Is this thing on?

So, the GNU XBAWKS EXPERIENCE! dropped this morning.

Bit odd that my 360 wasn’t seeing it even through multiple log out/ins. One of the YakYak massive suggested running the network test in setting, which I did and as soon as it hit XBox live the notification popped up.

I’ve only had a very quick squizz round but I’m liking what I see so far. Not sure about the friends view, it would be nice to just see a list, but I’m liking the fact they’ve finally sorted out the file system and it’s caching stuff properly at last.

Currently installing CoD5 to HD, CoD4 next!

written by RiK \\ tags: Tech

Apple store opens in the new Cabot Circus mall in Bristol this Thursday. Ooh my poor bank balance!

http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/cabotcircus/

Anyone fancy a visit there thursday then?

Free T-Shirt to the first 1000 through the door. Got to be worth it just for that hasn’t it?

written by RiK \\ tags: Apple, Bristol, Mac, Tech

Even better - Bog informs me that those frames were taking 2 hours each on the renderfarm. That’s until it gave up and died.

My Mac was churning them out at 20mins a frame

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Friend Bog’s got a big 3d job he needs to get out the door before heading off stateside next week, so I’ve offered all the spare clock cycles on my Mac to share some of the rendering load.

Lightwave is currently chunking away over on the other screen, rendering a scene out in full HD res and yet I’m sat here with a DVD ripping, whilst watching a video, uploading the next 100meg or so to FTP and noodling on the net with absolutely no sign that my Mac even thinking about breaking a sweat…

Aces

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So, the UPS bloke picked up my 360 earlier to go off to MS for repair.

His comment as he picked it up was “I could do with a bigger van just for these bloody things..”

Hmmm….

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My turn then

Arse.

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What a pile of tosh…

FFS *rolls*

written by RiK \\ tags: rants, Tech

Started trawling through all the old entries ported over from my old Livejournal blog to set the post levels and add some tags etc. Ok, it’s not strictly necessary but I hate seeing everything just filed under ‘uncategorised’.

So far, I’ve tagged about half of 2004. This could take some time!

written by RiK \\ tags: blog, geek, Tech

Man I really hope I don’t end up taking this thing back as it’s fucking awesome at everything I want it for apart from the shifty phone reception.

Blogging from the gym eh. Whatever next!!

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How to run a Mac screensaver as your desktop background..

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background

When I first had a Mac I was a bit twitchy about how much processor load that would waste.

Not really an issue these days though.

written by RiK \\ tags: Tech