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On Tonight's BSG
Jan. 14th, 2006 01:06 amFor those who haven't seen it, yet, I'll put my brief yet telling commentary behind the cut.
( Overall, good episode )
( Overall, good episode )
Jan. 14th, 2006
Well, this is entirely too amusing:
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Weaktwos!
- US gold coins used to say 'In weaktwos we trust'.
- There are roughly 10,000 man-made objects the size of weaktwos orbiting the Earth.
- The horns of weaktwos are made entirely from hair!
- Weaktwosocracy is government by weaktwos.
- Weaktwos was originally green, and actually contained cocaine.
- Weaktwos was named after Weaktwos the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
- Weaktwos can turn her stomach inside out!
- It is bad luck to light three cigarettes with the same weaktwos.
- The pupil of an octopus's eye is shaped like weaktwos.
- Weaktwos can be found on a Cluedo board between the Library and the Conservatory!
Low-brow geekage
Jan. 14th, 2006 03:35 pmSo, I was doing some research in how to remotely access my windows box in my study from my ibook laptop, which is usually wherever I am, mostly in the bedroom or living room. Why? Mainly I want to control my iTunes to start playing music, which broadcasts to my stereo via an Airport Express.
After talking to my local friends who have excessive expertise in this matter, they told me of:
TightVNC: I installed the server on my windows box.
Chicken of the VNC: installed the client on my ibook to access the windows box.
There's a little delay, but to just navigate iTunes and skip a song, or select a new playlist, or see what song is playing if I don't recognize the title, it works just fine. Like now. Apparently Kitaro's Magical Wave is playing, and I've not heard it enough to recognize the title. In fact, I didn't realize I had that song. It must have been during those wild, drunken nights of music downloading.
Another friend suggested I look into something akin to icecasts, but that requires further investigation.
After talking to my local friends who have excessive expertise in this matter, they told me of:
TightVNC: I installed the server on my windows box.
Chicken of the VNC: installed the client on my ibook to access the windows box.
There's a little delay, but to just navigate iTunes and skip a song, or select a new playlist, or see what song is playing if I don't recognize the title, it works just fine. Like now. Apparently Kitaro's Magical Wave is playing, and I've not heard it enough to recognize the title. In fact, I didn't realize I had that song. It must have been during those wild, drunken nights of music downloading.
Another friend suggested I look into something akin to icecasts, but that requires further investigation.
Of Monitors and Men
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ariedana were talking about flat panel monitors. She's considering getting the Apple display, but I contend you can get as good of a product in a Dell flat panel. We were comparing the 20.1 inch versus the 24 inch...Weaktwos: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productlisting.aspx?c=us&cat=snp&category_id=6198&cs=19&l=en&Page=productlisting.aspx
Ariedana: oooh
Ariedana: nice!
Ariedana: hard to decide on those extra 3"
Weaktwos: hell's bells. maybe I should pitch my 17" sony
Weaktwos: well, 3 more inches is double your money
Weaktwos: yeah
Weaktwos: now, if that monitor were a man, I'd pay the extra
Weaktwos: but since it's not
Weaktwos: ...
Ariedana: hahahahahaha