Archive forMay, 2005
Dead Hard Drive
My hard drive on my windows box died. Crap on that. Thankfully, the only thing that I really needed off of it were my poker statistics and Half-Life 2 savegames.
I’m beginning to think that I’m cursed, as this is the third or fourth time since coming to college that I’ve had to replace a hard drive. Whatever the reason, I’ve been driven to take more extreme measures now. I’ll be setting up a RAID 1 configuration. I just ordered two Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB drives per the recommendation of ArsTechnica’s budget system guide. In a few days, hopefully this will all be behind me.
MTV Xbox 360 Party: Worst Event Evar
The only thing of substance in last night’s Xbox 360 party was the segment on the new Perfect Dark game. I learned Perfect Dark is pretty, that’s it. Nothing else. I guess if you hadn’t heard anything about the new 360 you would have also learned:
- 360 is white.
- 360 can stand on it’s side.
- 360 has different face plates.
- 360 has wireless controllers.
- 360 can go online…
All of these factoids are unispiring or are so vauge as to border on useless. They left out all the meat, and failed to show the world anything other than “more screenshots”. Microsoft really dropped the ball.
As an aside, I’m a Scoble-whore, because I use the word Scoble in this post (forgive me). Hopefully, he’ll see this and let the responsible party at Microsoft know how badly they failed to educate and excite people about what should be their newest coolest product. You had tons of eyeballs, you had MTV, and you filled up an hour with the amount of information that could have been printed on a brochure.
RIP Clie
I’ve killed my third and last palm pilot, a Clie PEG-S360. Worst part is, I have no idea how this one broke. Just pulled it out of my pocket and the screen was cracked, but alas I must mourn and move on.
Since the damned MPx was cancelled, I’m looking to the boring Scoble phone or sexy but unreleased Nokia N91 to satisfy my convergance hunger.
In Depth Tiger Review
Check out the Ars Technica in depth review of Tiger. It’s long and it’s dense, but if you’re anything like me, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of OS design as well as a good idea of whether or not Tiger is a good buy for you. By way of Alex King.