XP booted From the internal drive of an Intel Mac

Dual Boot XP Any Day Now...

XP booted From the internal drive: "

narf2006 posted a photo:

The installed XP after booting from the internal drive. Still one more reboot to go before getting to the desktop.

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(Purportedly Via narf2006's Photos.)

The Bronx Sudetenland

Marble Hill, the only part of the borough of Manhattan now connected to the bronx.

Trivia Subquestion: What is the northernmost subway stop in Manhattan?

Everybody Lies

What's more disturbing than dreaming about hanging out with television doctor Gregory House, and managing to find snarky situations to quote his lines back to him?




Finding out he's actually a pretty decent guy...

unsurprising surprises

You'd think I'd know by now that when a girl says "Guess what?" to you that "I'm getting hitched" is a likely candidate...

:-D

Laura, furrowed brow

hunter ski trip13.JPG
Originally uploaded by jeanabaena.

I think this is my favorite Laura picture so far.

Mac Book Pro Day 3

I finally have 1.5Gb of RAM on the machine, up from the standard 512Mb, which just wasn't enough.

The stripped screw over the ram compartment that was keeping me from adding ram (due to a right shitful screwdriver from Radio Shack) has been fixed by the quite resourceful people at Digital Society this afternoon.

I'm now sitting at Starbucks on 8th St just west of University Pl, with Belle & Sebastian on the store speakers, and internet through T-Mobile's free weekend hotspot service for T-Mobile customers, and a large cup of Hot Chocolate at my side.

The machine flies.

Full Speed i386 virtualized performance is only days away, and I do look forward to running windows side by side with OS X.

The machine flies.

Also, I just saw a man walking down Broadway with a cat on his hat, speaking loudly (I assume) to his cat, which was sitting quite serenely and taking in the sights.

The season finale of Battlestar Galactica is next Friday, and Jon Stewart takes the stage tomorrow night.

This is a bad time to be a television hater.

On Apple's New Products today

As seen commented elsewhere:

"$350 for a speaker? Who the hell spends $350 on a speaker? Now if they threw in an iPod..."

Quote for the Day

A Gandhi he is not.

Quote for the Day: "

'Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has ended his hunger strike on health grounds,' - the Scotsman.

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(Purportedly Via Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish.)

Caitlin & Laura, the rematch

Caitlin & Laura, the rematch
Originally uploaded by satmandu.

There's always time for Dr. Mario when friends visit.

rolling keegan's stomach

rolling keegan's stomach
Originally uploaded by becksu614.

Note also the uncredited fifth Mich Haus member in that picture.

The Hobart industrial dishwasher to Molly's left.

Sigh.

I miss that dishwasher (as I look at my sink...)

Mike on 420 Maynard

A truly endearing piece on the renovations to the University of Michigan Student Publications Building.

Trust me I'm a Floridian

As Expected.

Vote Fraud sux.

Dilbert Comic for 19 Feb 2006

My New All-Time Favourite Dilbert.

Comic for 19 Feb 2006: ""

(Purportedly Via Dilbert.)

Colleen Wants Your Danish Goodies

That's adorable.

Colleen Wants Your Danish Goodies: "

If you’re going to be at the New York comics convention February 24 -26, Colleen Doran, illustrator of ORBITER and creator of A DISTANT SOIL says:

For every person that brings a Danish Flag, button, or any product of Denmark, including a book or newspaper, I will give you a free head sketch and donate $1 to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Don’t expect fancy sketches, it’s a short weekend.

You don’t have to give me your Danish trade goods, just show Denmark some love, and I’ll show you some love, by giving you a precious pearl of a doodle (no pictures of Mohammed, please - do not ask for the Legion of Superheroes, either), and I’ll put a tip in the CBLDF’s jar.

And yes, I know the difference between the Swedish flag and the Danish flag.

If you insist on giving me Danish chocolate, I won’t object.

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(Purportedly Via Warrenellis.com.)

Grown men in peacoats shouldn't smell like baby powder.

Apple Seeks (Poetic) Justice

This is just so damned cute.

Apple Seeks (Poetic) Justice: "

Seems
Apple has href="http://www.osx86project.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=2">hidden a secret
message to OSX86 hackers to find in the 10.4.4 build of Mac OS X for Intel. And this time it's in verse!
/>Your karma check for today:
There once was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he'd
do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don't steal Mac OS!/>Really, that's way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.

Sure, it's not the greatest poem, but how
funny is this! I've always loved easter eggs in software and this is the best kind. The people who run OSX86 Project
site have offered up their own poetic reply to Apple. You can read it at their site.

I humbly offer up my
own poetic reply in the style of William Carlos Williams after the jump...

This Is Just to Say

I have beaten
the DRM
that was in
the Intel box

and
which
you were probably
saving
for Leopard.

Forgive me
it was auspicious
so sweet/>and so fast./>'''''''''''''''''' - not
Maxxus

Feel free to add your own Ode to Apple in the comments.

Read'|'Permalink'|'Email this'|'Linking'Blogs'|'Comments

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(Purportedly Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)

This isn't PRC pscyhobabble.

Please make it stop.

Colonel Martin said the number of hunger strikers [ at Guantanamo ] peaked around Sept. 11 at 131, but added that he could not speculate about why other than to note that "hunger striking is an Al Qaeda tactic used to elicit media attention and also to bring pressure on the U.S. government."

Does Diet Have Any Effect on Health?

Studies continue to say No.

Now for some bacon, cheese, and wasabi mayo.

Yum.

Announce: OpenSSH 4.3 released

Note the BUILT IN VPN CLIENT.

This could get very very interesting...

Announce: OpenSSH 4.3 released: "OpenSSH 4.3 has just been released. It will be available from the

mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.



OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0

implementation and includes sftp client and server support.



We have also recently completed another Internet SSH usage scan, the

results of which may be found at http://www.openssh.com/usage.html



Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their

continued support of the project, especially those who contributed

code or patches, reported bugs, tested snapshots and purchased

T-shirts or posters.


Read more..."

(Purportedly Via OpenBSD Journal.)

POLITICS: Alito Helps Stall Execution

HAHAHAHAHA. Ok, I'm done now.

POLITICS: Alito Helps Stall Execution: "As one of his first actions as a Supreme Court Justice, Samuel Alito has pissed off conservative members of the court. Alito sided against conservative justices Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas by blocking the state of Missouri's request to execute an inmate despite the inmate's pending appeal.



Missouri inmate Michael Taylor, who was scheduled to be executed Wednesday, filed a last-minute appeal on the grounds that the drugs used in execution cause pain, thereby making lethal injection an unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Missouri filed a request to allow the execution.

The court's split vote Wednesday night ended a frenzied day of filings. Missouri twice asked the justices to intervene and permit the execution, while Taylor's lawyers filed two more appeals seeking delays.



Reporters and witnesses had gathered at the state prison awaiting word from the high court on whether to go ahead with the execution.



An appeals court will now review Taylor's claim that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment, a claim also used by two Florida death-row inmates that won stays from the Supreme Court over the past week. The court has agreed to use one of the cases to clarify how inmates may bring last-minute challenges to the way they will be put to death.

I am interested to see where Alito's rulings go now that he has a lifetime appointment.

(Written by: Shalome)

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(Purportedly Via SuicideGirls: News Wire.)