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Monday, April 23, 2007

Casino Royale

This just didn't cut it. It was like flipping channels on the remote.. one minute watching billionaire's play card games, him having a heart attack next, and then back to card games, then some shooting, and a building collapses, etc.. There was what looked like to be the beginning of a car chase, but that only lasted about a minute before he flips the car to avoid running over the girl. I don't even remember what the plot was.. something about money... and card games.The last few minutes are the best part.. I was like yeah! this is where it gets good.. and then it's over. I'd rent it just to see it but.. could have been much better.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Designer's favorite car designs

Favorite car designs

Olivier Boulay of Mitsubishi: "The Mini."
Shiro Nakamura of Nissan: "Shelby Cobra."
David Lyon of General Motors: "The Phantom Corsair (a late 30's concept car)... reminds me of a flying saucer."
David McKinnon of DaimlerChrysler: "Ferrari Lusso."
Ed Golden of Ford: "Jaguar E-Type."

http://cars.about.com/cs/autoenthusiasts/a/second_quotes.htm

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Ruby Inertia version infinity


Ruby Inertia has been resurrected and I'm starting to work on it again. This is another rewrite, but with a lot of copy and pasting from previous versions. Every revision I make is more factored, smaller and better organized. Soon it will be just one line of code... ok, maybe not that small :)

Notice the Ubuntu orange? ;)

Saturday, April 07, 2007

>= 4GB memory and Ubuntu 64

If remapping PCI addresses in the bios doesn't work for you, try adding "blacklist intel_agp" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. What happens is:

"In short, the P965 chipset is being incorrectly identified as G965 (with video) and the intel agp gart driver blows up with PCI remapping engaged."

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=375853&page=2