Oh, this is nice…. Â I nearly didn\’t get it….
There\’s a nice in-joke in Sunday\’s Schlock Mercenary comic… Â Namely the last panel\’s quotes:
Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we\’re out of Beta!
We\’re releasing on time!
Anyone recognize it? Â If so, very good. Â All I will say is that I haven\’t listened to much Jonathan Coltran, but I loved his work in Portal.
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20091129.html
Well, I started randomly having Steam report:
Steam.exe (main exception): CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized): Partial field header at end of record
This happened after windows froze on a lockup during shutdown… Â The system froze on Shutdown, and it didn\’t complete shutting down after 10 minutes…. I was forced to force a power off…
To solve this problem:
No data is lost, and everything seems to be working fine now…
via Steam problem.. please help.
12 to Midnight is presenting a sneak peak at East Texas University: Degrees of Horror. It is a complete setting book for Savage Worlds, and includes plot points, and everything else you need… Except for the basic Savage Worlds core rules…
While this is a sneak peek, and not the complete book, it does have some interesting ideas… Including starting the players off with no wild die… And the plot points appears to be pretty interesting…
Check it out at Sneak Peek – ETU: Degrees of Horror | 12 to Midnight)
Well, I guess that\’s one myth debunked…? I wonder if we can get The Mythbusters on the case?
HandBrake 0.9.4: Released! or: Not Dead, Just Pining for the Fjords.
Will wonders ever cease? Â HandBrake v0.94 is now out, except that the site\’s download section isn\’t working… Â (I\’m sure it\’s a planned outage… yeah, right…)
\”Creation comes out of imperfection.\”
There's an old proverb in the video encoding world: \”Speed, size, quality: pick two.\” It means that you always have to make a trade-off between the time it takes to encode a video, the amount of compression used, and the picture quality. Well, this release of HandBrake refuses to compromise. It picks all three.
via HandBrake.
Evidently Safari may appear to hang, and cause slow system response if the Safari Cache files have been corrupted.
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Recently, any time I tried to run Safari on 10.6 caused all apps and the Finder to hang with the spinning beach ball. Force-quitting Safari stopped the problem, but it would occur again on the next launch. Googling around, I saw many folks reporting similar problems, but no solutions.
The /var/log/system.log file shows something like this when this hang occurs:
Nov 13 09:51:16 bvmbook Safari[394]: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:46.498542, # of Inserts: 0, # of bytes written: 0, Did shrink: YES
Sounds like a database problem. So I looked at which database-type files were opened by Safari, with this in Terminal:
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How can you lock your screen from another Macintosh?
The following applescript will allow you to lock the screen, over the network, from any other macintosh. Just keep in mind, \”Remote Apple Events\” will probably have to be turned on (System Preferences -> Sharing).
property ipNumber : \'Real IP address here\' property userName : \'real username here\' property pasword : \'real password entered here\' set remMachine to \'eppc://\' & userName & \':\' & pasword & \'@\' & ipNumber tell application \'Finder\' of machine remMachine to do shell script \'/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend\'\"