To dual-boot with WinXP, the Dell BIOS supports boot selections by hitting F12 at the Dell logo. Unfortunately Darwin/x86 doesn't seem to like being on primary slave, so you'll have to make it your primary master drive and put WinXP in primary slave. Of course, this means if you forget to hit F12 you won't log into WinXP by default.
Once everything was installed, the network was picked up by default. I also have a Firewire card installed -- not sure what type -- but it picks up a FireWire HD just fine. DVD and CD drive works (as well as DVD playback). The only thing that doesn't work is sound...and after a frustrating bit of work I discovered how to make the onboard sound function.
First off, if you don't have the AppleAC97Audio.kext file in /System/Library/Extensions/, you'll need to get it from post #5 at http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=4645. Then follow the instructions in the following post for loading the kext from Terminal. This loads the extension, but you'll notice that sound still doesn't work.
So, what's wrong? You need to change the number of audio channels. Go to Applications --> Utilities and click on Audio MIDI Setup. Under Audio Devices change the AC97 Audio selection under "Properties For:" until you get settings for the output. Then change the format to 4ch-16bit, click Configure Speakers, and change the channels from 1 and 2 to channels 3 and 4. Now you will have audio!
I used to have a Mac back in the PowerMac days (good old Centris 6xx...) but after playing around with OSX86 I really want to get a new Mac, with Final Cut Pro and everything. All I can do for now is dream...
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It's now 7:40 am and I'm still trying to register for one last class -- a physics class -- in case I can't get into the class I want, "Issues in World Politics," with my favorite professor and MUN advisor Chris Saladino. I think I can still get in though, though probably via override.
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Katherine hated her first name. She preferred Kit, but every official document pissed her off with “Katherine.” To finally have a letter that began with “Dear Kit” made her smile. Maybe, just maybe, after nineteen years, the old name would slowly disappear in favor of the new one.]]>
(Readers not liking the direction that this blog entry is taking should cease reading and not click on the Continue reading... link.)
]]> The ortolan is a small songbird of the bunting family. It can be found in France, though it is now illegal to capture them. In 1999 they were placed on the protected species list, to the disappointment of hunters and foodies of the strange and unusual. Apparently ortolen used to be a French delicacy, which involved catching the bird, placing it in a dark box so that it could gorge itself and plump itself up to several times its normal size, and then drowned in armagnac before being roasted and served hot.As if that's not bad enough, the bird is eaten whole, including the bones, with the exception of the head or beak, which is bitten off. All of this is done under the privacy of a napkin placed over the head, which is supposedly done to help retain the full aroma of the bird.
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So far I don't know what I'm going to write about. If you have any ideas, feel free to pos them in the comments for this post. I plan on doing a bit of outlining and notetaking, but NNWM participants can't -- honor system "can't" -- actually write a word until midnight on November 1st.
Who would've thought that I'd get HBO in my dorm? Apparently we do, and I came across the HBO series "Rome" while killing some time this evening. It's good, and they seem to have done a good job in general on it. If there's one gripe I have, it's not a valid argument: it's...HBO-like, if you will. There's a reason -- well, maybe lots of reasons -- it's on cable, and it's not because of an excessive number of backstabbings, vividly violent swordfights, and dismemberments.
]]>I wrote a paper several years ago on the Recording Industry Association of America pursuing litigation against those who infringed upon their copyrights by downloading and distributing music, especially through "peer-to-peer" (P2P) networks. It criticized their motives due to the extreme measures that RIAA lawyers and their legal staff took in an effort to recoup significant financial losses due to online music pirating; one of the examples which I cited included a grandmother in her eighties with limited computer expertise and, at one point, no computer, accused of "stealing" (and I'll talk later about why this is an incorrect term to use) popular rap music.
Few lawsuits filed against individuals citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) actually go to a judge or jury; the DMCA notice is usually enough to persuade people to settle, because the risk of losing is much greater than the settlement that the RIAA is willing to offer, usually ranging in the thousands of dollars. This means that there are very few precedents for the DMCA and online music "pirating," which is much harder to prove than distribution of physically pirated CDs and DVDs sold in public on the streets. The plantiff(s) -- namely the RIAA -- must seek a subpoena against the owner of the IP address associated with any perceived illegal actions, and the owner -- usually an Internet Service Provider such as Verizon DSL or Comcast cable internet -- may be forced to reveal the identity of the customer associated with that IP. It's a messy legal issue that I won't go into now. But those opposed to the RIAA's tactics have been waiting for a landmark case that will force the RIAA to completely re-evaluate their business model (which, right now, is based on scare tactics, which prompts the question, why do people pirate movies and music more often than stealing a piece of candy from the supermarket?).
That landmark case may be here now, with Priority Records, et al., vs Brittany Chan. Why is this significant?
]]> Brittany Chan is the 14-year-old daughter of Candy Chan.The RIAA just filed suit against a 14-year-old girl after unsuccessfully trying to sue her mother.
Priority v. Candy Chan established two things:
1) The plantiff must file a lawsuit that alleges copyright infringement against the party accused of infringement. A parent cannot be sued if the child committed the act.
2) If the infringer is a minor and his/her legal guardian (e.g. the parent(s)) has stated in a deposition that the minor committed the act and the suit was initially filed against the legal guardian, the minor cannot be added to the original lawsuit as a defendant. The plantiff must dismiss the original suit and file against the minor with a request to appoint an independent guardian ad litem.
From a public relations standpoint, this could be a disaster for the RIAA. Imagine seeing headlines like "Music Industry Sues 14-Year-Old Girl" in the newspapers and on television. Brittany Chan was thirteen at the time (she has since turned fourteen) and was accused of downloading and distributing 829 files under the name "Spicybrwneyedgrl." Candy Chan's testimony implicated Brittany in the use of the name:
Chan: ...And then he said we have a screen name of Spicy Brown-eyed Girl. I went home and I asked the kids who's Spicy Brown-eyed Girl, and they said it was Brittany, my fourteen-year-old.
Question: Did you ever talk to Brittany to confirm that piece of information?
Chan: Yeah. Is that your screen name? Yeah.
Question: And she agreed that it was?
Chan: Yep.
How much the RIAA expects to gain by suing Brittany is unsure, but it looks like we'll find out once a guardian ad litem is appointed and proceedings can begin. My opinion? The RIAA will win -- Candy cannot go back on her deposition without perjuring herself, and that still won't help her daughter -- but at a significant PR cost.
The court documents on the case can be found at http://www.p2pnet.net/stuff/chan3.pdf.
]]>Nope.
We must've pissed off the rain god.
The only thing worse than no rain is a few drops of rain...followed by very humid weather.
]]>These comments were made at the time of the press conference. They are the opinions of the author at the time when it was published and may not reflect the current views and opinions of the author.
]]> "Outstanding individual" -- Harriet Miers may have outstanding credentials but she has no experience as a judge, and while her "stellar record" is in law, from my understanding there is a bit of a difference between being a lawyer and being a judge."[She will not] legislate from the bench" -- Considering she has no experience on a judicial bench, this statement has no material evidence to back it up.
Budget cuts for "non-security spending" -- a dangerous statement, in my opinion. There better be a good, strong, loophole-less definition for "non-security" budget items.
Private sector will "drive" reconstruction along the Gulf Coast -- Halliburton anyone? Now that I think about it, where the heck is Cheney?
More refining capacity -- Bush (or maybe his speechwriter?) makes a good point here that I actually agree with. The issue is that people don't want a refinery in their backyard.
"The Patriot Act is getting results" -- How are we supposed to know what results it is having if someone served with a subpoena under the Patriot Act also restricts the individual(s) from saying that they have been served with said subpoena?
"Restrict Constructionists" -- An interesting statement from an administration that likes to twist political theory to their liking.
Apparently Miers "shares [Bush's] philosophy" -- I seriously doubt that she is the "best person [he] could find" and, coincidently, shares philosophy. Bush also thinks that she will keep that philosophy "twenty years" from now.
Haha! NBC's White House correspondent got the nail-on-the-head question: Miers position on abortion. Bush supposedly did not conduct a "litmus test" (his own words) on any of the judicial nominees...but remember, he said that she shares his philosophy. He said that he had never discussed the issue with Miers even on a personal level -- granted, a cheap shot question, but he doesn't have to (and shouldn't, in my opinion, regardless of the answer) answer the question.
So we are cutting non-discretionary spending and non-security spending; while the budget is a "pie," if you will, where an increase in one part requires a decrease in another part, we can't keep cutting the same types of programs over and over and other. There may have been 150 programs that were "eliminated or streamlined" as a result of the budget but there's only so much eliminating and streamlining that can be done.
It's good to know that Bush is "still a conservative" (a reporter actually asked him that -- good thing he didn't trip on the answer!).
Bush says that he "takes responsibility" for the failures in the federal repsonse to Hurricane Katrina. Good to know. Now help local and state officials rebuild.
Uh-oh...a quesiton on bridging the gap caused by poverty...and from a minority, no less (the reporter is a black female -- I don't know from what bureau, however). Bush claims that economic vitality and small business ownersihp will help close that gap. Education (or the lack thereof) is a valid reason, in my opinion (though Bush might not be the best person to be in charge of that...No Child Left Behind has not done a lot, other than put pressure on schools, and faith-based methods are very much debated in a division of church and state kind of world).
Bush claims that by elevating minorities, specifically African Americans, to positions of authority, where they can do good work, will help gain his vote in those communities. I argue against that completely. If changes in the communities needs to happen, moving them out of local and state governments simply puts them further away from the core of the problem.
]]>1) Presentation for my business class. According to the schedule we're a week and a half late; according to me at my group's initial meeting, we could've gone as early as the class before that -- two weeks ago.
2) Rain. It hasn't rained much in Virginia. Today was the first day I noticed rain during the day since I've been here in Richmond, so it's been almost seven weeks. In fact, it's not really raining now, but there was a light mist of rain falling earlier. There's still a lot of fog around, and the sky is solid gray, so I'm sure that it'll rain. Actually, no. I'm not sure it will rain. If I say that I'll tempt the fates. It was only a few weeks ago that a freak thunderstorm popped up over Prince William County for a few minutes before disappearing. I have a feeling we've really pissed off [insert deity of choice] and [he/she/it(?)] is toying with us like we're Sim City. Speaking of Sim City, I built up a pretty substantial city yesterday. I saved it, then proceded to burn it down, set tornades and UFOs and locust swarms and earthquakes on it, and start riots in the streets. It took the better part of an hour to destroy it.
Things that are taking forever to come (i.e. things that have not yet come):
1) Hayley Westenra
2) Supreme Court confirmations. I want something to rant about, dammit!
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Earendur
LOL....
Wurg
I Realy do dread to think what could have made TheFunch ban him in one go.
Probably talking about FFXI Flaws, or trying to sell gil
Debi
why worry about it?? He takes care of us so we don't get unwanted spam or advertising. <3 you Funch.
TheFunch (me)
on Jul 21st, 2005, 11:41am, Wurg wrote:
I Realy do dread to think what could have made TheFunch ban him in one go.
on Jul 21st, 2005, 12:21pm, Debi wrote:
why worry about it?? He takes care of us so we don't get unwanted spam or advertising. <3 you Funch.
Lonewolf
He sacrifices his free FFXI time just to help us.... We do appreciate that, you know, Funch. 
Thanatos
awwwww
I wanted to see what he typed? 
Damn i always miss out on those banned ppls posts. lol
Debi
I think we all did, Than. Funch is like Quick Draw McGraw. Quick on the trigger.
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(Aside: Such a nice crowd of people on the Lobby! I love my job!)
However, I am not a moderator or admin on Allakhazam, which, unfortunately, tends to be flamefest central. Naturally, I expect some flames when I post this as the response to a perfectly legitimate question:
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The only way I have been able to get [Final Fantasy XI] to work is by encapsulating [it] in a program like Sockscap or Proxycap and run a Java program (google for tunnel.jar) on a server outside the network. In my case, however, the university network is either so slow or they are using packet shaping that when I can log in, the connection usually dies (I have been able to get in from behind other firewalls, so I know that this process does work).
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and the reply I get back prompts me to have to post this response:
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BennytheOrcs wrote: "yeah thats interesting. Surely theres a way you can pay for that sort of thing. I mean money is no issue for me if it means playing FFXI."
What's there to pay for? If there isn't enough bandwidth on a university network, there isn't enough bandwidth. If they're packet shaping, they're not going to adjust the settings so that it doesn't packet shape one person's packets.
BennytheOrcs wrote: "Im still waiting on a response from Hopster about compatibility with FFXI."
Why, when I just told you how you can play FFXI? Or are you just too lazy to go Google the darn thing like I said?
The first frickin link (i.e. NOT THAT HARD TO FIND)
http://www.rpgexpert.com/3538.html
Follow the directions.
Every program out there like Hopster (including HTTP-Tunnel) will not work because they usually don't support UDP, which is why I said "The only way I have been able to get it to work is by encapsulating FFXI...and run a Java program...tunnel.jar".
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Now I don't have his responses because they've been effectively nuked by the mods, but they pale in comparison to the private messages that I found today sitting in my box at Alla, so bad that I almost posted a note to the mods (until I found out that he had already been banned!):
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Subject: die
From: BennytheOrcs
To: TheFunch
Sent: Sep 24, 2005 @ 11:06 PM ET
your a @#%^ing prick. die
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Subject: die pt 2
From: BennytheOrcs
To: TheFunch
Sent: Sep 24, 2005 @ 11:17 PM ET
u think im some kinda 2 year old u sad nerd. i'd stab ur face
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(For full disclosure, the two posts by me that I quoted further up were the only posts I made in the entire thread. I had no correspondence with this BennytheOrcs, either through a forum thread or via PMs. Other people, however, flamed BennytheOrcs for flaming me, which probably prompted the PMs.)
Damn. IANAP (I am not a psychologist) but I think some anger management sessions are in order. Maybe I should've just stayed at the Lobby and held to my word that I'd never post at Allakhazam again.
Oh, and BennytheOrcs? If you decide to comment on my blog, I swear by your choice of deity that I will nuke it to hell, the next galaxy, and back if it's the kind of #$%@ you PM'd me. Complaining is one thing; threatening to kill me is another.
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