Well, the Uru for Mac client was, in fact, not released this week, as prophesied by Kato. I love hate to say I told ya so, but…
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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Vista Stuff
Well, now that I have Windows Vista it’s time for a review. So far I like Vista a lot, it’s very shiny and good-looking. Many things are still the same as with XP, and some stuff is left over that doesn’t even do anything (ClearType options are still there, but they do nothing). So far I’ve only used a few programs that are incompatible with Vista. They were the Boot Camp drivers (made for XP, some don’t work that hot in Vista…) and (sadly) Trillian. The first time I ran it, Vista complained that Trilly couldn’t use Aero, so it disabled Aero for the whole system while Trilly is open. Even though I have now set Trilly to run without Aero, Vista still turns the glass effects (which are über cool, by the way) off when I launch it. Oh well, I’ll figure it out eventually.
The biggest problem I’ve had so far is (I think) due to the airport card drivers. It doesn’t seem to recognize my wifi at all, since my wifi doesn’t always broadcast its name. In OS X, you just tell it to connect to the name and it does, but in Vista you can only add the network to your list of automatic networks and wait for it to find it. Since it never finds the network, it won’t connect, and since there’s no way to manually connect to a network without a broadcasting name, I’m basically screwed.
Also, I’d like to be able to use my Boot Camp partition through Parallels, so I can try out Coherence and use Trillian in OS X, but I can’t figure out how to use a Boot Camp partition as a virtual machine. Does anyone know how to do this?
Mystery Packages 3 and 4 Part 2
Thanks for that beautiful spoiler, Cutter. Just for that, I’m not linking to you 😛
Anyway, I finally got around to making a Tabblo of the unboxing of my two newest toys, a WD Mybook 320gb Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate. They’re very fun so far, I kept the Mybook with its Fat32 formatting, since its only limitation is that it cannot hold files larger than 4gb. It’s cross-platform, which is what I really need. And it’s actually 300gb, but whatever. Thats still plenty.
So anyway, here are the photos.
The Mybook is good, but the capacity LEDs have so much bleed that it’s pretty much impossible to read them. Oh well, there’s only 5gb used on it so they shouldn’t be on at all…And it produces a low hum (it is a hard drive, after all), which is amplified by my desk, unless I lay it on its side. That’s ok though, since it was designed to go horizontally or vertically.
Mystery Packages 3 and 4
I got 2 more mysterious (for you, at least) packages today…One was in a small bubble-wrap pouch and the other in a mid-sized cardboard box. Both are computer-related, and photos will be up by this time tomorrow. Ain’t I a stinker?
My First Cocoa App
Today I made my first Cocoa-based App for OS X. It’s called PieText.app, and is a very very simple text editor. It’s features are rich text, printing, a ‘clear all text’ button, and a special limited edition button, the Pie button. It prints a special message in the document.
It’s extremely basic, yes, but I figured out how to use XCode and make this app using this tutorial and this one. They are very well written and illustrated, and best of all, there are no prerequisites to doing them, no coding skillz or anything, they will teach you what you need to know.
There’s only two so far, but there’s a (not so) subtle hint that he’ll write more if people donate money to him.
MotoKrzr K1
So I finally got a new phone. I felt it was really time, my old one was almost years old, and it really showed. I just couldn’t stand having such a POS phone anymore, so I bought a MotoKrzr K1 in blue. It’s an awesome phone, worlds better than my previous Ericsson Z500a. It has a 2mp camera, Bluetooth 2.0, and a ton of other features. So far it’s a great phone, I just have a few issues with it. First of all, the buttons are slightly raised and rubberized, and thus leave smudges on the screen in the pattern of the keypads. This is just an aesthetics issue, and I’ve seen it on Razrs as well. It’s easily fixed by wiping down the screen, but it seems a shame to have such a flaw in the shiny beauty that is the Krzr. My second problem is that sometimes the button in the upper left-hand corner sticks, and presses twice rather than once. I usually don’t use this key anyway, since the middle directional button does the same action, but it’s a bit annoying. The last problem isn’t with the phone itself, but the cingular website. It is just impossible to use. Apart from constantly being logged out and stuff, and features that only function in IE (*shudder*), the interface is horrible, and the thought that they charge such exorbitant prices for phones and services and can’t be bothered to even make a decent website makes them seem even more evil.
But aside from those 3 points, I love my new phone. No name yet, but I’m flipping through The Odyssey to find a good nymph to name it after (peripherals are almost always nymphs in my mind).
And of course, the obligatory unboxing photos:
Uru For Mac
Well, it’s official now. In a few weeks, us Mac users will be able to play uru on our macs, provided they are Intel-based. There’s a mac beta right now, but it’s private (invitation only), so I haven’t gotten a chance to experience it yet, but I really can’t wait until I won’t have to reboot to use Uru…That will be awesome.
Also, Uru Live was officially launched (taken out of beta) on the 15th, and a new age called Eder Tsogahl should be released very very soon. Hooray hooray…
Edit: Kato is right, I just checked and Eder Tsogahl is indeed already out. Thanks, man.
Edit 2: Fine, the Mac client is supposed to be released ‘next’ week, meaning this week. Now stop bothering me Kato, and don’t say I didn’t tell you so when it is delayed 😉
Happy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day, everybody! And for all you fellow Bostonians, good luck in all this snow….I can’t believe I didn’t get a snow day today…
OMGAPPLESTORE
Woot. We Bostonians are getting our very own Apple shrine store! Yes, we had ones in malls and stuff before, but this will be one of them 3 story glass cubes of a store, like the famous Fifth Avenue Store. Socool!
Hackers are attacking the tubes!
Today the 13 Intertube root nameservers (the things that turn ip addresses into urls and vice-versa) were attacked by a few South Korean hackers, in an attempt to clog up the Tubes so badly we wouldn’t be able to use them. 3 of the servers were overwhelmed over a period of around 12 hours, but the other 10 were just fine, so nobody really saw any of the effects of this attack. Still, it’s apparently the worst attack against the Tubes since 2002. Huh.