E3 – R.I.P.

Well, it appears that E3, the Electronics Entertainment Expo, is dead.  Something about cost vs. return for the participants was out of kilter.

Check out the story on Joystiq here.

Looks like I fell victim to the rumor mill.  40 lashings for me.

Trying Linux again… :::sigh:::

Will I ever learn?

I was reading a thread about how OpenSuSE 10.1 is buggy as hell, particularly when it comes to installing the bootloader (duh!) A few people had said that 10.0 was a much more stable release, so I fired up the bit torrent client and grabbed the OpenSuSE 10.0 .iso file. 

Got it installed, and indeed, it wrote the bootloader without an incident.  Played around in it for awhile, but really wanted to go to 10.1 so I could reinstall XGL, so I did the update routine with a bit of trepidation.  Amazingly, everything worked just fine and I got XGL working again.

Only, after getting XGL working, I was unable to launch Firefox from the desktop shortcut.  Jeez – is anything going to go correctly when it comes to Linux?

Vista – I’m so glad the bitch is gone…

Well, was finally able to get Vista fully removed from my machine.

Decided to install Kubuntu 6.0.6. Amazingly, it didn’t fry the MBR during installation, but something else odd happened (Although, I now know why.)  For this particular attempt, I decided to install Linux over the top of the Vista install. After installing Kubuntu and rebooting, I was presented with the Linux bootloader (don’t recall whether it was LILO or GRUB, but it doesn’t matter.) So, I boot into Linux to make sure everything is working correctly.  After getting the networking set up, I reboot to check that XP works.

Here’s hoping that Street Fighter II sucks…er, doesn’t suck. Yeah, that’s it!

Okay – I had previously posted a rather snide comment about how I hoped that Street Fighter II for the 360 would fail miserably.  After rethinking my position, I don’t hope that it sucks afterall. 

Will I buy it?  Hell no. Do I think people are f*cking insane for being so excited for this game? Definitely.

After much consideration, there IS one good thing about SFII finally being released…

At least there will be one less thing for these people to bitch about in public forums.

Whiny Gamers Redux

Found over at MajorNelson Dot Com:

SoSickOfYou said: 

Hey, whiners! Shut the f**k up. We’re all tired of hearing you complain and whine about: a)the cost of DLC b)the timing of DLC and c)everything else. I know, I know…you live with your mommy and since the girls won’t talk to you, your 360 is all you have. We understand that you lack perspective, as teenage retards often do, but we’re all just really sick of it, okay? If you don’t like the price, the date, or the quality of something, don’t buy it. If you think your whining is going to have an effect on pricing, then go talk to the people setting the price, and do it with a private email so the rest of us don’t have to be embarrassed by your idiotic antics. If that’s too difficult, then just shut up and go away.

Nice to see I’m not the only one who thinks gamers are a spoiled, whiny bunch.

Thank you, Norton Ghost!

For some strange reason, I decided to do a Norton Ghost “backup” of my active system drive this morning.  Don’t ask me why, I just got a wild hair, I guess.

 So, then I have the whole “Linux debacle.”  Unable to boot into Windows after Linux screwed the MBR (see previous post below.)

Here’s what I tried:

Linux is pissing me off…

Well, attempted to reinstall Linux today, and guess what?  It fucked my MBR again(!) so now WinXP won’t boot anymore.  :::sigh::: And Linux supporters wonder why the masses won’t use it?  Could it be because of occurances like this?

Actually, it’s probably not Linux’s fault in this case.  It was working once before, but now, it refuses to correctly write the MBR.  If anyone has suggestions (real, legitimate suggestions, not smartassed comments,) please comment.

XBox 360… 361… whatever it takes.

Jeez, everyone’s blogging these days…  even my XBox 360!

ScannerRob

ScannerRob

Originally uploaded by okiegeek.

I’ve been digging on the trailer for the upcoming movie, “A Scanner Darkly” for a couple of months now. I’ve really grown to love the animation style. My wife says that one of the major insurance companies has a television ad campaign with graphics similar to “A Scanner Darkly,” but I can’t remember who it is.

I found a Photoshop macro/script HERE that creates a comic book styled image. After removing the color halftone, this is what’s left. It’s in the vain of Scanner, but not exact.

XGL Screenshots

XGL Screenshot 1

Originally uploaded by okiegeek.

That’s my blog on the left, and Gmail on the right, each in one of Linux’s multiple desktops. Hold Ctrl and Alt, left click and drag right or left to change desktops with 3D acceleration.

xgl_desktop2

Transparent windows. Each window’s transparency can be adjusted on the fly. You can also make windows become transparent when moving them on screen.

xgl_desktop3

Similar to Apple’s F9 command, a user-defined hotkey will shrink all onscreen windows and display them so you can easily navigate from one window to another. Very handy when you have multiple windows buried on your desktop.

xgl_desktop4
Not a “productivity booster,” but interesting all the same. OpenGL and 3-D hardware can produce some interesting results. This is a window that’s being moved onscreen.