Windows 7 users:
ACPI\ENE0100\3&33FD14CA&0 == IR receiver.
Open device manager, show hidden devices, select above, and select update driver, “browse my computer”. Point to the folder created when extracting this archive. Do not run the EXEs contained withing the archive.
2009/06/20
A fix needs to be published, in English.
2009/05/29
Google Wave
I hate AJAX with a passion, mainly due to it’s overabundant use for benign tasks. That aside, this is amazing!
2009/05/14
Cleanup Ubuntu.
A simple cleanup script by David Francos.
#!/bin/bash
Y="\033[1;33m"; R="\033[0;31m"; E="\033[0m"
function cleanapt(){ apt-get clean; }
function emptytrash(){ rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null && rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null && rm -rf /home/*/.Trash* && rm -rf /root/.Trash*; }
function removeconffiles(){ dpkg -P `dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}'`; }
function removeoldkernels(){ apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l|awk '{print $2}'|grep -E $LINUXPKG |grep -vE $METALINUXPKG|grep -v `uname -r|cut -d. -f1,2`-`uname -r |cut -d\- -f3,4`|grep -v `uname -r|cut -d\- -f1,2`); }
if [ $UID != '0' ]; then
echo -e $R"Error: must be root, cleaning user's trash"$E
rm -rf $HOME/.Trash* $HOME/.local/share/Trash/*/**
exit 1
else
echo -ne $Y"Cleaning apt cache ..."$E && cleanapt 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Removing old config files ..."$E && removeconffiles 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Emptying trashes ..."$E && emptytrash 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Removing old kernels ..."$E && cleanapt 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
fi
2009/04/29
2009/04/25
I NO TWEET!
OMG U SHIT! FIRST!
orckaiwin you get a twitter account yet?
godsyn no
godsyn i no tweet
orckaiwin you should tweet. You know what you’re missing.
godsyn … absolutely nothing
orckaiwin Minimalistic status updates with practical uses shortened to 140 characters with @ commands and # topics.
godsyn … I don’t care what others are doing…
orckaiwin Others care what you are doing! 
godsyn I’m annoyed by the 160 character limit on SMS.. You can barely complete a sentence.
Thought becomes broken, and conveyed opinions and thoughts are near-impossible.
I speak and type long winded, and prefer the whole story, instead of just the headline.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was a wonderful book, but I wouldn’t give two shits about it if all I read was the title.
Twitter appeals to “first”
There is no substance. I’ll pass, for a more in-depth internets.
godsyn or in twiterspeek: twtrsux lol.
2009/04/16
HP is a bitch
I have/had an HP dv9000 series laptop. I used it for work, and for play. The GPU blew out (overheated) while sitting idle on a desk just one week after the one year manufacturers warranty expired. I called, referred from various class actions, other blogs, and general forums about those with similar or the same issue, and they denied any responsibility of their product.
The calls: This occured at around four o’clock, and I called for support, thinking they would just suck up the loss and send me a new laptop. I was mistaken. After battleing with their voice prompt IVR, which only understands Indian (dots, not feathers) accents, I was forwarded to (suprise suprise!) someone who didn’t speak english. I’m not implying his accent was bad, as that would be an understatment. The human on the other line skimmed over an ??? to english book, and said “ok, I are can be now doing technical supports now, sir.”. I was greeted, and my name was taken. Then my account was verified. Verification of accounts and serial numbers is a painful process. “one, two q as in queen.” “ok, dat iz ha-one, two, g as in geen (I believe he meant green).” After the static data was transferred, I explained my problem, which he didn’t understand. Apparently “gpu” isn’t something you need to know as technical support for personal computers, as I had to explain that it meant “graphical processing unit” many times. Ultimately he said that if I wanted technical support, that I would have to pay $49.95 per incident as my warrenty had expired. My reply was that technical support was not what I was calling for. The “support” portion of the issue had been resolved personally. I knew what the issue was, I just needed technical repair. He gave me another number, and told me to call back later. I call back, and get someone a little more accent nerutal, but just as stupid. He explained that in order for me to repair my laptop, that I’d have to ship it to their repair location, and it would cost me over $800 to repair. Seeing as this is a known issue I asked if the $800 repair would come with a warrenty. It of course, did not.
2009/04/04
Summer of code VS. Microsoft
2009/02/26
2009/02/21
Ony is dead.
Back in the day I was a addicted to World of Warcraft. I played not for end-game, but for the members of my guild (was 100+ strong at one point) and the fun we had together. I was alliance (not my fault, my (now) wife was alliance, and drug me in kicking and screaming), and a mage. Those are two horrid strikes against any wow player, but I had fun.
I was a nogg-aholic and my interest in the game started to diminish shortly after wall-walking was patched. I still explored, but with clipped wings. I never used any glitches to gain an advantage over others, and avoided battle-grounds like the plague, as did most nogg-aholics.
All that interested me in World of Warcraft is now dead. Exploration is all but moot in the expansions, and the new content (much of B.C. was released with 1.0, but not implemented until the first expansion) of Northend further destroys the continuity of World of Warcraft.
When I started, there were memories made in the following order.
- The boy king of Stormwind
- The Defias
- Van Cleef
- The missing diplomat
- Lady Prestor
- Onyxia attunement
- Onyxia
That sums up WoW 1.0’s story in a nutshell… it all intertwined into a beautiful cliffhanger with an epic ending…
oh, by the way.. 1 4 5 and 6 were removed in the latest patch.
2009/02/09
Skype 4.0 sucks
Boobs were all that made this new window style slightly tolerable.
I use Skype for secure text communications while I work.
Granted there are alternatives, there are none as simple. Install, login, go. Anything more complicated and the cattle would become confused and scatter. Hell, some have issues with just the above steps.
Skype recently updated their software with an “improved” user interface. While this is nice for the “aol age”, it is absolute ass for those that work.
- The screen real estate has been wasted with tons of white space.
- The nick-list is now a horizontal bar along the top.
- The left side of a chat box is reserved for nicks alone.
- The right side of the chat box is reserved for time stamps.
- Icons are huge.
- There is no real compact view.
- There is no color customization like there was in 3.x.
- You can no longer decide what “tabs” to display.
- Tabs are gone. Everything (except history) is in the main window.
- File transfers are now inline (does not have a separate window) , and have less information.
- There is a constant advertisement at the top of the main window (this has been the case, but not for the “business” version).
- Will not allow DX9 full screen applications to launch.
- “Not Available” mode is gone.
- “Send Contacts” is removed.
- Will not allow my laptop to wake from suspended mode.
- “SkypeMe” mode is gone.