies need money to pay their workers and themselves, and how those companies try to convince others to buy their products in order to make money. Slowly, we began to see a change in their behavior."
Great post.
Looks like The Gimp has been updated to run on 10.5. For those of you who do not know, The Gimp is a open source free version image editor like photoshop. Only free.
Has a healing brush now!
Video of Dean Kamen's 'Luke Skywalker' bionic arm.This kind of stuff blows me away. In case you don't have the time for the whole vid, he operates a good part of it with sensors that are in his shoes. When he presses with the ball of his foot it rotates the wrist.