http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net Plug yourself in. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:59:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So its been a while, but I have some updates on my OS escapades. First, I bought a new computer (well, my wife bought it for me), its an HP a6750y, Quad-Core AMD CPU, 8g of RAM, an onboard ATI HD3200 video card (which I replaced with an old ATI X1300 ... http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=32 Ok, so I got my 80gb Zune a while back and have been loving it. The Zune software I never really used for anything other than syncing until recently (today actually) when I got a Zune Marketplace card for Christmas. 2000 points to spend. I bought a few Six Feet ... http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=30 Carthik over at Ubuntu Blog made a nice post detailing how to convert rpm files to deb packages as well as other distro formats. Installing using an RPM file http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=29 I received the following email from Creative today regarding a class action lawsuit filed against them due to the amount of storage on their HDD MP3 players being misrepresented by about 7%. SUMMARY EMAIL NOTICE To: gviscardi@gmail.com ... http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=28 Ok, so I bought Bioshock the other day (I know, about 6 months late) and started playing it after hearing nothing but how intense and deep the story is and many other great reviews of the game. Well...I don't get it. I played for about 3-4 hours, finished the first ... http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=20 Ok, so I found this on YouTube and found it quite interesting, I'm gonna have to give it a shot here pretty soon... How to make lockpicks. http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=26 I wrote this script to help keep my maplist.txt file updated. I tried to write it in Perl but unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with Perl to actually do anything with it, so I wrote it in PHP. Its rather simplistic and should work for any game that uses "maplist.txt" ... http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=24 Ok, so to go along with the new "rewiring" of the site, I also upgraded to WordPress 2.5. Of course, Mr. Jeff Atwood over at CodingHorror.com doesn't agree, as his post here makes sure to point out. By all means I think his point of view is quite acceptable however ... http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=22 Ok, yeah so the whole building a linux box didn't go exactly as planned, but I got slackware 12.0 up and running on the old box and now its used for a Counter Strike: Source and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year server (if interested let me know and I'll ... http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=19 Ok, so the FreeBSD didn't work out for me, I don't have any blank CD's left and dont have the ability to merge all the CD's into a DVD. Since all I have are multiple blank DVD's, I'm downloading slackware 12.0 and gonna throw that at my box...hmm, sounds kinky, ... http://hard-wire.pocketwatchmafia.net/?p=17