Where Have All The Updates Gone?
To all the people that read this site with any sort of regularity, I think there are a few of you out there right? Well in the last few months I have been really good about updating the site, yet this week bubkis. The reason? I have been doing very little but work, and battling my internet connection problems for the last week. What problems you ask? Oh please let me tell you.
A week ago, almost exactly, my internet / network had a hickup. Nothing that big, but I checked my network configuration and found nothing wrong with it, so I assumed my ISP was having problems and would be fixed the next day. Well, the next day comes around although most of the Windoze PCs on the network are working ok, but kinda slow, on the internet, my trusted iBook, although I can “ping” everything in my network, I can’t get out past my router…no web browsing, no outward FTP, nothing but intra-network operations. So I think that maybe my iBook is the problem. Could be iBook have turned on me? Did that last security update mess something up? If something did go wrong with my iBook, how can I show my face after gloating to all my Windows using buddies?!
So I spent some time on the Apple Discussions site asking them for solutions, no luck, only lame or other suggestions that I have already tried. So I decided to backup and reformat my iBook, still no luck. Next stop, the Local Apple Store, so after my interview on Thursday I stopped by and had them check it out. …Nothing is wrong with it. Now I’m pissed. I call my ISP, ask them if they did any forced firmware upgrades on my modem without my knowledge. The dipshit on the phone doesn’t even know what “firmware” is. Which is fine as long as you don’t work tech-support for an ISP. I call back again to try and get someone different. This time the guy tries to walk me through a bunch of tests that I tried 5 days ago, finally I convince him, and I think myself, that the DSL modem/router is my problem and they are sending out a new one. Hopefully it will come tomorrow, Wednesday at the latest. If this doesn’t work, I’ll be completely out of options. Right now, my iBook will work for a little while and then stop, but my PCs will work fairly regularly. Wish me luck!
Oh yeah, the updates. Well I do most everything on my iBook, including my news searches and updates, so with my iBook out of commssion on the internet, it leaves Hell Yeah Bitch! .com a bit paralyzed. Hopefully I can get my on schedule as soon as possible.
(If you see a solution to my problem that I don’t, please drop a comment for me!)
Real World and Its Real Lame Bandana Lovers
I don’t seem to watch MTV’s the Real World like I did a few years back, but watching it tonight (in between my networking struggles) and I noticed something: There is always at least 1 male cast member that likes to wear bandanas or “dew rags” on their head from time to time. I don’t know if the producers of the Real World have stock in some bandana company but if you think about it… Yeah, a lot of girls do it, especially when it is in style, but no matter the style at the time, there is always at least one guy that wears a dew-rag at times during the show.
My theory? Well I have always thought that it takes a “special” type of guy to even atempt to pull off the dew-rag. They can be very nice I’m sure…but if you are wearing, or like the way it looks, you must be at least a little weird. You know, one of those guys that just thinks he plain kicks ass, but really, if you step back and look at the stuff he does, you can plainly see that he is either a douche-bag or just a freakin’ idiot. We all know at least one of those guys. Ok, so how do at least one of these guys end up on the Real World every season? Well just look at the “Real World Formula”: 1 Bitch + 1 Gay Person + 1 Tough Guy (this is our guy) + (at least) 1 Minority + 1 Misc. Weird Person That Will Posibly Quit Did you follow that math?
Think about it…I’m right. You know I am.
Yo Yo Yo! Hasselhoff Raps!
Oh yes. Its true. David Hasselhoff, a musical god in Germany, has recently decided to try his hand at a hip-hop career. Not only that, but he has gotten the approval of one of the most hard-core rappers ever, Ice-T, who is producing the record. Yeah, I know…I can’t expain it either. I don’t know if Ice-T is honestly a Hasselhoff fan or he has just been on the set of Law and Order for too long and has lost his edge. Either way, this will be fun to see how this turns out.
GANGSTA pioneer ICE-T aims to turn DAVID HASSELHOFF into a rap star — by producing the ex-Baywatch actor’s first hip hop album.
Ice who paved the way for 50 CENT and EMINEM, told me: “The man is a legend. We are going to show a whole new side of him.”
The unlikely lads are near neighbours in Los Angeles and have struck up a close friendship.
Ice is convinced medallion-man Hasselhoff can take on the biggest names in rap. He said from a New York hotel: “He’s gonna come out as Hassle The Hoff.
“The Hoff will surprise people with his rap skills and humour.”
All I can think about is Hasselhoff with a backwards hat on with a big gold chain with a clock on it…or like Warren Beatty on Bulworth.
Source: The Sun
Everyone goes here, noone talks about it.
I just recently got to see the movie Mean Girls. I have to say, that as far as that genre, high-school girl drama movies, goes, that was pretty good. I mean, the fact that Lindsay Lohan and the other girls in the movie being remarkably hot aside, it had some humerous moments. Nothing laugh out loud funny, but worthy of a chuckle or two.
Anyway, seeing that movie coupled with the last episode of VH1′s Best Week Ever, just made me think of this site that I ran across a few months ago and figured I’d bring it to the attention of all the teenage guys out there. (Though I’m sure this site is more than likely frequented more so by old guys.)
The site is called Thats Just Not Right.com, and yes…its all about the recent surge of young, fairly attractice teenage girls that seem to be popping up all over the place. i.e. Lindsay Lohan, Hiliary Duff, Mandy Moore, and of course…the Olsen Twins. The site is pretty funny, it has a pretty big community that posts frequently too. Check it out, its worth a laugh….but its not like I go there, I’m no perv.
The iPod Division: A Harbinger For the Demise of The Mac?
Could the recently created iPod division at Apple be a sign that the creation and sale of Mac computers could be coming to an end? Seems doubtful. But a recent article by Robert X. Cringely makes the argument that, if Apple’s porfits begin to wane more and they make the “budget friendly” switch over to the intel processor, then there is a posibility Mac computers could be reaching the end of the line.
I’m not saying this is going to happen, but I think it will happen if Apple has any trouble at all maintaining its margins under the current strategy. Absolutely look for the rape of the resellers, and then MAYBE look for the end of Macintosh hardware. But iPods and iTunes will be everywhere, even here in Charleston, which has a Target store, but is more than 100 miles from the nearest Macintosh dealer.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. I’m skeptical that this will happen any time soon, but if Apple could get OS X (or whatever they are on too when and if the switch happens) to run on an Intel or AMD machine I would be ok with that. But I would hope that some hardware company would take the torch from Apple and make cool, nice, great working hardware…Sony maybe?
Article Link: Divide and Conquer: Why Apple Has an iPod Division
Leo Says Goodbye…AGAIN
Yesterday was one of the saddest days of my life. We put Call for Help to bed Wednesday. You’ll see the last episode on Friday, but for those of us who have been making the show for six years a huge and important chunk of our lives is over.
G4 is shopping the show and it’s possible another network will pick it up. I pray someone does. I’ll keep doing it if I have to fly to Sandusky twice a week. Somehow, somewhere, Call for Help has to live on, if only for the folks who have come to depend on the show for their computer help. I know so many moms and grandfathers and kids and just plain folks for whom Call for Help was an introduction to technology. The show helped get so many people on track, and I feel like we’re letting many more down by not doing it any more. Cross your fingers that some network executive somewhere is willing to take a chance on a funky little show that makes such a big difference in people’s lives.
Hopefully Call For Help will live on, or at least Leo can get a show like it somewhere else…although it was a little basic for me, but it is a show that should be out there somewhere.
Source: The Laporte Report: Last Call
What Would You Do For A GMail Account?
If you were is some dire need of a GMail account, for some reason, what would you be will to trade for one? 4 lbs of fresh fudge? A picture of your “cute toes”? Or a picture of two girls kissing? (I might do that last one.) Well those are all real examples of what people are willing to trade for the exclusive right to be the owner of a beta GMail account. Granted some have sold their GMail accounts on EBay for upwards of $60…but if you would rather have some good ole swag instead of money, gmail swap is the place for you.
“For weeks, I had been hearing people complain about their desperate need for Gmail, and I thought it was silly — and a little sad — there was no recourse other than eBay,” said Sean Michaels, the creator of gmail swap. It “came out of my firm belief that nice people were out there somewhere, ready to answer the pleas of the masses, but that there simply wasn’t a conduit for the two groups to get in touch.”
The question I have is what the hell is so great about a GMail account? Yeah, they give you 1 GB of space, but I have been downloading my email via pop3, to my HD for years now and I haven’t gotten close to 1GB saved. So whats the big rush? On top of that, its in beta…but it will go public eventually. So unless you are waking up in the middle of the night with cold sweats becuase you really want “Bertha@gmail.com” then what is the rush?
I just don’t see the point, but if you read through some of the offerings for an account, they can be pretty funny.
MovableType 3.0 and Hell Yeah Bitch! .com
For those of you that are bloggers yourself, you are most likely familiar with MovableType. If you aren’t, well MovableType is a blogging tool, the actual tool that I now use on this site so that I can update it frequently and not have to mess with a lot of updating of actual HTML/PHP code.
Well, MovableType has just recently introduced the newest verion, 3.0, of thier blogging software to developers….
Mac System 7.0 via Flash
Some web designers decided to take a trip down Mac-memory lane and create an emulator for the old System 7.0 OS for Macs. The difference for this emulator is that it is all done through your web browser via flash. Its not all in english…but you can understand enough to play with it for a while. Its pretty neat.
Check it: Worldwides first simulation of MacOS 7.0
How To Sell Apartments
Over at ForeverGeek there was a nice little article about how the author helped the owner of his apartment complex hook up wireless internet throughout the three-story, brick-walled, apartment building. Sounds boring, but if you are ever planing on doing a full-scale wireless project anywhere, even your own house, its a good read.