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 Posted June 10th, 2009 at 10:36PM
So I do not have a rational explanation for it, but I signed up at twitter a few months ago, and have been trying to “do it.” The single upshot I suppose is that I’m able to send updates via the phone. But why exactly would I send updates in the first place?
I’m probably going to delete my account. In any case, I twitted about getting perfect scores on the GRE. I was emulating the official ETS PowerPrep software on my Mac, using Q and Win XP, and taking the first practice test. After taking the second one and still receiving a perfect score, I said no way and plugged in garbage answers to which the result was… 800 / 800. So I went into my scheduled appointment last Saturday having no clue as to where I was performing. I must have not been feeling my vocab for the day, as I ended up with a 590 verbal. Math was 740 and I was expecting somewhat the reverse.
I’ll have more time to decide whether or not to try again for better results.
Posted January 18th, 2009 at 1:48PM
I’ve been trying to share media between my Powerbook and Playstation 3 so that I can keep all of my audio and video files on my external hard drive, and watch them on the TV. Haven’t figured it out yet (looks like 3rd party software is necessary). But in the process, I’ve gotten it so my PS3 is now online, wirelessly connected to dial-up! Woo!
So far I’ve been able to log into the Playstation Network and use the PS3 internet browser, but no multiplayer inside a game (keeps timing out, understandably). Also doesn’t help that all of my games are out of date and ask to download updates before connecting. It’d be a riot if I could attempt multiplayer over dial-up though.
Anyway, it took a lot of trial + error to get my laptop to share internet via AirPort (using “DHCP” – whatever that means), so here’s my former stumbling block:
Make Internet Sharing DHCP work with an Xbox/Xbox 360 (or PS3!)
(for OSX 10.4+)
- Start Internet Sharing if it’s not already running.
- Open NetInfo Manager, located in /Applications ยป Utilities. Authenticate as an administrator using the lock icon in the lower-left.
- Navigate to the /config/dhcp node (so that dhcp is selected in the browser pane).
- In the lower pane, find the reply_threshold_seconds property and change its value from 4 to 0.
- Quit NetInfo Manager and then restart your Mac.
- After the restart, open NetInfo Manager again and confirm that reply_threshold_seconds is still 0.
Hope it helps someone!
Posted July 20th, 2007 at 12:11PM
The Mac Mini’s modem apparently blew up, so I bought a replacement modem off of fleabay hoping to DIY. I’m innocently multitasking half a dozen programs when my laptop freezes. No problem, I’ve had it on for a week.
When I restart it, everything is ass-backwards and not functioning. My iTunes is borked, and the thing freezes every five minutes. I run the diagnostics thing included on the OSX disc (not expecting anything, since it didn’t tell me anything about the Mac Mini) and it sez I have a memory error.
I take out the additional 1gb of RAM I installed a few years ago, hoping for the best. Miracle of miracles, that is the culprit. My laptop is running fine, albeit with a paltry 256mb of RAM.
Moral of the story? Don’t buy cheap RAM. Or, alternatively, don’t expect it to last forever.
Expect more posts within the coming days. Stuff happens.
Posted January 12th, 2006 at 12:00AM
A few days ago, I wrote about my troubles with my lost Sims 2 DVD.
After posting that, I did one last search. And found what I was looking for. A no-DVD patch for The Sims 2 for Mac, version 1.0c. I found it on some random German cracks website. Actually, I think I might have found the same link back in Germany, but the site was either down, or blocked by my internet provider, or something. But I was able to download it back here in the states.
Since then, I’ve been playing the game non-stop.
Considering the PITA it was for me to find it, and what a stupid position brought me there, I’m providing the patch now, for anyone who might be in a similar position. Patches like these are not inherently illegal, and have plenty of legitimate uses. My case for instance.
No-DVD patch for The Sims 2 for Mac v1.0c
TheSims2v1.0c(4660).Crack.2.dmg (9.2MB)
Posted January 8th, 2006 at 7:56PM
So about a week before leaving for Germany, last August, I lost my Sims 2 CD. Now, I’ve been using Macs for nearly a year now, and I’ve only bought two games (the other being Republic, which was pretty disappointing). There are a few reasons for this: the number of games out on Mac is pretty low (and they are usually badly ported from PC, meaning they run poorly), I don’t really play much (both because I’m uninterested, and short on time), and I can’t justify spending the money on them.
But I had to get The Sims 2. And it was good, better than the first. I liked it, I played it. Then the CD went missing.
Halfway through the semester in Germany, I looked around online for a no-CD patch (“no-DVD” actually, but you know what I mean). And I found one! And it worked fine, and I played the game. Until one day, when I updated OSX to the latest version (either 10.4.2 or xx.x.3 back then, forget). And then Sims 2 started getting these weird screen artifacts, the menus started disappearing. In short, the game became unplayable.
Why? Why had this happened? No idea. I searched online, and found out that the latest OSX conflicted with Sims 2 for some reason. Odd, but they had a patch for the game! I downloaded the game, eager to play again. But alas! It ruined my no-CD crack! And trying to patch the game again brought it back down to version 1.0, bringing back the screen artifacts.
I can’t seem to find a new no-CD crack. And after tearing the house apart these last few days, I still can’t find my Sims 2 CD. I bought the game legally, give me a crack that lets me play it!
EDIT: I found the crack
Posted September 29th, 2005 at 2:59PM
Since having my Macs, I haven’t done a whole lot of instant messaging. There are a few reasons for this. One large reason, however, was because there isn’t a plug-and-play Mac version of GAIM. So I was stuck with AIM fer Mac. And this software was very poor indeed. It would crash every twenty minutes, for no reason at all. It was generally just a half-assed version of AIM.
Recently though, the great Bakshi tipped me off to Adium. Adium is an application that, like GAIM, can connect and chat with a variety of other applications — AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, etcetera.
But it is so much better than GAIM. And heads and heels above AIM fer Mac.
Aesthetically it blends in superbly with OSX. The amount of various user options is large, but more importantly, they provide a lot of flexibility with how the program looks and runs. Everything is intuitive, and it’s a very well-made and well-sorted program. In short — Adium is definitely the instant messaging program that you should be using on your Mac.
Posted May 21st, 2005 at 1:05PM
I’m starting to get use to the new Mac. Downloading a few SNES roms so that I’ll have something to do, since there are exactly 0 games made for Macs.
Still been wholly ignoring the news. Should probably keep up a little better, but it’s always so depressing. I want to relax a little during summer, fer chrissakes.
Might have a job lined up. And I’m still fooling around trying to get all the paperwork done for next fall. Want to fix the Saab soon. Probably going to just take it to our Saab mechanic, so he can go over it with a fine-tooth comb. Then maybe I’ll be able to convince my parents that we can take it out to Chicago this summer for Lollapalooza. It’d be great taking the Saab. Just need to make sure it’s mechanically tight beforehand.
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