I purchased a television with my girlfriend! The wonderous 42LG70!
Pics on my Flickr page.
Television!
Posted in Computing, News, Style, sweet with tags 42lg70, awesome, fun, tv on 2009/01/09 by AlexMacBook! Again!
Posted in Computing, News, rant, Security with tags Apple, Fanboi, MacBook Pro, Mactard, Praise on 2008/11/25 by AlexWell it arrived, and I didn’t have to pay any duty! So I looked into how Apple did this… Turns out they ship to their warehouse in Ontario, repackage and ship again to the consumer. Clever…
Anyways, really, I am never using a Windows machine again if I have the choice. For work, we have no choice. But I can’t see any reason anybody would actually use Windows machines in their spare time. They are great for learning all the shitty things about personal computing, which is good if you’re in the business of fixing peoples shitty Windows computers. Microsoft really has created a million jobs in that respect. They even enabled countless other businesses, like antivirus and malware protection.
To those that say Macs can’t game, well I’ve been playing Call of Duty 2 and 4, Battlefield 2142, The Sims 2 and some others on my Mac, in OSX. I also installed Vista on my Mac. Vista runs awesome on a Mac. Why can’t Dell or HP make a machine that can run Vista?
Even the graphics are amazing. The screen is sweet, the colors rock. Looking at my Dells is embarrassing now.
MS Office 2008 is available for Mac if you’re too stoned to use Pages – which is by the way, fucking fabulous. I’ve never seen a more professional or easy to use word processing program.
Price. People say Macs are expensive. I went to Dell and priced out a system with the same numbers. Also, since it’s Windows you need all the Antivirus and security software you can find. Don’t forget a disaster recovery program. And what do you find? A Dell is more expensive than a MacBook pro. And it includes Windows. The only way I use Windows is if I’m getting paid to do it.
I’ll post pictures soon.
DRM Sucks
Posted in Computing, News, rant, Security with tags drm, stupid on 2008/11/24 by AlexOkay, as a nerd I read countless articles on just about any topic, including DRM.
I don’t understand DRM. Who does it benefit? What is the return on investment? As a business leader, you’d think the corporate big-wig types would think about this little detail when spending billions trying to implement it. Read more »
Vanilla
Posted in food, rant, sweet with tags boring, food, hisotry, speech, vanilla on 2008/11/10 by AlexThis is a little speech I wrote for Toastmasters. It’s about the totally awesome and unboring flavour of Vanilla.
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MacBook!
Posted in News on 2008/10/30 by AlexThere comes a time in life when you must trade in the toys of your youth for toys of adulthood. I have been using dinky PCs and laptops built for Windows for way too long. I must accept that I am a grown up and it’s time for a serious computer.
I purchased a MacBook Pro. Yes, the new unibody kind. It should be here next week. However, it is shipping from China via UPS. I didn’t get any choice in the shipper, I didn’t know it was going to be UPS. Had I known that, I would have bought a Dell.
UPS holds your package hostage demanding a ransom they call a “brokerage fee”. You don’t find out about it until your package has arrived. Usually the brokerage fee is a significant percentage of the original purchase price.
Cisco Password Recovery
Posted in cisco, Computing, Linux, News, rant, Security with tags cisco, hack, hash, md5, openssl, salt on 2008/10/21 by AlexSo you have a cisco device that is password protected, perhaps it is a mission critical core device and you lost the password. It doesn’t matter why, but maybe when you recover it, take note of it this time.
So what I present here is a method for actually recovering the MD5 hashed “Enable” password through a dictionary attack (and physical access). Read more »
High Beaming
Posted in News, rant, Security with tags Alberta, asshole, driving, lights, not cool, swearing on 2008/09/19 by AlexThis is for those who live in Alberta and drive after sunset: Lay off the fucking high beams.
Seriously, this is the worst province for zombie drivers. Read more »
Chocolate With a Rumor
Posted in chocolate, food, sweet with tags chocolate, finally, right on 2008/09/17 by Alex
I like chocolate, but I always find myself wondering why it feels unfinished at the end.
You know that feeling of warmth when your lover wraps their arms around you from behind and breathes softly over your ear while spooning right after sex? That’s what chili does to chocolate in your mouth. It’s the finishing touch. Without it, you just feel a bit screwed but you’re not really 100% satisfied. Read more »
Why “Military” Time
Posted in News on 2008/08/27 by AlexMy day has 24 hours in it. Many people ask me why I insist on using “military” time instead of just saying “nine o’clock” to ambiguously refer to some time “in context”. My main reason is because “nine o’clock” in our weird slang way of referencing time happens twice every day. Sure, we have AM/PM, but most people use that when the context already gives it away instead of when there is a potential for ambiguity. So I use “military” time just so that there is absolutely zero chance for misinterpretation. And the other reasons follow… Read more »
