A Series of Tubes

Well, today’s a sad day, and happy as well.

Today is the 2nd anniversary of Uru Live closing. Before I had a chance to play it…

But! Marie Sutherland (of the DRC) has announced that next week something will happen! 😀

Who knows? The ending hasn’t been written yet…

(Here’s my closing monolouge from the wake on Tapestry:
In memory of that great game that was Uru Live, which closed 2 years ago to the day. Although I was never a part of Live, I miss it dearly, and I wish with all my heart that I had felt the call then rather than now. So here’s to the future.
It’s something unprectable,
But in the end it’s right,
I hope you had the time of your life…)

Ok well my Uru shard is finally up and running! 😀
The address is tomatoshard.servegame.org, so if you have UU please log on and register, and leave a comment here! 🙂

HAPPYFUNTIME!

Microsoft has finally released Internet Explorer 7 beta 2. I must say, it has improved a lot since v6, what with consolidated menus, tab browsing, tab previews, and a kick-@$$ GUI to boot! I’ll update my IE when the official release comes out, but until it’s completely skinnable and extendable, as well as when all the security holes are fixed so it isnt as secure as a slice of swiss cheese, I’ll still be a faithful Firefox user.

Yes, you have heard this before. It’s in The Matrix, and about 1 million other movies. Apparently, it’s called ‘Spybreak!’.

I’m browsing through the iTunes library right now, looking for music to buy. I’m using the ‘Just For You – beta’ thing, to get recommended songs. I get to the end of the list.

I click the ‘more’ button, just in case, and there’s a pop-up that reads something like this.
‘Thank you for purchasing from iTunes. Your purchase is important to us. Please back up your music in case your computer fails.’

…So now I have to be worried about my computer ‘failing’? Oy…

I’ve decided that I want to run an Uru server. I have a computer I’m going to buy, but until then I’m using a little piece of crap computer that I got for free. It’s got 128mb of RAM and less than a 1ghz processor, which I don’t think is fast enough to run an anything server on, but it is something. I’m going to use the computer for practice installing Linux and the Uru servers, and possibly run a local Uru server on it. I’m using Ubuntu Linux 5.10 for the OS, because I like Ubuntu. It’s the king of freeware. It comes pre-installed with Firefox, Thunderbird, and The Gimp, three of the five best freeware programs on the internet (the free five are Firefox, Thunderbird, The Gimp, Blender, and Trillian). All computers should come equipped with them, sadly most do not.

Anyway, I’m going to post updates about the install here.

EDIT: Oh and I just realized that Tomato (the new computer) has 2 30gb IDE drives, which I can use in my 2 main computers when I get the real server (my computers require IDE drives sadly, but I can use these!). That means that I’ll have $300 to spend on whatever I want!

-7:26AM Ubuntu install disc is successfully burnt (I’m going to school now)
-7:45PM Ubuntu disc was incorrectly burnt, a new one is being burnt.
-7:47PM Ubuntu disc 2 is successfully burnt.
-8:00PM New cables from upstairs brought down here.
-8:14PM Ubuntu is installing
-7:25AM Ubuntu (with GUI) successfully installed! In fact, I’m posting from the linux computer now! 😀

PARTY TIME! I just reached my 2000th post on Uru and Myst Obsession! 1 day before my 1 year anniversary of joining them! 😀 SO HAPPY!

*Sings some holy song*
Ok, we had to re-register. BUT IT’S BACK! HAPPEH HAPPEH JOY JOY HAPPEH HAPPEH JOY JOY HAPPEH HAPPEH JOY JOY!
Woot.

Today is the birthday of the esteemed Rand Miller, CEO of Cyan Worlds and creator of Myst.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Ha ha… I was just posting a comment on Cutter’s blog, and the word verification was the word ‘ubujoah’ :P…
That made me laugh…