January 26, 2005
Battlestar Galactica
Just watched the latest and last of Battlestar Galactica.
What a excellent show and season, finally a propper scifi with good gravity effects and no sound in space!
Season 1 only had 13 episodes, vs. the original 1978 one which had 24 episodes. From what I can tell, the storylines are very similair between these two. I hope we see a season two of this one!
Also just seen the pilot episode of a new show called Numb3rs
which is propably a cross between CSI and Monk. It is supposed to tell us about how mathematics helps catching criminals. In the pilot a young mathematician helps pin-pointing a killer's point of origin given the crime scene locations. I'm still pondering if this is going to try and make more kiddies study their maths or if its actually going to be interesting, will have to see.
Lastly, looks like Smallville (4x11) is airing its first 2005 episode Wednesday evening.
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January 21, 2005
XLink Kai
I'm most definitely not a gamer, I have the hand-eye coordination of a snail, but I do enjoy the pretty pictures and being shot dead.
I bought a Xbox a few months ago, it was difficult to choose it over the PS2 but the idea of microsoft losing money for each one sold was pretty motivating (let us not get into marketshare talk now).
I quite liked the cute toy but got bored and chipped it with the Xecuter 3. This is _really_ nice, no more swapping DVD's, etc. It also introduced me to the world of XBMC, the media centre project for Xbox, it seems to use mplayer as its player beneath all the pretty pictures.
Anyway, XBMC comes with Xlink Kai, which I started playing around with yesterday. Since Xbox Live uses a subscription based model (and does not like modchips much (changed serial numbers of hdd's upsets new games on live), a alternative for Xbox gamers arrived.
Xlink Kai captures the broadcast traffic that consoles (well, for Xbox at least) send accross the wire to other consoles on the same LAN and tunnels this traffic to the Xlink-Kai servers. Surprisingly, the latency is ridiculously low and there are *many* gamers of various console-types always online. Even the Xbox-Live headset (teamtalk effort) works fine!
And of course the people on their Gamecube's,PS2's,etc. can all join in on the fun (if there is a compatible game at least). Splendid idea and works extremely well!
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January 20, 2005
UK Online Broadband 8000
I guess ADSL is a tad more affordable in the UK if compared to South Africa. UK Online's 8mbit service was mentioned quite a while ago on thereg.
While not available in my area (being in the middle of nowehere and all of that) it is quite interesting that there is a 500Gb/pm cap mentioned on their pages.
I guess offerings like this will slowly get rid of the 'power users' not on ISP's with their own LLU, as the race for speed (and not bandwidth) goes on.
I for now will still stick to my 'ol 2meg Eclipse offering.
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January 18, 2005
Leave...
A ex-colleague of mine forwarded me this from his mail stash today, it's a mail I sent just as I was going on forced-leave at itouch.
-- snip --
It's with a tear in my eye that I am saying this, iTouch has been a
wonderfull learning experience for me, I learnt many things from both the running of machines, and the people here (yes, fuzzylogic).
Unfortunately, I feel that its time that I move along into another direction for a while, and spend some time growing personally.
This all came to me on the sad day management informed me that I have to serve the maximum sentence, yes, take leave, or lose it.
So, sadly I must bid you all farewell and I wish you all the best of everything while im being sent on this selfdiscovering journey of offlineness.
Eitherway, I'll be back and full of action early December! (;
Anybody with SysAdmin requirements throughout November, please log a
ticket at xyz@xyz.co.za or chat to the very capable Mr X Y
on 082 99x xxxx. Any other queries, please contact my boss.
Sorry, the rest of you are on silent ring! (:
Enjoy!
FB
-- /snip --
Fun and games!
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Blogness
Due to enormous amounts of peer-pressure I have given in and started this blog.
I more see this more as a href stash than anything, so suffer or go away.
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