Month: October 2010

Doctor Who?

Alright, a challenge to everyone…. What\’s the meaning behind this picture? Anyone that Emails me with the answer wins the Patented No-Prize(TM). You can email me through the About the Archives page…

An Laptop, camera, and a motorized curtain = Privacy?

It\’s automation taken to the absurd? Or is it? Niklas Roy (Berlin, Germany) has an old storefront with a big window facing towards the street. He\’s installed a small but small smart curtain, in the shop window. Take an laptop, and camera and hook them into the motorized curtain, and there\’s a small but smart […]

Savage Worlds – Test Drive v6

Savage World\’s is a semi-generic Role Playing system, but similar to D&D and many other games, they release \”Savage Settings\” which are settings designed to be used with Savage Worlds….  For example: SlipStream – Pulp era, Sci-Fi Wizards & Warriors – D&D style epic fantasy DeadLands Reloaded – Horror / Western The Savage Worlds of […]

Renaming 2 thousand Files? Do it the Python way…

I ran into a situation earlier that I needed to bulk rename the file extension on a couple thousand files…. The first hurtle was that a majority of the files had a \”\\\”  (or was it \”/\”?) in it.  Since I am on a Unix platform, it appears that the os.listdir function wasn\’t able to […]

BubbleGum Crisis 2032/2033 Scoreboard

Well, consider this a pass it on moment… I am cleaning up my computer, and found a post from Jeanne Hedge, that I saved from alt.fan.bgcrisis…(Of course, Jeanne mentions that there\’s no attributions for this post, but the original was from February 24, 1996…) Here is a tabulation of the destruction done in the Original […]

Backing up virtual machines with Time Machine

One of the improvements in Parallels v6 is better support for Time Machine, if you are using a Disk Image based backup (eg. Not using a Boot Camp Partition).  Sadly, there doesn\’t appear to be any backup improvements for us Boot Camp users… According to Parallels: One of the ways to back up your virtual […]

Prediction Time, Missing Sync for Windows System 7 Phone?

Microsoft has been making alot of noise lately about how they will be supplying software to allow Windows System 7 System Phones will support Macintosh Syncing.  Well, I don\’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but Microsoft has promised quite a bit in the past, and rarely delivers everything they promise. Microsoft […]