I just discovered that Adium (the best Mac IM client out there) is highly expandable, and very well supported by a huge community (all the mac users who aren’t using iChat, basically…). So I wasted no time in making it look awesome. I got new status icons, a new dock icon, and best of all a completely new theme, called Morpheus.
The end result is pretty awesome, I think. It went from default to this:
(the swirls are my desktop, you can get it here)
I just discovered that Adium (the best Mac IM client out there) is highly expandable, and very well supported by a huge community (all the mac users who aren’t using iChat, basically…). So I wasted no time in making it look awesome. I got new status icons, a new dock icon, and best of all a completely new theme, called Morpheus.
The end result is pretty awesome, I think. It went from default to this:
(the swirls are my desktop, you can get it here)
Well, I had a craving to play Myst V again, after listening to the soundtrack a bit. This time around, the installer worked smoothly (if slowly, due to it running in rosetta mode), as opposed to Last Time…
The game itself ran much better than the first time, there have probably been some rosetta optimizations since 10.4.4 or whatever it was I was originally using. I ran at 1280×800 (1680×1050 caused too much lag to be usable, and 1440×900 didn’t work for some reason…) with low video and texture quality, and no shadows. Anti-aliasing I sometimes had up and sometimes down. For some reason, the tunnels showed absolutely no lag on full specs, but Laki was unbearable….Well, at least I got to play through it again 🙂
Well, I had a craving to play Myst V again, after listening to the soundtrack a bit. This time around, the installer worked smoothly (if slowly, due to it running in rosetta mode), as opposed to Last Time…
The game itself ran much better than the first time, there have probably been some rosetta optimizations since 10.4.4 or whatever it was I was originally using. I ran at 1280×800 (1680×1050 caused too much lag to be usable, and 1440×900 didn’t work for some reason…) with low video and texture quality, and no shadows. Anti-aliasing I sometimes had up and sometimes down. For some reason, the tunnels showed absolutely no lag on full specs, but Laki was unbearable….Well, at least I got to play through it again 🙂
I saw Transformers back on Monday, it really came out the 4th of July though.
I’ll summarize my review:
IT KICKED SO MUCH ASS.
Ok now in-depth: It really did a great job maturing the beloved Transformers franchise, much better than TMNT did with that series. The Autobots were very well-made, though the Decepticons seemed a bit forced, their gathering scene kinda seemed like an excuse to introduce them all at the same time, and not have to develop them at all. Just a side-note: were Bonecrusher and Devastator in the original series? I don’t remember them…
There was one classic line I remember from the movie, Megatron says “You fail me yet again, Starscream.” How classic is that? And the (very) thinly veiled “more than meets the eye” lines? Clever. Very clever.
The action was good, the character development was good, Megan Fox was actually a pretty (gorgeous 😛 ) good choice for Michaela, since they made her more 3D than I thought they would.
One thing though. At the end of the movie, when Optimus is standing over the dying Megatron, one of the two says something along the lines of “I’m sorry, brother.” Did I imagine this? Are the two of them brothers?
The fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, opened last night, and I saw it today. The movie was very good, much better than the fourth though not quite as good as the third, I’d say. The director did a very good job cramming the longest book in the series (so far) into a little over 2 hours, whereas the fourth movie seemed to skip around way too much.
The movie was very dark, Harry pulled off an even more realistic emo than Peter Parker did in Spiderman 3. Professor Umbridge was amazingly well-casted, she really was a character you love to hate. My only beefs with the movie are that the Weasly brothers did a lot more in the book when they dropped out of school than just some fancy pyrotechnics. They had swamps in the halls and other things that lasted days, and also Cho Cheng was horribly cast. She’s supposed to be stunningly beautiful, I thought. Oh well. Luna Lovegood was very well done, and Dumbledore as well. Speaking of Dumby, I made a t-shirt for the movie premier:
Tee hee. The back lists such spoilers as “She kills Bill”, “42”, “He’s Luke’s dad”, “Rosebud is the name of his sled”, and “redrum is just murder reversed”. Yay for ironic spoilers 🙂
I took a visit to my local AT&T store today to test out the iPhone, and I’m proud to report that Zibland works almost 100%. The only thing which is broken (which I already knew), is the fancy slider you get if you press the ‘older’ link near the top of the page. This is because dragging your finger on the screen only scrolls, and doesn’t drag, which is how the slider works. I’m working on a fancy thing to figure out if you’re using an iPhone to offer you a more streamlined page (larger text, less fancy stuff, smaller images, etc…) Eventually, eventually.
iPhone review tomorrow! 😀
I used a live ubuntu disk (6.06, 7.10 doesnt work for some reason) to re-install ubuntu (luckily there wasn’t anything important on there…except my plasma server….I let go of my last shreds of UU today…), and then once i got in there i manually edited my boot/grub/menu.lst to remove all the excess entries (the memory tests and the different kernels, i never use them anyway) and add my osx86. I was about to add the XP parition when I realized that I wiped it yesterday…I don’t remember why I did that, but it’s not like it worked anyway.
So now I have a happy dual-boot server chugging down some low-seed torrents for me so i am free to turn off Eve and stuff without worrying about losing data or something. Yay 🙂
Maybe someday I’ll try out windows again, but I don’t know how to make the internet work on it…
(Thanks for your suggestion, LA…I had already done the above stuff when I got your comment ^.^)
So my awesome windows/osx86/ubuntu tri-boot machine I set up many moons ago is now pretty much kaput. Reinstalling XP was a really, really, really bad move, it turns out. It overwrote my hacked GRUB menu, so I could only use XP. Then, to make matters worse, XP somehow lost its ethernet card drivers, so I can’t get to the intertubes from the XP partition. So after 30 days, XP commits seppeku since I never activated it, since I couldn’t activate it, since it couldn’t access the net.
So basically I was stuck with a computer with 3 operating systems installed, but the only one which was accessible was the one which didn’t work. Then I discovered that by putting in the OSx86 disk, I can re-access my OSx partition, and re-bless the hard drive to make OSx the default OS. Now this is an improvement over a broken windows, but what I’m really looking for is the Ubuntu. Actually, I want the GRUB menu back so I can pick whichever I want, but I really have need of ubuntu right now.
So I try re-installing ubuntu. Actually, first I try downloading my torrent via the live image (I’m trying to use it as a torrent server), but it can’t see the ext3 partition on the hard drive for some reason, and it can’t write to ntfs or hfs+, so it tries to write it to the live disk and of course that fails, but first it seeds for an hour and a half before telling me it failed. Whee.
So I go to reinstall GRUB, since I know how to do it in Ubuntu, but after about 5 minutes I remember that I’m in the live disk’s filesystem, not the hard drive, and not only is installing GRUB pointless on a CD, it’s also impossible.
Tomorrow I’m going to try…something. Maybe a hammer would fix it up? This could end with me wiping the hard drive and starting over…If all the OS’s used the same filesystem I wouldn’t encounter these problems, because I could mount the mac or windows partition from linux and write the torrented files to them, or edit the GRUB menu on the linux partition from mac…We should all just use zfs…
I just got an e-mail from Circuit City about ‘BACK TO SCHOOL SALES!’
IT’S JULY. WTF.