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Rant: Phriggin' Philips
So I have officially sworn off Philips. Not the screwdriver, the electronic manufacturer. I was a little confused when I pulled the dead/flaky CDRW/DVD drive out of Amanda’s folk’s computer last week when it turned out to be a Philips instead of some no name manufacturer. Seemed a little odd that something they made would give out in a year and a half of normal use. Turns out it may be par for the course.
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#define seneschal
Pronunciation: ‘se-n&-sh&l Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, of Germanic origin; akin to Gothic _sineigs _old and to Old High German _scalc_servant 1 : an agent or steward in charge of a lord’s estate in feudal times [Source]
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Ireland Photos
I think I’ve got the bulk of the photos from our honeymoon in Ireland cleaned up and uploaded. You should be able to view them now here. I tried setting it up to auto-resize them when I uploaded (since I don’t have the disk space to store them all full res), but I’m not sure if I want them any bigger than it’s currently set to. If you’ve got any feedback in that respect, please let me know.
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We're back!
So Amanda and I got back from our honeymoon in Ireland Monday night. We pretty much up and died when we got home. Very long day. Spent yesterday trying to get shifted back by 6 hours and deal with essential errands. We’ve had all of Amanda’s film developed onto CD, and I offloaded all of my digital pics to my computer. The photos are largely sorted by this point, but need some cleanup before I’ll put them up on the web.
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Sponge Monkeys!
So I ran across this post over at adland about the Quiznos Sponge Monkeys. I’ve been wondering where on earth they came up with those brilliant, bizarre, singing critters. So freakin’ hilarious. Anyway, the ads are done by this guy as demonstrated by this other webshort of his about the moon. Doesn’t look like everyone over at adland appreciates them though… since they seem to have confused the little furry critters with rats which they don’t think are appropriate in food ads…
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Cutest Kitten
This has got to be the cutest kitten ever! So sleepy.
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Fool me once...
Another fine example of our president’s amazing gift for public speaking (courtesy of those geniuses over at The Daily Show).
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OS X
Looks like you actually can emulate a PPC on an x86 well enough to install OS X. It’s still a little on the slow side (basic emulation results in 500:1 slowdown over the host processor, while their JIT compiler for x86 brings that up to more like 40:1 slowdown since they cache the translated code), but the project seems pretty active, and there’s lots of room for improvement. Still pretty need to see Mac OS X running on a PC (either Windows or Linux, but I’ve just tried Linux at this point).
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Emulate PPC on x86?
I must be in one heck of a blogging mood today. I saw this Slashdot post and thought it sounded pretty sweet. Turns out, they’ve released a GPL’d PPC emulator for x86 that is actually capable of booting OS X. Here’s the OS-News article that includes all the pretty pictures. Sounds like it’s still got a few problems (reviewer ran into a few infinite loop explosions once OS X had started, and it guzzles the whole CPU), but it actually kinda worked.
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Fedora Core 2
So Fedora Core 2 is officially out. I actually snagged it a few days early thanks to this Slashdot post that included this friendly torrent. Spent a while getting it up and running under VMware and it looked pretty good. Just when I starting to think about updating my RH9 box, the computer up and imploded on me. I’m not sure what happened, but suddenly X refused to start and I couldn’t even get it to give me access to a text console so that I could back everything up and reinstall.
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