matt | November 29, 2003
I took another look at Freevo and grabbed the latest version.
They've FIXED the speed problem!
As the freevo user (though if you make it world readable, it doesn't seem to matter), you need to run freevo cache which caches the tags in the files. It sits there and chews on it for many minutes and then [...]
matt | November 29, 2003
Tried to install some video games:
Starcraft – Works flawlessly
XCOM – UFO Defense (Windows version) – Chokes on install. Says that UninstallShield is in use
HalfLife – Supposed to work flawlessly, and other people can get it to work, however, for me it bitches about not having
enough temporary storage space. Don't know how to fix it.
So, [...]
matt | November 29, 2003
Need to make a turkey sandwich.
matt | November 29, 2003
I just did 90% of my christmas shopping in 2 hours on the internet.
matt | November 28, 2003
In evaluating other Linux distributions (I do this whenever “upgrade time” comes around) today I looked at:
Fedora Core 1
Knoppix
Mepis
One thing to bear in mind – it must work on all my systems. Consequently, I like to test on Laptops, since they have more of the “wierd stuff” (PCMCIA, IEEE1394, wireless cards, etc.) that's not on [...]
matt | November 26, 2003
Vanilla Sky is one of those very, very strange movies.
So, a bunch of folks were headed out to the bar today. I went with them, but there was this person whose company I dislike who went with them as well. So, I left and went home.
There's been a lot of news in the past week [...]
matt | November 22, 2003
Last night, I had dinner with Liz, and she said that she had to go to the pet store to get some kitty litter for Mikey, and she had to find a present for her sister-in-law's birthday. She asked if I wanted to come, and I told her that I would go wherever she was [...]
matt | November 21, 2003
It's been a crazy week.
On Saturday (couldn't talk about it until the deal was announced), they told me that Atlantek (where I work) was about to be acquired by Zebra technologies. On Monday, it was. So, I now work for Zebra.
They're a successful large cap (something like $3 bn) company, and they own one of [...]
matt | November 18, 2003
It's NUCLEAR, Mr. Bush.
Apparently, I'm not the only person annoyed by this.
http://flem.keenspace.com/d/20020702.html
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