http://www.supz.org/weblog Welfare mothers, united as one. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:05:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been traveling quite a bit for work lately, and posting here hasn't come to mind, but hell, since I'm waiting for some clothes to finish drying for another trip tomorrow, I guess I can find some time to post here. First off, Verizon sucks balls. Last week, I called Verizon ... http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/so-much-for-posting-more-often/ So, my last post was about wishing for a new MacBook Pro. When the new MBP was announced last week, I was traveling for business (in Silicon Valley, none the less), and I was all ready to head back home and buy one, however after being able to let it ... http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/time-to-wait-some-more/ Everybody loves to speculate about Apple product releases and damn it I want to speculate too... Well... I'm not going to speculate... I'm just going to flat out say what I want in my next notebook, and hope it magically comes into existence. If it doesn't, I'll be in the area ... http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/looking-for-gold-or-oil/ If this were a stock, you should invest in it now http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/lost_blog_oceanic_golden_pass/ I recently picked up a Sony Bravia KDL-40V3000, which is a really nice 1080p HD TV that satisfied all of my requirements in buying a new TV. Out of the box, the standard image mode of "Vivid" looked like it was meant to burn the retinas of everybody watching it, ... http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/getting-more-out-of-your-hd-tv/ It's a bit too late to be posting this, but if somehow Obama is able to pull off some amazing post-super Tuesday win, this video here really shows why he is so infinitely superior to Hillary, who to me is just George Bush in women's clothing. Yes... Hillary is the ... http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/why-obama-hillary-and-time-machine-rules/ Yesterday an article was on the front page of digg, regarding fighting climate change by leaving your computer turned on, and it piqued my interested (after all, your computer being turned on is wasting electricity, so how could it possible counter that horrible effect?), so I took a look and ... http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/limiting-cpu-of-boinc-client-automatically/ I picked up a Slingbox Solo the other day. It's a cool device that let's you do what they market as "place shifting"... pretty much, you stream your cable box or Tivo or whatever through your broadband connection to anyplace you may be, that has an internet connection. It's funny that ... http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/slingplayer-under-os-x-having-trouble-registering/ I'm trying to make this the ugliest looking web page on the face of the earth. Right now I'm contemplating how I can integrate lime green and bright pink into a single post, to reduce readability to 0%... Please be patient -- the page will be unreadable in no time. http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/in-case-you-couldnt-tell/ The list of supported hardware for VMware ESX 3.5 is about 5 devices long, which means that if you want to use local SATA for storage on a VMware server, and don't feel like buying new servers, or doing some weird cross-NFS storage model with multiple gigabit ethernet links between ... http://www.supz.org/weblog/2008/vmware-esx-35-on-non-supported-hardware/