Archive for October, 2007

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ffs…
For the last two days I've been trying to resurrect my dad's mini that decided to just start acting weird and then not start up. Every manner of disk repair utility and data recovery tool is telling me to fix some directory structure first. Problem is nothing works. They all fatal error [...]

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Family Tree

I find this to be quite the cool idea. This artists literally ripped photos in half of people and their kids and then pasted them together. The results are pretty amazing. Along with those is his other experiment of doing the same thing with photos of people with their younger selves.
Bobby Neel [...]

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query

Ever been on the edge of doing something really cool if only you could type the right query into google to find your answer, but yet you keep coming up with the same 10 or so results over and over that don't even relate to what you want?
yeah…

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ps3 as a media server

So, I've become hooked on Heroes and I'm rapidly catching up on season 1 in order to better catch the nuances of season 2, which I've been recording the HD streams with the EyeTV. The question is, what do I back these up to, along with any other show I record?
Heroes is [...]

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Bowling updates

Well, 6 weeks in it's been hit or miss each week it seems. One game in the gutter, one on average, and one above. On average tho, the average is getting higher and the handicap lower. So, I'm improving, but still have a long ways to go. I'm to the point [...]

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Biggest Missent Yet

The automation of letters by OCR and insanely fast machines sometimes leads to glitches if a letter is caught up in another one or the wrong barcode gets slapped on the wrong letter because of a delay/jam or something like that which led to the barcode intended for one letter to be placed on another. [...]

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Remote Play

I think I'm beginning to change my mind on the usefulness of Remote Play on the PSP/PS3 combo. Ok, so it can't play games at all right now. Big whoop. But… I set up MediaTomb on my mac and added a few static things and it was instantly seen on the PS3 as [...]

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It happened…

The other uncertainty about when or what other next gen console I would be getting has finally been solved. I had been sitting on the fence about the PS3 for ages now. One, it's too damn expensive. Two, there's nothing on it I care about. However, that's not to say I [...]

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