Posted
Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:14:21 GMT
to Posted in Life, Geek
Tags humor
So…..... you are down at the Busker’s festival and come across a Much Music area where they have XBoxs and laptops sitting out in the open. What’s a computer geek to do? Obviously check out the laptops to see how much access they left.
Which is, of course, full access. So you browse around the hard drive, and right in the root directory is a folder entitled Partition_Magic_8.0_with_Serial. If only they had had internet access and I could have taken a screenshot. Way to go with that warez Much Music. I was amused, very amused.
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Posted
Sun, 03 Jul 2005 20:37:01 GMT
to Posted in Geek, Ideas
Tags humor
Due to past conversations and certain web comics I’ve been doing some thinking.
You see, technically, music devices are behind the times.
Me, I can plug a musical device directly into my implant. No headphone static, no background noise, just crisp, clear, musicy goodness.
The devices are small enough to fit behind the ear. Sure you might not get 8 gigs of space for music, but you should be able to get 512 MB at the very least.
Tranfers could be accomplished using bluetooth. Controls could be built into a watch, also using bluetooth.
All we need is a workaround of the surgery costs and we’re good to go!
Think of the marketing slogans!
“Listen to the voices in your head that much clearer!”
Hmmm…....... maybe not.
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Posted
Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:42:39 GMT
to Posted in Geek
Tags ati, drivers, linux
The other day ATI released new linux drivers for their Radeon cards, complete with a new graphical installer. In the past, I have had nothing but gried with ATI drivers, never successfully getting 3D acceleration working. However, this time, once I went through the process and ran the configuration, when the display server restarted, and I loaded up Tuxracer (hey, everyone uses it as an indication on whether acceleration is working), what I got was smoothe graphics.
Now, if the same process that I used on my lab machine works on my home machine, I might not need to use Windows anymore.
On a side note, my Windows machine has been running for almost 2 months now with no major problems, but since Win2k support is being discontinued, I wonder how long that is going to last.
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Posted
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:10:34 GMT
to Posted in Life, Geek, Ideas
Tags humor
- Take over the new ‘Management’ Building next door once it is complete. It’s taller than ours and the management faculty is obviously not as important as us.
- Turn the current CS Building into an Urban Paintball field to generate revenue. I mean, think about how awesome it would be to do Couterstrike like missions with paintball guns in the CS Building.
- What about the management students? Well, they’ve gotten used to the management building already. What’s a few more years taking classes there?
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Posted
Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:21:24 GMT
to Posted in Geek, Ideas
Tags humor, music
One of the reason some of my friends are so awesome is that one of us will have a crazy idea, and run with it. Maybe not in reality, but in a big long discussion on what we would end up doing.
Today, the following was thought up:
Starting up a nerd-punk band with a name like “Iain and the Stooges” (help desk individuals would understand). Which has evolved into me being singer/songwriter, my friend Jon (not you Despry) as guitarist, and other individuals of tech support filling additional spaces. We figure, there is so much BAD punk out there, that we couldn’t really do any worse.
I’m getting ideas again… and we all know what that means…
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