Still in school. Working in tech. Trying to do some other things. Yippee.
I became fascinated with the PS3, and specifically the Cell processor when I discovered that PS3s were whomping PCs for Folding@Home processing. Stats as of the writing of this entry showed a total of 173,398 PCs and 39,388 PS3s, a lot more PCs as expected. However look at TFLOPS per machine and PCs [...]
Type the following, line by line, in your terminal:
amixer set Master,0 100%,100% unmute
amixer set PCM,0 100%,100% unmute
amixer set Line,0 75%,75% mute captur
amixer set Capture,0 100%,100% captur
This will fix any issues you have with sound still playing whenever you’re not watching tv, and probably sound sync issues as well. It did for me. [...]
At this year’s Game Developers Conference, Chris Hecker of Maxis/Electronic Arts made an interesting observation of the Wii according to this article:
He believes that Nintendo does not treat gaming as an art form, but simply a tool for fun.
Hm. I’m as ready as most anyone passionate about video games to defend them [...]
Ubuntu doesn’t immediately recognize this card for some reason. There are many ways mentioned on the internet on how to fix this, however I found what I believe to be the simplest fix.
Perform the following before entering MythTV setup. If you are installing Ubuntu first and then MythTV then simply do this during [...]
ATI fails to deliver when it comes to MythTV. The problem stems from some ATI cards (afaik), when using VideoOverlay which is important for smooth tv viewing if you’re using a sotware tuner card, showing only the top 2/3rds or so of the stream. Apparently this is a driver issue and while there [...]
In press conference at New Mexico State University on Sept 4th, Virgin Galactic unveiled plans for a $31 million hangar-terminal according to the Las Cruces Bulletin. The facility is designed to blend with the landscape and be as environmentally friendly as possible; using solar panels, water-recycling, and passive heating and cooling systems. It [...]
We haven’t heard from either of the two copyright holders we contacted so we’re moving forward with making our own rules. This will take a little longer but the result will be a game entirely our own.
I have recently become quite addicted to this game, and through browsing around on the internet I noticed that the way most people recommend to trap animals is really quite inefficient. So here’s the method I came up with:
Make 4 or 5 snares (large traps) and gather 2 or 3 vines.
Go to the grasslands [...]
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