baby pics cont.

I finally scanned Rae'Anne's new pictures today and put them online. They had been in my wallet and some of the edges look a little messed up but, you get what you get, come visit instead of staring at pictures of us all online.



That ones my favorite. The other two are here and here.

my birthday

Yea, my birthday was about six days ago now. It's been a long week of working and such so I haven't had the time to update this lonely little place. Things of interest that I received would be a copy of Sin City on DVD. The awesome two disk edition, which comes complete with the first Sin City graphic novel, which is very cool, as I never got to read it before. And a second disk with the uncut movie split up into the individual stories. Very cool.

I also got the Final Fantasy III Nintendo DS game. Very nice also. This game is not as good as I had hoped it would turn out, but it is still a nice piece of gaming history to own. I like that the game is exactly like the NES version only turned 3D. Only thing is, the 3D could have been better and the game could have used a bit more fine-tuning. Other than that, I'm having a great time playing this game again.

Not bad for turning 28. I would have been happy with that stuff if I had turned 12 also! ;)

baby pics

We finally got the new baby pictues back today. I'll take them to my mom's tomorrow and run them through the scanner so I can put up some new pics for the world to see of my beautiful baby girl.

re-ds-ing

Well, that new DS Lite I bought the other day with the dead pixel... I took it back. I got a new one, with another dead pixel. Well that makes three DS models I've owned now and each and every one came with a dead pixel, all in random places. I guess I'm stuck with a dead pixel no matter what.

That sucks.

re-building

Those SDLMAME builds I posted the other day sure enough did need rebuilds. So if you were one of the unlucky ones who actually went and got those... go get them again!

sdlmame 0.110u3

Updated my G4 builds to the current mainline changes today. SDLMAME hasn't officially been updated, so these builds might need rebuilding in a day pending any official changes. But they are current as of now.

ds lite

I bought a Nintendo DS Lite today so I could play my to-be Christmas present of Final Fantasy III from my girlfriend on it. I had originally owned a DS but didn't like how ugly and bulky it was so I ended up selling it. With the release of FFIII and the redesigned DS out, I decided to give it another shot. I am very impressed with the sleekness of the device. It no longer feels like I have a cheap toy, but I now have a great shiny piece of gaming equipment.

There's only one problem with the thing, a dead pixel. It wouldn't be a issue if it was in the corner of the screen, or not noticeable. But this thing glows bright green on a black background. And that's just ugly.

I'm going back to the store tomorrow to exchange my new purchase for one hopefully without a dead pixel.

I do, however, recommend that if you do not own a DS, go get a DS Lite. It is a wonderful piece of engineering and a very sleek design.

And my girlfriend thinks Nintendo sucks...

annoying

When I log out of my blogger.com account, since it's connected to my google account, it logs me out of all my google stuff too. This includes my google homepage, gmail, and um.. well that's it. But, fuck it's annoying. I definitely think the cookies should be separate. I want to always be logged into my google homepage but I do not always want to be logged into blogger.com. They should stay two distinct entities and not be tied together. Just my two cents.

sdlmame 0.110u2

I updated my compiles of SDLMAME for us old G4 Mac users on my site yesterday. I think the only new features in this update worth note is the ability to play DDR. Oh boy. Lemme go get that one right now, it's all I ever wanted to play. Go get my compiles here and go play some pacman instead.

subversion, neon, and openssl

Apparently, using a SSL-enabled version of subversion requires using a little more then what is included in the subversion-deps package. Of course, one needs to get OpenSSL themselves, but neon which is the piece of the puzzle one needs to connect all three together (and is included in the deps package) isn't the version one needs to use the SSL feature. To use SSL connections with subversion, you cannot use the included neon package. Instead, you have to go get neon-0.25.5, and replace the included one from the subversion-deps package and recompile the entire thing.

Thank you subversion team for sending out a incompatible version for everyone to use. I'm sure it makes everyone happy to have such a easy installation, only to find it don't work as advertised.

EDIT: Well, after recompiling and installing all this software, subversion using SSL still don't work. Nice. Now, how am I supposed to checkout things from sourceforge without being able to access https?

wii

I could have swore the Wii was to be launched today, now everywhere claims it comes out this Sunday. I've heard reports that games are already for sale at stores across the nation and they even started pirating them already. huh. Go figure ;)

new layout

I moved to a new layout, playing a bit with the blogger beta features. I haven't been updating this thing much... life and World of Warcraft got in the way. I've got so many things I'd like to write down somewhere for no one to hear too... oh well maybe another day.

mac mini

It's no secret, I need to upgrade my Mac. But I'm currently torn between waiting until Apple decides to release something better in my price range, or just buying a Mac mini. I could get another iMac eventually, and maybe I will. But I don't have the money for those things right now. The G4 Mac mini's are going for $350 out the door at many places, and they are 42% faster than my current Mac. I could probably manage one of them but I'd need to get a monitor and max out the ram too. Which would bring my spending up a few hundred bucks, but still cheaper then a new Intel-based Mac mini. I may end up doing that, as I'm not interested in windows, or PC vendors options.

Then again, I could just build my own machine and run linux again.

slackware 11.0 rc2

11.0 final is near. I fixed up some missing files on my ftp, cleaned up the entire thing and I'm ready for 11.0 to drop now, are you? ;)

slackware 11.0 rc 1

Today marks the new Slackware's first release candidate. There have been so many improvements in the distro since the 10.2 release, and its finally coming to a stable point here now. If you use linux, I'd highly recommend getting this. Maybe you'd like to get it from my very own ftp mirror? ;)

spam

Is it me or has Gmail been hammered lately with all kinds of new and crazy spam? Fuck, I hate email.

iPodtastic

Well after fiddling around in the iPod debug menu, I finally made some progress. I got the thing to boot into disk mode after entering a "FW TEST" mode and updated the firmware from there. It appears to be slowly copying my 4000+ song collection back to its hard disk and we'll see from there if it works correctly. The drive makes some funky noises which could be a result of me throwing it on the floor repeatedly in a feeble attempt to fix it. I probably broke it but well, it does SOMETHING now at least.

iPod debug menu

I have been searching for a way to fix my seemingly un-repairable iPod for months now. I had assumed it just needed to be charged from a real electrical outlet. Wrong. Apparently, the problem which my iPod suffers from, is caused by a bad flash of the firmware. There is a secret debug menu hidden which I can access by holding down the Rewind, Forward, and "Enter" keys upon booting. I cannot find any documentaion of the 15 or so utilities available in this mode anywhere online. I'm not sure if it will enable me to fix the iPod yet, but I'm not going to stop trying these options until I get this fucking thing working again. As a side note; don't mess with the debug stuff unless your willing to possibly damage your iPod, and if you do fuck yours up... don't blame me.

sad day

You know it's a sad day when I'm seriously considering the Xbox 360 as my next console purchase. I think Nintendo got it wrong with the Wii, I don't really want to have to jump around and shit to play video games. And Sony, with the PS3, I just don't trust their products anymore after my PS2 shit out on me after 2 years...

Jay buying a Microsoft product??!!?? It's almost unheard of. Of course I won't have $500 for a 360 anytime soon... but Quake 4 is calling to me already...

^Q3Tr0LL3R^

I have some interest in the continued development in the now open source Quake 3 source code. So I began looking around online for projects that may be looking for help in a OSX specific area. I found one (according to their website). icculus.org/quake3, as they call it. I noticed they had some files up and a svn repository for the source. The OSX binary they had on thier site was out-of-date to thier current revisions, so I thought I'd be nice and offer up a up-to-date OSX binary (temporarily located here for anyone interested). Upon sending a email to the mailing list that I had compiled a current OSX PPC binary, I was nothing short of flamed for it not being a Universal Binary (a binary which works on Intel and PowerPC Macs) and my all around not supporting of the x86 architecture which makes up the newest models of the Mac computer line. Truth be told, it didn't compile a Universal Binary out of the box, and I lack the knowledge to change source code to do it. I saw nothing wrong with making my contribution, and saw no reason for the rude comments I received.

I had also posted a question on thier message board previous to all of this, reguarding my creating a native OSX installer for the application. Which according to thier website, they needed someone to do. I was doing that just because I wanted to help out a open source project which claimed they needed the help. When the help was given, they didn't seem to want or care for it. And then had the nerve to tell me I was trolling.

I unsubscribed to thier list after being called a troll and deleted any and all work I had done for the installer and was done with it. This is notably the first time I had attempted to help a open source effort and been shot down for my help.

icculus.org/quake3 can fuck off. I'll stick to id Software's PPC only official release from now on.