Fack Yes.

Inside the mac os x kernel

Have you ever said that os x has a bsd based kernel or a microkernel? Well you're wrong; you should watch this video.

Watchmen Review

~3 hours
~20 minutes of big blue penis
2 fantastic breasts from Harold and Kumar

Overall it's good movie, which will provide future pursuers of higher education many hours of drinking fun.

We're So Screwed.

DTV Flow Chart

The consumerist has made an image that perfectly explains what people should do for the DTV transition.

http://consumerist.com/5116811/a-very-simple-flowchart-explaining-the-digital-tv-transition

Vista fixes 08

I finally upgraded to vista a few weeks back and here are some helpful things I found.

By default vista didn't want to accept that my monitor could do 1280x1024@60Hz and some googling led to this post on the hardforums, unfortunately the fix is specific to nvidia.

I also had to move my router downstairs (cheapest way to get brother's xbox online) and use a wireless adapter on my main computer. needless to say this led to some serious lag spikes in videogames. The problem has been around since xp and the solution was to disable the wireless zeroconf service; the vista service is called wlan autoconfig which works. I also noticed people mentioning a program called vista anti lag written by some german guy whose site is down, I did find it on some german freeware site I never heard of though and it seems to work well. To get the program to work you have to disable your wireless card, then start the program, and then enable the wireless card.

On a completely different note I was watching Necessary Roughness on the tv and I noticed something funny. In the movie the football team of the, at the time fictional, Texas state plays their first game against Southwest; which through the hilarious vagaries of time is now known as Texas State.

Why UH was not invited to the BigXII

Every time John McClain mentions Baylor on his blog there are scores of UH fans who ignorantly claim that UH should have been in the Big12 instead of Baylor. Allow me to quickly explain why UH was not invited to the Big12.

football	Baylor	Houston
1990	6-4-1	10-1
1991	8-4	4-7
1992	7-5	4-7
1993	5-6	1-9-1
1994	7-5	1-10
1995	7-4	2-9
total	40-28-1	22-43-1

Algorithm For A Modern Artist

I realize that on a certain level the point of art is to elicit emotions. There is a line, however, and this jerk crossed it. I am no great student of art or art history, but from casual observation most art seems to follow certain patterns. Art seems to be almost structured, and I believe I have derived the algorithm which will produce what is today considered art.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
char c, str[256];
ifstream is;

cout << "Enter the name of an existing controversial topic: ";
cin.get (str,256);

is.open (str);  // open controversy

while (is.good()) // loop while profit from controversy is possible
{
c = is.get();  // get money from controversy
cout << c;
}

is.close();  // controversy dropped
return 0;        
}

I Suck at Fantasy Baseball

That is all.

California To Citizens: All Your Thermostats Are Belong To Us!

A while back I made this new flag for California as a joke, but the people of the golden state are bound and determined to make me into a prophet. First they passed some ass backwards electricity deregulation that forbade the company that sold the electricity to generate the electricity, which led to the oh so famous rolling blackouts. Now these jokers are trying to take control of people's thermostats; tacitly castrating the male population of California. Ever since the invention of air conditioning it has been the man's job to control the thermostat in his home with an iron fist and a steel will against mother and children who would heedlessly alter the perfection of the home environment.

If you live in California and want the testicles of your state to remain in their respective scrotum's tell Ivan nyet!