http://amethystmmc.com/blog Still in school. Working in tech. Trying to do some other things. Yippee. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:31:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great movie. Great scifi wrapped up in robots (who behave a lot like humans, but eh). Let's just get one thing straight. EVE does look like she was engineered by Apple, so you could say she's like Mac or whatever. But WALL-E sure as hell ain't Windows. He's Linux straight ... http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2008/07/02/wall-e/ Mass Effect and Spore were reported as being released with a 10 day authentication scheme in order to prevent piracy. As in you would have to authenticate every 10 days. Needless to say this caused a huge uproar and recently they have backed down to a new scheme, ... http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2008/05/10/pc-gaming-and-piracydrm/ Another title I considered was 'this is why I hate the internet.' There's a stink going on about PVP (pvponline.com) about how unfunny Kurtz has been lately, and how blah this and blah that, and waaaah. The two most relevant are this and this, posted in the authors ... http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2008/01/30/way-too-serious/ Forward these ports on your router (UDP I think, I left it as forwarding both services): 28962 44301 45301 This should fix the problem, go to the PB directory in the CoD4 install (C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\call of duty 4\PB by default) and run pbsetup.exe. Click 'Update' and see if you get an entry under ... http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2008/01/19/troubleshooting-punkbuster-in-cod4-steam-version/ Graduated, got hired, start work Tuesday! http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2008/01/19/ah-yeah/ I just told a friend who is going out to buy a floppy disc so he can boot into a minimal dos environment about one time I had to do a crazy hack network install to an old Vaio laptop that had neither floppy or cdrom, just a gimped install ... http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2007/11/24/whapen/ Finally. Assuming I pass this semester of course. http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2007/10/21/graduate/ Unf. http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2007/10/10/midterms-week/ Computing hardware remains fairly unchanged today. Sure, its bigger and faster, may have a new way of interfacing, or maybe its being used for a different purpose. However at some level it is inherently the same as it has been for 20 years or more in most cases. ... http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2007/10/03/modern-computing/ 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 ... http://amethystmmc.com/blog/2007/09/26/playstation-3-computing-power/