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Stupid OS X Terminal

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? This is Panther’s OS X Terminal that got resized so small that it can’t be resized at all anymore. I’ve tried applescripts to resize the window but no luck. Egh I hate Apple right now.

XGL (Beryl) on Kubuntu Edgy Eft

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

I Finally got XGL ala Beryl installed on my home PC. It runs on Ubuntu with KDE (kubuntu) and it is running with Twinview. It is really awesome with all of the wobbly windows and rotating cube. I have a quick screencast below for you to see. The screencast tool that I used (ffmpeg) doesn’t […]

Stupid Broadcast Flag

Monday, June 20th, 2005

So in case you don’t know what the “Broadcast Flag” is, it is basically just a 16bit code inserted into over-the-air high-def transmissions that will stop people from recording the content. The retards in Hollywood are pushing this to the FCC and it looks like they may accept it.

The reason I don’t like this, […]

New Hackery

Monday, June 13th, 2005

So in case you were no aware of it yet, I broke my foot Dirt Biking. Because of this I am not gonna be able to work for about 6 weeks now. So to pass the time I bought some cheap little hacking projects. Four things to be exact; a JuiceBox, a CVS Digital Camera, […]

Carputer Screen

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

So I think that I have finally figured out how I want to finish the carputer for my car (A little redundant I know). Instead of actually fabricated the lcd screen into my dash I think I am going to get a motorized screen that sits inside the dash. When the car comes on it […]

Revolution

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

So out of all of the new systems coming out (XBOX 360, PlayStation 3, and of course Revolution) I found that the Nintendo Revolution seems to be by far the coolest of em all, assuming that they go with their promise. Supposedly the Revolution is gonna be able to play games from NES, SNES, […]

Carputer

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

So a while ago i bought a whole bunch of gadgets and setup my car to put a computer in it. So the things I am most excited about it for are as follows…
7 inch touchscreen LCD
160 gig hard drive for music/movies
Wifi for wardriving and using the internet while I’m parked
My cell phone data cable […]

Tivo and Yahoogle?

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

To begin with, let me make it clear that I LOVE my Tivo. I have one in my room and my parents have one in the living room (they are DirecTV series2 Tivo’s, so they don’t have all the bells and whistles as the normal ones do, nevertheless I <3 em). Today it was reported […]