I swear, wow’d twice in a span of an hour! Check out this. Knoppix is a Live CD distribution of Linux. Basically, that means that the OS boots off of the CD rom and directly into memory, never touching your hard drive. In my opinion it has been the biggest reason for Linux adoption, because it allows users to test out without modifying their system. Accelerated Knoppix is a modification by a Japanese developer to make the boot process as fast as possible....
Unfortunately it looks like Ann tore her ACL skiing a week ago Sunday. She visits an orthopedic specialist tomorrow (well technically today, given its 12:30pm here), and hopefully we’ll be able to find out exactly how bad it is (though probably a followup for an MRI will be needed). Anyway, she looks to be out of commission for quite a while. She probably wouldn’t like me posting this, but I have a feeling if you happened to call to catch up, she’d appreciate it (try not to let it slip that you know ahead of time, or you’ll give me away)....
Dreamfall is the highly anticipated sequel to The Longest Journey, which in my opinion was one of the best true adventure games to come along since Sierra Online was in its heyday. The trailer looks to keep true to the spirit. You won’t see mind blowing video sequences. In fact it looks like they took standard game play for most of it (we’ll see when it arrives this spring). The biggest achievement of TLJ was the characters and story, and this one doesn’t look to disappoint....
So, granted this was a while ago (last summer), but they finally got the video up. Enchant is a really cool Bay Area progressive rock band. I’ve run into them a few times at Dream Theater concerts. If anyone is interested I can send them a few files (of course, at this point no one trusts me to even give it a chance =) Oh well. Check out the video. I think he did a great job....
When we were home last weekend (in the great weather), I went out to the hill by my house to take a pano of Mt. Diablo. I thought I’d try to push it, and right now my computer is crunching on a 250 MP image! I started on my laptop (which is faster) for 12 hours, but it only got around 30% done. I didn’t want to tie up my laptop that long, so I kicked off the process again on my desktop (only 500Mhz and 612 MB memory) so it might take a long time, but the initial output looks pretty good....
Thanks to a Firefox extension known as Sage, I have discovered RSS feeds. I never really understood why it was such a big deal. I had never seen a good implementation of a reader that made it clear. Well I do know. I went out and pulled all the RSS feeds for the sites I frequent, and Sage provides a wonderful interface for reading and catching up with the world. The great feature is that when you are on a site you like, you can have it look through for any feeds for it automatically, every handy, as most people try to hide the RSS link....
I had downloaded the Sevendust album I had spoke of earlier via bittorrent. I liked it. As I believe P2P helps artists, this prompted me to go buy the album. I was in Walmart doing some household shopping (cleaning stuff, toilet paper, etc) when I saw they had the Sevendust album on sale. I was a little surprised, because its Walmart and the album does have explicit lyrics. It didn’t have an EL sticker on it (though other albums did)....
Remember! These are from a game released in 1989 on a platform released in 1986. We are talking the infancy of personal desktop computing here. These are ogg files from the actual game. I only got a handful of sounds. I know there are some cooler stuff at later levels. Be sure to at least check out the last one! Crystal’s and Enemy You Died Special Whee! Orgasmic When you think about it, the Apple IIgs was way ahead of its time!...
What a fucking trip down memory lane! Way, way, way back when… my very first computer was an Apple IIgs. An evolutionary step up from the Apple II or IIe. It marked the last “Apple” Apple computer before it went entirely with Macintosh. Anyway, there were lots of… how shall I put this… classic games released for it. I still have my IIgs, though I haven’t connected it up in years, and I have to imagine all my old discs are shot at this point…...
I have now reached over 6,000 pictures in my image database (managed with iMatch, of which I’ve categorized about 90% of it. iMatch’s category system is so incredibly powerful), which I think take over 12 GB of space (which it all resides on my laptop hard drive… not the most secure solution). This doesn’t include all the Photoshop work (which is a few GBs of its own!) I’ve been thinking about how to deal with this....