Why Nintendo seems to be winning (2007/01/15)
I’ve been hanging out on a PS3 board (because I’m doing paying work on the PS3 right now), and I’ve noticed something. Many of the PS3 fans are absolutely confident that the Wii will “get boring” once people are “used to the controls”. They’re seeing it entirely in terms of novelty value; that the controls are attractive only because they are unfamiliar.
[read more...]Amiga RDB disk partition unpacking utility (2007/01/11)
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PS3: First impressions (2006/12/29)
I have a PS3 now. It’s for work.
[read more...]Frys still going... (2006/12/15)
Just for reference, the Frys spam run to old addresses is still going; I just got my fourth. So far, I have gotten no response from them, despite sending all the requested emails, jumping through hoops, and so on… And yes, I’m still getting mail from them.
[read more...]Spammed by Frys (2006/11/25)
So, Frys Electronics seems to have bought the ancient “Cyberian Outpost” web store.
[read more...]Wii! (2006/11/20)
I have had one of those experiences which is really interesting to have. Once.
[read more...]Windows, again. (2006/10/08)
So, Fireball’s computer is acting up. Can’t play videos. Research reveals that it can maybe play them with acceleration turned off, which leads to the discovery that the BIOS is not assigning an interrupt to the video card.
[read more...]NetBSD on an Intel-based Mac mini (2006/10/07)
Quick summary: NetBSD-current loads and runs beautifully on the Intel-based Mac mini.
[read more...]Windows Genuine Advantage and the Blue Screen of Death (2006/08/11)
If you aren’t a techie, it may not be immediately obvious how incredibly incompetent the people who maintain Windows are.
[read more...]New scanner = love (2006/08/02)
So, I get a lot of junk faxes, and I sue a lot of junk faxers. I’ve been planning to get organized, and one of the things I need is scans of all the faxes.
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