devlogic.org » 2006 » June http://devlogic.org No tagline, no purpose. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:53:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3 en hourly 1 Holy glaciers, Batman! http://devlogic.org/2006/06/28/285/ http://devlogic.org/2006/06/28/285/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:28:46 +0000 devlogic http://devlogic.org/2006/06/28/285/ I think the fridge might be a little cold...

Yeah, that's not a plastic pitcher. That's the ice that I took out of the pitcher this morning. You think the fridge at work might be set a little too low?

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  • macosxhints.com - Change Parallels Desktop 1.0's caching strategy
    I might need this some day if I get a MacBook and want to run Parallels Desktop.
    (tags: apple memory osx mac software hack)
  • SLurl: Location-Based Linking in Second Life
    Direct SLURL to that crooked house link I posted a couple days ago
    (tags: secondlife SLurl awesome hack)
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  • New World Notes: -- AND HE REZZED A CROOKED HOUSE
    sweet. There's no SL Location in the article, but I'm totally gonna go look for this later. "And be built a crooked house" is one of my favorite RAH short stories, and the implementation of this hypercube house seems pretty awesome.
    (tags: secondlife awesome hack)
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  • Never Trust a Skinny Chef...: Little Brown Egg I: Condo-Q
    heh. Somebody besides Alton Brown made a ceramic smoker. Looks pretty good, and there's apparently a followup story where the smoker is actually used, too.
    (tags: hacks cooking DIY goodeats)
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  • Opera on Nintendo DS: Hands on Review - Orgs Tech Times - by Jon
    I am so buying this the minute it's released in the US.
    (tags: nintendo browser tools review)
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  • Intl. Business: How not to be the “ugly American” | 43 Folders
    (tags: business travel lifehacks etiquette tips)
    • ]]>     http://devlogic.org/2006/06/23/links-for-2006-06-23/feed/     Vader of the Opera http://devlogic.org/2006/06/22/vader-of-the-opera/ http://devlogic.org/2006/06/22/vader-of-the-opera/#comments Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:15:38 +0000 devlogic http://devlogic.org/2006/06/22/vader-of-the-opera/ Hah! This is pretty funny, although there's some issues with one of the voices being WAY lower than the other. But still pretty funny. I guess it'd be better if I'd actually seen Phantom of the Opera, but still...

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  • MouseWax
    (tags: webcomics monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday)
    • ]]>     http://devlogic.org/2006/06/22/links-for-2006-06-22/feed/     Ah, hard drives http://devlogic.org/2006/06/21/ah-hard-drives/ http://devlogic.org/2006/06/21/ah-hard-drives/#comments Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:31:23 +0000 devlogic http://devlogic.org/2006/06/21/ah-hard-drives/ So the nice 120-GB drive that I installed a back in February has started clicking. This is a bad thing. It probably means that the drive head is snapping to one extent or the other of its travel distance. If it happens enough, the drive will permanently fail. As it is, it's sometimes enough of an error that my laptop will stop recognizing the drive altogether, and I get the nice "no hard drive detected" logo when I reboot.

    Needless to say, I am not pleased with this situation.

    Luckily, WD has already approved my RMA, and is shipping me an advance replacement. New drive should be here in a week or so (I estimate), and I'll buy a UPS Ground label (about 6 bucks) and ship the bad drive back to them. I'll be doing a full random-wipe before I ship it, of course.

    There are two irritating parts about all of this.

    First (and, I think, the more time-consuming of the two), I need to do a full backup of the old drive, and restore onto the new one. Hopefully this won't be too bad; I should be able to do it all without too much heartache. The bad part is just waiting for the stupid backup to finish; last time I tried, it ran for about 5 hours before I killed it (and came to work). I think I'll start the new backup when I get home in this morning, and then do a "catch-up" run when the new drive arrives. Of course, the alternative is to just wait until the drive arrives, then hook it up in the USB enclosure and do the backup straight to that drive instead of using an interim device. Yeah, that's a great idea. I'll obviously still be doing a full backup anyway onto the other 120 that I've got in the enclosure right now, but I like this other idea; it'll save me boatloads of headache.

    Oh, yeah: second - I have to open my laptop again. And since I don't have a MacBook, it means about 40 bazillion tiny screws and other pieces instead of just 4 screws and a small memory shield. But this is relatively inexpensive (I just have to pay for return shipping), so I'm willing to accept the hassle. Besides, it's not like I haven't done it several times before:

    1. I installed the new hard drive
    2. When installing the new HD, I forgot to reconnect the mouse. Took laptop apart again to fix that.
    3. I installed the new bluetooth module
    4. I installed the new SuperDrive
    5. When installing the new SuperDrive, I again forgot to reconnect the mouse cable. Grr.

    So this will only make the sixth time I've had to open it up, and this time I actually have a "black stick" (it arrived the day after the SuperDrive did).

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  • 10 Ways to Optimize Your Normal Days
    Something that might be fun to try some day; a way to increase your productivity AND enjoy life more fully.
    (tags: lifehacks inspiration howto productivity)
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