I’m Bringing Daily Back

It’s been a while since I discontinued my daily blog posts. I have been bestowed much more free time lately and would like to pick it back up. Daily posts starting tomorrow! (Well, actually today if you think about it..)

My Stab at Enlightenment

I heard some good things about the Enlightenment Window Manager; so I decided to give it a shot. There was something about enlightenment that I enjoyed, maybe the simplicity or the visual effects. Unfortunately the little ripple effect would max out my processor. The themes were ugly and it has an extremely steep learning curve. I’m sticking with my XFCE, looks great, easy to install themes, nice and light, What else could you ask for?

Heres enlightenment:

Heres XFCE:

I prefer XFCE, it doesn’t look so cheap…

I’m downloading Ubuntu 8.10

I read on a forum that the new ubuntu supports my wireless card right out of the box. So, I’ll install it with wubi and if it works well, I might seek a more permanent installation.

I’m typing this from my iPod cause my computer is slow due to the 800 kb/s download speed. Only 9 more minutes! (that’ll be about 15 minutes total!)

Edit: just finished downloading, now I’m rebooting teh computer.

Edit: wubi has not worked so far, now I’m gonna so it the old fashoned way.

Well, live cd did not boot either and the disc check showed no errors. So, I quit…

Featured iPod Touch App 11-20-08

I am going to start doing a featured iPod Touch App service for all of my loyal readers. (I would have called it app of the day, but I have already seen someone else’s blog with that name + I don’t want you all to think that this is daily!)

Note: all of these apps should work on the iPhone

Today’s featured app totally blew me away when I first used it. It is…

CUBE! by fernLightning

Here’s the description:

Cube is a singleplayer and multiplayer first person shooter that provides satisfying and fast oldskool gameplay. This opensource game is built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail. Most of the engine design is targeted at reaching feature richness through simplicity of structure and brute force, rather than finely tuned complexity. 


This iphone port is provided by fernLightning is a technology demo that supports all of the functionality of the desktop version including multiplayer, in-game editing, cooperative editing, demo recording, etc (though some of these are impractical on the iphone) – please visit the official Cube homepage http://www.cubeengine.com/ for more information. Furthermore we encourage people to check out the newest version of Cube – Cube 2: Sauerbraten – a far more powerful and modern version.

fernLighting thanks Wouter van Oortmerssen of dot3labs for his permission to release this port.

This is totally amazing! A first person shooter! For an iPod! (You won’t see that on a Zune)

 

With it’s default setting, it’s a little laggy. But with a few tweaks of graphics, it is very usable.

The controls are a little tough, that could be fixed in a later update (This is version 1 after all!)

I haven’t tried to multiplayer yet… 

ITS HARD! (But I found a way to tweak that too!)

 

Overall, I give it 4/5 stars. It’s not perfect, but sure is amazing! 

 

Screenshots:

Does this look like it’s on an iPod to you?

Most of the games on my PC look worse…

Credit, Debit, or Spider?

I found this news story on the internet and had to just share it with all of you…

Below is the complete email conversation that Adelaide man David Thorne claims he had with a utility company chasing payment of an overdue bill.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David, 
Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles
From: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.37pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane, 
I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.

Regards, David.

 

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.07am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David, 
Thankyou for contacting us. Unfortunately we are unable to accept drawings as payment and your account remains in arrears of $233.95. Please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles
From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.32am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane, 
Can I have my drawing of a spider back then please.

Regards, David.
From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.42am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear David, 
You emailed the drawing to me. Do you want me to email it back to you?

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles
From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.56am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,

Yes please.

Regards, David.
From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 12.14pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

Attached

 

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 09.22am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Whose spider is that?

Dear Jane, Are you sure this drawing of a spider is the one I sent you? This spider only has seven legs and I do not feel I would have made such an elementary mistake when I drew it.

Regards, David.
From: Jane Gilles
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.03am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David, Yes it is the same drawing. I copied and pasted it from the email you sent me on the 8th. David your account is still overdue by the amount of $233.95. Please make this payment as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles
From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.05am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Automated Out of Office Response

Thankyou for contacting me. I am currently away on leave, traveling through time and will be returning last week.

Regards, David.
From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.08am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Hello, I am back and have read through your emails and accept that despite missing a leg, that drawing of a spider may indeed be the one I sent you. I realise with hindsight that it is possible you rejected the drawing of a spider due to this obvious limb ommission but did not point it out in an effort to avoid hurting my feelings. As such, I am sending you a revised drawing with the correct number of legs as full payment for any amount outstanding. I trust this will bring the matter to a conclusion.

Regards, David.

 

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Monday 13 Oct 2008 2.51pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David, As I have stated, we do not accept drawings in lei of money for accounts outstanding. We accept cheque, bank cheque, money order or cash. Please make a payment this week to avoid incurring any additional fees.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles
From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 13 Oct 2008 3.17pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

I understand and will definately make a payment this week if I remember. As you have not accepted my second drawing as payment, please return the drawing to me as soon as possible. It was silly of me to assume I could provide you with something of completely no value whatsoever, waste your time and then attach such a large amount to it.

Regards, David.
From: Jane Gilles
Date: Tuesday 14 Oct 2008 11.18am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Attached

 

 

Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665847

Ipod App Test

Just testing to see if the wordpress app I downloaded to my iPod is working. It looks like it is!

There must have been an update that fixed the problem I was having.

The iPod Touch

Well, I got it! Here are my experiences:

• Everything is amazing!
• Except:

1. I can’t seem to get the wordpress app to work…
2. And Hotmail isn’t supported in the mail client (and that’ll never change!)

But otherwise, I’ve been frolicking in free apps, like lolcats. Speaking of lolcats, here’s one! (sent from my touch)

 

I had one that I was going to combine into a political statement but I seemed to have misplaced it…

October 2008 Stats

Yay! Here are October’s stats:

• Another blog still holds the most coveted title of bringing people here (with only 5 more refers than my old website). So, to honor them, I will post a link back. You can visit the blog here. 
• My most viewed blog is still my Download Windows 7 blog, with a good 400 page views on all of my others.
• The search engine term that brought the most people here is “blackberry pearl flip” with one more visit than from “windows 7 rapidshare.”
• • Total views: 5525 (1,546 more than last month)
  • Busiest day: 90 views — Thursday, August 21, 2008
  • Posts:79
  • Comments:52
  • Categories:31
  • Tags: 128
  • And I have had 471 spam comments (That’s 219 more than last month)
  And now we have a Google Pagerank of 4! That’s out of 10! Aren’t we amazing!?
  So there are the stats. 
  P.S. My iPod Touch is on the way. I’ll be posting about it soon!

The Laptop Project

I have started “The Laptop Project” with an old Toshiba Portege 7020CT laptop with 128mb RAM that I found at my Grandmother’s. The goal is to create a computer that is fast, looks nice, and does what it needs to. Basically, it’s a proof-of-concept that linux can revive an old computer back to greatness. (I also want to make my friend with Vista Home Basic jealous)

Here is the software:

• Distro: Puppy Linux 4.10
• WM: XFCE 4.4.2
• Theme: Vistabut (like a white vista)
• Eye Candy: Wbar
• Internet Browser: Opera (it seems like the fastest)

Any suggestions?