Just a quickie: one slightly confused Xbox...

If you can't read the text, it says:

This is an Xbox game disc.
Please put it in your Xbox to start playing.

(We somehow managed to get it to play the Xbox game as a DVD... not intentionally, must've just completely confused it.)

OK!

Firefox 1.0.4, reproduced at 1600x1200 (native res) and 1400x1050, on both Windows and Linux (res I used for the VNC server to record that). Didn't work at 1024x768.

I briefly mentioned StumbleUpon in a JE just over a year ago, so I thought that, now that nobody actually reads this, I might as well mention it again.

StumbleUpon is a nifty toolbar (Firefox + IE) which takes you to sites that it thinks you may be interested in, based on factors such as topics you've said you're interested in, how you've rated previous sites, and who you've marked as friend.

My username is Dave2, if anyone cares.

If anyone's bored and fancies running an IRC bot to randomly spew out semi-correct looking sentences, give Moid a go. You can see some example web-based output, but bear in mind that it's been learning from IRC and stuff people paste it, so it's probably not something you want to read when your boss is staring at your screen. Most of the time it just says strange crap, but occasionally it does say some things which both make sense and are funny.

(Note that I'm not the author of Moid.)

Bloat 1.5 has just been released. Check the ChangeLog, go straight to the downloads, or do what most people will probably do and ignore it.

Looks like COBC's intranet is nice and up to date; this screenshot was taken today (2004-11-15).

(Yeah, I know, nobody cares).

Since the previous JE on the subject:

• I've got a new AXP2000+ (YAY!!!)
• That's died :|
• I put the PIII 450 back together
• The network card wouldn't work.
• I've been using my P Pro 200 server (sans X) for IRC, and a 180MHz Mac for web browsing etc for the last week or so.
• I just sorted out my network card.
• I ran Doom 3 to see how crappily it would work.
• My machine froze.
• IT'S NOW NOT POSTING.

Technology really really hates me.

'nuff said.

I swear that it must be "Blow Up All Of Dave's Computers Week" or something.

Firstly my main machine (Athlon XP 2600+) started randomly freezing. I eventually tracked it down to graphics card and stuck an old GeForce 2MX in there. Amazingly Doom 3 ran at a high-ish FPS...

My laptop's charger is also b0rked. So I can't use my laptop, but at least I rescued my main machine.

At least, that's what I thought. My main machine won't even POST now. Which means I'm having to use this P Pro 200 server sans X to do computing stuff. WHAT FUN!

Why? 'nuff said.

(Google's helpful spelling correction...)