Oh, this is nice…. Â I nearly didn’t get it…. There’s a nice in-joke in Sunday’s Schlock Mercenary comic… Â Namely the last panel’s quotes: Now these points of data make a beautiful line. And we’re out of Beta! We’re releasing on time! Anyone recognize it? Â If so, very good. Â All I will say is that I […]
Well, I started randomly having Steam report: Steam.exe (main exception): CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized): Partial field header at end of record This happened after windows froze on a lockup during shutdown… Â The system froze on Shutdown, and it didn’t complete shutting down after 10 minutes…. I was forced to force a power off… To solve this problem: Exit […]
I went through the CRU code below, and while I try to stay out of politics, this appears to be a programming issue with Politics embedded in it. I would hazzard a guess that this started as a cover-up from issues arising from bad programming choices, and unvetted data being used for a while…. Â And […]
12 to Midnight is presenting a sneak peak at East Texas University: Degrees of Horror. It is a complete setting book for Savage Worlds, and includes plot points, and everything else you need… Except for the basic Savage Worlds core rules… While this is a sneak peek, and not the complete book, it does have […]
Well, I guess that’s one myth debunked…? I wonder if we can get The Mythbusters on the case?
HandBrake 0.9.4: Released! or: Not Dead, Just Pining for the Fjords. Will wonders ever cease? Â HandBrake v0.94 is now out, except that the site’s download section isn’t working… Â (I’m sure it’s a planned outage… yeah, right…) “Creation comes out of imperfection.” There's an old proverb in the video encoding world: “Speed, size, quality: pick two.” […]
Evidently Safari may appear to hang, and cause slow system response if the Safari Cache files have been corrupted. — Snip — Recently, any time I tried to run Safari on 10.6 caused all apps and the Finder to hang with the spinning beach ball. Force-quitting Safari stopped the problem, but it would occur again […]
How can you lock your screen from another Macintosh? The following applescript will allow you to lock the screen, over the network, from any other macintosh. Just keep in mind, “Remote Apple Events” will probably have to be turned on (System Preferences -> Sharing). property ipNumber : ‘Real IP address here’ property userName : ‘real […]