Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-07-01
I just watched this short video about the iPhone and I have to say that I’m not that impressed. The thing I like most about it is the visual voicemail, which when you think about it isn’t a very advanced feature, but for some reason other phones don’t have it. Basically it just presents you with a list of your voicemails so you can skip to the one you want rather than listening to them all in order.
As for all the other features, I say “meh.” My Cingular 3125 has got it already.
Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-06-10
I’ve just logged into World of Warcraft again for the first time in while. Check it out…
Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-05-30
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Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-05-18
I couldn’t have picked a better ISP…
So Jasper plans to roll out his own equipment, providing residential Internet access at speeds of up to 24 Mbps — nearly four times the speed of what Comcast and AT&T currently offer on their next-generation equipment. And he plans to offer that service not only to some of its 32,000 customers, but also to other small ISPs across the state. These other ISPs will be able to buy wholesale access from Sonic, replacing AT&T’s traditional role.
Full article here.
Basically Sonic.net is becoming their own phone company so they can’t get screwed over by AT&T and the FCC. Rock, rock on.
Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-05-18
At work, we have been messing with iSCSI and VMWare server. When you combine the two…things get really interesting.
Basically, using Openfiler, we connected a behemoth of a server with loads of hard drives to the network in the basement, and connected a machine running VMWare server to the network on the second floor. We were then able to connect to the drives in the basement and use them, even as the root partition for the guest OS, like they were connected directly to the machine with a SCSI cable. Cool stuff.
I might just have to use iSCSI at home. I am thinking three machines: my desktop, a Linux machine running VMWare server, and a machine running Openfiler. I could use Openfiler as one big backup partition for my desktop and use it to mount all partitions for the VMWare server.
Of course…I already have three computers running 24/7, so there won’t be any consolidation anyway. Ah well, the geek in me (and since I am all geek, the me in me) has to always scheme of a prettier way of doing things.
Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-05-15
It’s official; the Hitachi 1TB SATA hard drive is on Newegg.
Anyone got $600 to spare?
Of course, I am partial to Western Digital, so I probably won’t get a 1TB drive until they release one. Probably within a year, I am guessing.
Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-05-08
Please, do the right thing and befriend a geek. Then have him or her help you with your computer problems. A beer or some cookies should be all the payment that is required.
Why? Because computer repair shops will rip you off, or at least most of them, anyway.
And in other news, I think they gave me caf instead of decaf at the coffee shop tonight. And hence, I can’t sleep.
Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-05-01
Slashdot has an article up about how the MPAA is sending takedown notices to websites that publish a certain number called the HD-DVD Processing Key. This number is used to decrypt (and hence, watch) HD-DVD movies. Certain privileged companies get to use this number so that their players can play these movies. But what if you wanted to watch your HD-DVD movie in Linux, or with some other unsupported method? You’d need this number.
Well the first comment to the Slashdot article had that very number in it. I find this hilarious…a slap in the face to the MPAA. Oh, what is the number, you ask? 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Hack away.
source: http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/
Update: and…we have 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com. Also, Wired joins the fight.
Update 2: Kevin Rose does the right thing.
Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-04-25
So a few weeks ago I made a change to my site on how the permalinks were displayed. A permalink is a link that you can use permanently to link to one of my posts. So if you wanted to say “Look at what this idiot Stu said about Democracy” on your blog and link to a post that I had written rather than the main page, which changes, you’d link to a permalink of mine.
The permalinks had previously been displayed as: http://www.fourmajor.com/?p=291
I changed it to: http://www.fourmajor.com/index.php/2007/04/24/heartbreaking-update-on-the-legless-man/
When I put an image into one of my posts (such as a picture or a screenshot), I would write the HTML like this: img src=”images/image.jpg” That way, if I ever changed the name of my website to, say, bestwebsiteever.com, I wouldn’t have to change any of my image tags. Well, when I changed my permalink structure, all this got broken. Instead of looking for fourmajor.com/images/image.jpg, my web server was looking for fourmajor.com/index.php/2007/04/24/images/image.jpg. This obviously wasn’t going to work. I figured there had to be a better way…
Thankfully, there is. What I did was to download this nifty search and replace plugin. I replaced all instances of “images/” with “http://www.fourmajor.com/images/”. This way, I can use the permalink format that I like. And should I ever change my domain name, I can simply do another search and replace. Oh, and for good measure: w00t.
Author: FourMajor
Date: 2007-04-23
I’ve been thinking for a while now that while GMail is great, I’d really like to host my own mail. Except I would want webmail, and I don’t want to use SquirrelMail. Well, after a little bit of searching, I found Roundcube WebMail. It’s AJAXy and it is GPL. Looks good to me. Of course it is still in early development stages, but I’ll take a look at it.
And now…A screenshot.
