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Experimenting with multi environments

// June 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // Hacks, Review, Shopping

So I caved, bought a Patriot 4GB module from Fry’s for $130 (it is SO dangerous to my wallet every time I go there!) I ran overnight memory tests and got no errors, so am running with 6GB today.

Old configuration

XP & Vista VMs, 1GB each

OS X got the remaining 2GB

New

XP & Vista WMs 1.75GB each

OS X gets the remaining 2.5GB

The VMs are used 95% for Outlook, 3% for corpnet browsing, and 2% misc.

OS X is used for everything else.

The main problems I was having seem to have been addressed, those were:

· Outlook (esp in Vista, but still there to a lesser degree in XP) would take a VERY long time to unload after quitting it, 5-15min before it would disappear from the task manager. During that time the memory used by it would slowly drop from 100MB+ at times down to zero with lots of disk activity on the data disk (where my very large .PST files are). After this memory bump it seems to unload almost instantly.

· Internet Explorer (Vista and XP) would take a long time to start and bring up the first window 1-3min. Now it comes up in seconds.

· OS X App switching: Apps that had been in the background a long time would take 30sec+ to regain focus sometimes.

Haven’t had it running long enough to know if it addressed the other issues. In both XP and Vista there would be times where Outlook would go non-responsive for 30sec-1min with really heavy disk activity on the data disk.

No overall subjective speed increase or decrease of the whole system outside of those specifics.

I need to find a hardcore memory tester + CPU load generator to run a 12-24hr burn in to make sure there are no temperature related issues with this inexpensive memory.

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Set Bing as default search engine on Mac

// June 8th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Hacks

If you love OSX mostly likely you hate MS and Google is your only search soul buddy. However, if you’re just like me: “Don’t give a shit about corporates fights” and just want the best set of options there here’s your sign.

Officially through the Safari preferences you can only change to Y! search, Bing isn’t there, wasn’t there and probably won’t be there anytime soon. As paladin of the bullshit I decided to step up, steel from the poor and give to the fugly reach people! Oh wait, wasn’t the other way around?

Whatever, let’s bite the meat now. Here’s the tutorial to add your favorite search engine (Bing in this case) at Safari. Enjoy.

This hint assumes you are familiar with the vi text editor. First, quit Safari and make a backup copy of the application. Then follow these steps:

Launch Terminal, and use the vi editor to open the Safari executable file. The command will probably look like this for most users:
```
 % vi /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
```
Search for the text google. The first occurrence will be a string that looks like this:
```
 http://%@.google.com/%@?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
```
This is the string that needs to be modified.
Change the string to the search engine you’d like to use. When changing this string, two things need to be kept in mind. First, the length of the new string must be the exact same length as the original. Second, you need to have two %@ sequences in the string. The second %@ should represent where your “query” would go in the URL. Here is an example. To make Yahoo! the default search engine, replace the string:
```
 http://%@.google.com/%@?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
```
with:
```
 http://%@.bing.com/search?q=%@&go=&form=QBLH or http://%@@search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%@&a=0 for Y!
```
So to keep my length constant, I needed to expand the string a little, I’ll use Y! string for reference. I added a %@@ at the beginning of the URL. Putting “something@” at the beginning of a URL will not affect the loading of a site. This allowed me to take care of the first %@ sequence I needed to retain. Then I replaced the searched term with another%@. This is obviously where my ‘query’ fits into the URL. Finally, I needed to add a bogus (unused) form field to the URL, so that the string would be the correct length. I added &a=0. So if you take a look at the original string, and the new one, the lengths of both strings are identical, as seen above.
Save your changes and quit the editor.

The next time you use Safari’s search box, your favorite search engine will be used. Note that if the string you enter is not of the correct length, Safari will fail to launch.

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Koalas lazy creatures?

// June 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // General

Koalas if you don’t know are not social and don’t come out of trees or down to the suburbs very often. But the main thing is that they don’t actually drink water normally at any time. All their food and water source is provided from the eucalyptus leaves that they eat. That’s why they sleep about 22 hours of the day because the calories and liquid intake is not enough to keep them awake long enough, but they consume enormous amounts of leaves in that time. So… these photos are even more amazing once that fact is known.

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John Holmes

// June 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Amoking, Funny

My friend Sapa is back from her yearly trip to Africa. On the plan she had the “pleasure” of sit next to porn star manager. Which introduced himself as “down talent manager” – Apparently his job is to find man with uhm ehm long talents rulers. He shared some of his stories and was very polite and soft in his wording (according to Sapa).

Apparently he was the fist one in meeting, but not make money out of it, John Holmes. For the few of you haven’t heard his name before:

With his tall, slim build with curly light brown hair, a light mustache, and bright blue eyes which made him an instant recognizable man, John was not lacking for work, bringing not only a professional attitude but also his legendary endowment (12 5/8″ long according to a Screw Magazine interview while other conflicting stories put it at 13 1/2″ long). His enormously long ‘member’ got him starring roles in over 2,000 loops, stag films, and adult features in a career that spanned nearly 20 years (with a peak of a $3,000-a-day salary). His lucrative off-screen penis-for-hire business took him around the world.

Source IMDB.

At the end of the flight, 23 hours he ended off his biz card and said if any of your friends has something to show off, give me a call!!!

Sapa which definitely is a woman that is not afraid or worse able to keep her mouth shut even under the worst conditions replied: “Believe me, if any of my friends would met your requirement I would have married him.” – She handed back the card and wished him to find what he was looking for in life.

Sapa this morning left me a message in my voicemail, since she didn’t know that I washed my iPhone yesterday. She noticed that I didn’t call her back and decided to send me an email with all the details of the conversation. Same of the stories that guy shared with her (she had OneNote recording on!!!) are son AWESOME for guys ) I laughed my ass off so much ehehe

Now grab the ruler you future may be just one blimp a way of where you seat now

amok

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Protect your ideas

// May 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // Inventions, Services

Most inventors have hard time in their life, a few are able to come through after they have the flash of genius. Here is something that can help you out.

Invention Home is a company of experienced inventors who learned how to succeed in the invention and patent process by developing a simple idea into a million dollar product line.

Today we help ordinary people develop and pursue their ideas by using our low cost, low risk proven success model.

Check them out, if you don’t try you don’t screw. And according to the best inventors, screwing is a 2000 time required process before the light goes on.

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Screw ups

// May 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // General

From Microsoft license of agreement:
The software is licensed “AS IS” without any warranty. You can recover from Microsoft only direct damages up to the greater of the amount you paid for the software/service or one dollar (US $1.00).

Yup, you read right! $1.00.

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101733831033.aspx

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Surgery in the Middle Age

// May 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // General

Surgery in the Middle Ages was crude and blunt and … PAINFUL! Surgeons had a very poor understanding of human anatomy, anesthetics and antiseptic techniques to keep wounds and incisions from infection. It was not a pleasant time to be a patient, but if you valued your life, there was no choice. To relieve the pain, you submitted to more pain, and with any luck, you might get better. Surgeons in the early part of the Middle Ages were often monks because they had access to the best medical literature – often written by Arab scholars. But in 1215, the Pope said monks had to stop practicing surgery, so they instructed peasants to perform various forms of surgery. Farmers, who had little experience other than castrating animals, came into demand to perform anything from removing painful tooth abscesses to performing eye cataract surgery.

But there were some great successes. Archeologists in England found the skull of a peasant man from about 1100 who had been struck in the head by a heavy, blunt object. Close examination shows the man had been given life-saving surgery called trepanning, where a hole was drilled and a section of the skull was lifted, allowing smashed bone segments to be removed. The surgery alleviated pressure on the brain and the man recovered. We can only guess how painful it must have been!

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Stolen Garmin

// May 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // General

I woke up this morning and I found out that someone broke in my car. Took the ipod, my great Garmin (with brand new MAPS!!!). In the rush of going away they also smashed my bike!!

A monitoring system is going to be installed soon – Fry’s I’m on my way!!

I thought I could track my GPS. Unfortunately that is not the case, see below the information that I got from the technical support.

Our GPS devices are strictly GPS receivers meaning they do not output any kind of signal that can be tracked. If your device has been stolen, we recommend that you register your device if it is not already registered with Garmin.

If you have not already registered your unit and you would like for us to register it for you then you will need to fax a copy of your sale receipt at 913-440-8280. Please provide the following information

Full name

Contact information

Serial number of device

Brief explanation of what happened

If law enforcement recovers the stolen device, this will help them in returning it to you as the rightful owner.

Stay safe and if I catch the bastard that did that I’m gonna to teach him the meaning of anal sex !!

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XBMC on ATV

// May 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // General

If you own an ATV and you haven’t hacked it yet, you’re using that great device for it’s 10% of its potential. XBMC for example it’s an awesome reason for the cheap and easy to make it happen switch.

Once you have XBMC installed you can run all the scripts that the community built for the XBOX version.

The reason of this post is to help people like me to move the scripts from the XBOX to ATV, since the information is hardly documented.

Install script and plugins into the Application Support folder (~/Library/Application Support/XBMC/plugins/(video,music) and ~/Library/Application Support/XBMC/scripts/My Scripts)

I hope this helps

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