The Movable Type 3.1 Question
Movable Type 3.1 hit the internet street today, and once again I am troubled on whether or not I should upgrade. On the one hand some of the new features look intriguing. Especially the “Flexible static and dynamic PHP publishing controllable on a per-template basis”. On the other hand, the free personal version only allows for 1 author and 3 weblogs. Which isn’t a problem so much unless I get more people to help write for me, then I couldn’t give them their own author username and pass.
Now, if I had a third hand that I could say: “On the third hand”…I would say that over at Gadgetopia I saw that if you subscribe to the Six Apart Professional Network then you can get a copy of Movable Type 3.1 profesional version for free. Now the guys at Gadgetopia, and I completly agree with them after taking a look, believe there must be a catch somewhere.
In conclusion? I’m going to hang out a bit. I’ll see if this free Pro version is really a lame trick or for real, and I’ll investigate to see how much of a pain in the ass it would be to upgrade my MT setup that I’ve kind of slowly hacked in to oblivion over the past months. If you are interested in this stuff at all, keep checking gadgetopia over the next few weeks as they have voluntered to play the “canary in the mine shaft” for all of us waiting to start using MT.
iMac, 3rd Generation
The new 3rd generation of iMac was introduced today by Apple at their Paris Expo. Once again, its an all in one model featuring either a flat panel, widescreen 17″ or 20″ inch screen. Here are the specs for the middle of the road 17″ model:
$1,299.00
17-inch widescreen LCD
1.6GHz PowerPC G5
512K L2 cache
533MHz frontside bus
256MB DDR400 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
64MB DDR video memory
80GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load Combo Drive
Some have complained about the design, but I really like it. It just looks very industrial and cool. It seems that the design was done mostly by Jon Ives, “the iPod guy” who is a genius of design. I would take one in a second.
All those that would like to donate to my iMac fund…leave a comment below and I’ll let you know where to send the check.
ESPN NFL 2k5′s playoff troubles
Everyone has been singing the praises of ESPN NFL 2k5 in the past few weeks becuase it is a great game with a cheap price tag…however many of those people are now looking to sack the game designers. It turns out that in the last few weeks (or in the playoffs) of the “Franchise Mode” of this game, the game freezes endlessly for no apparent reason.
Posts have started to pop up on ESPN Video Games forums from people with this problem. Some have even called Sega with this complaint, to which Sega of course replied: “Check your disc, there must be a scratch”. However, the people with this problem have no scratches, or any thing wrong with their gaming machines at all…all other games work fine, including NFL 2k5 (when not in franchise mode).
I’m in franchise mode and at the conference championship game and
at the kick-off screen the [***] game freezes. I’ve read that someone
called sega and they told him it could be a corrupt file or memory card,
a dirty lens, or the game is scratched. All of this is [***] , they don’t
want to admit they rushed this game out just to make a quick buck!!!!
What good is having a sports game when you can’t play in franchise mode
or play the two most important games of the season.
I will never buy another game from sega, it’s not worth the frustration
no matter how cheap it is. I guess the old saying is true, YOU GET WHAT
YOU PAY FOR!!!!!!!!
Although several people have this problem, it doesn’t seem to have been quite wide spread yet, possibly becuase many haven’t gotten to the end of their first year of franchise mode yet. Either way, this is an annoying problem that needs to be fixed.
Source: In House (It happened to my game too!)
Bill makes a date with Longhorn
Oh yes, thats right, real actual news on this site…haven’t seen this in a while have we? Well its back!
The Longhorn group over at Redmond has finally made decision. Longhorn, the forthcoming version of Windows, has be marked for a decidedly open-ended 2006 release date. However, to squeeze Longhorn in to your homes by 2006, some fat needed to be trimmed, or in this case, a vital organ. The highly touted WinFS file system based off of Microsoft’s database software, which would enable faster searching, had to be lopped off. Though it might be added on in a beta form or an update later on, it will not be part of the full release.
Too bad. I wonder what Apple will be saying about this when their next expo kicks off on Tuesday, now that Tiger’s big Spotlight feature will have no Windows equivilant.
Gmail Anyone?
So I recieved my first invite to give someone Gmail the other day, and I immediatly shoot it over to my friend Christien. Ok, thats done. Which is great becuase I really don’t know anyone that wants a Gmail account. Well, I logged on today and I see “Invite 6 people to Gmail” 6! Well, I don’t know who to give them too. If the readers of Hell Yeah Bitch! .com would like any of them, they are welcome. Leave a comment and I’ll hook you up.
Do you really know how to fold a shirt?
Yeah, I can fold a shirt too, but my way sucks. It never looks a good at they do sitting there in the store. Not only that, but there is no flash, no “wow factor” to the way I fold a shirt, and frankly I would like a little “wow factor” to be in everything I do.
Thank god, I found How To Fold A Shirt.net! (With this video.)
After you check that out I dare you to tell me thats not how you want to fold your shirt for now on!
A Call To Arms!
…or “A Call To Fingers” might be more like it…
As I was looking at my little site the other day and kind of mentally mapping out my future plans for Hell Yeah Bitch! .com, I said to myself:
“Self”
“Yeah”
“Do you know what would be really cool?”
“No, what?”
“I would love to have about 2 more people to write columns about whatever they want on this site!”
“Self, that is a kick ass idea.”
Well, it wasn’t quite like that conversation, but it was something like that…
Anyway, really would like to have at least 2 more people to write on this site. Lame? Well, I wouldn’t want to treat it like a “Guest Blogger” or just have all of us post in one long blog…because that is lame. What I would have in mind is more like three different columns all on the front page. Each person could most different colums on whatever they want, whenever you want. Really, you could pretty much write or display any projects you want with your column. (This would be easy to setup becuase I haven’t updated my MovableType yet and I can make several different authors.)
Ideally, I would like them to be in my area so we could team up and do videos and other things for the site and I do have a couple of people I will ask directly, but I would rather have someone with a funny and clever writing style write for us and be elsewhere than have noone. If this interests anyone at all email me at: mike @ hellyeahbitch.com Subject: Hell Yeah Bitch! Writer
Boredom at Best Buy
Oh yes, this is how productive Best Buy employees can be…
Let me back up a bit and explain. I currently work part time at Best Buy as I look for a real job in the IT industry. Well, the other day it was dead in there, and I noticed that some of the labels had come off some of the cheap CAT 5 network cable bundles. I don’t know how many of you have worked retail, but when its slow, you have 6 hours to be there, and you notice something like that, strange things pop in your head. For instance: I think I could copy that label and make all new ones to replace the missing ones…and I bet they would look pretty good.
Soon after begining, another bored as hell Best Buy employee, Christien, decides to tell me: “I can’t believe you are doing that. That is really stupid…But I know where I can get better paper for that! Let me help you.” Seriously, if you have worked retail, you understand the powers of boredom. It can be quite strong.
Feel free to follow the steps…
Why I Don’t Give A Crap About The Olympics
This year, in particular, the Olympics have little to none of my attention or focus. I plan on spending more time watching Who’s The Boss reruns than the Olympics. Sure, I read the sports page every morning and I take note of some of the medal winners. I too, was pissed, yet not that surprised, about the “Dream Team” of crappy, self-serving NBA players that this country turns out that got their asses handed to them by none other than Puerto Rico. But other than that, there are no interesting stories with this Olympics. Even though the press keeps harping on the possibility of terrorism, and how real the threat is! Sorry, if the “very real” threat of terrorism doesn’t get my blood pumping anymore. Maybe its becuase every day for the last 2.8 years I’ve read about the “very real” threat of terrorism.
The only other story that is even a bit intriguing is the story of Michael Phelps, the guy that (until today) had the next chance to beat Mark Spitz and his 7 gold medals. All sounds like gravy for Phelps huh? But if you think about it, this guy has a “real threat” of a shit-storm floating over his head. I mean, this guy is the only guy in this Olympic games that can get 6 gold medals and hear his entire nation collectively go “Awww, you almost made it! Better luck next time!” Right? Tell me I’m wrong. He could win 5 gold medals, two silvers and a bronze and people would be patting him on the back saying, “Too bad…but you gave it a good try.” How much would that suck!
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. The Olympics really have no interesting happenings…thats too bad. I don’t know what they could do about it, other than maybe giving me a good source of when (what channel and what time) of the different events are showing, so I could make time to see the events I would like to see. Yeah, thats a good idea. That way I could make an effort to see the events like Tae Kwon Do, Baseball, and maybe a game of two of softball, so I can see that cute Jenny Finch toss a few innings. Unless its on opposite the Cardinals game.