Monthly Archive for March, 2005

Mar '05 31

E.T. No Phone Internet

Published on 5 years, 5 months ago in Day-To-Day and Geekdom. 0 Comments Tags: , .

I called up Cingular technical support today to discuss using my Sony Ericsson as a modem for my laptop. As it turns out, I was told that it is impossible to use non-TDMA phone networks for making direct data calls.
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Mar '05 25

Too Much Gift?

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Pardon the Engrish.

Rabia Recently gave me a couple of birthday presents for my upcoming 20th birthday. Included is a beautiful cashmere black scarf (I’d been talking about wanting a black scarf to go with my wool/cashmere coat), as well as a $150 gift certificate for Express. I’m not sure exactly what I’m going to do with the gift certificate; it’s clearly way too much for my birthday, especially coming from her. I’m taking suggestions on what to do with it – please post a comment and let me know how you think I should get back at Rabia.

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Mar '05 24

Hardware-Accelerated X Finally Showing Signs of Maturity

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In response to: Seth Nickell – Design Fu: K00l Luminocity OpenGL Videos.

Alright hardware-accelerated-X guys & girls, you’ve got my attention yet again. And I thought XDirectFB was cool.

It’s got to be only a matter of time before we have something equivelant on Mac OS X. As really the first operating environment to provide hardware-accelerated rendering of windows and widgets, Mac OS X can’t be far behind. I’m praying that someone develops some sort of haxie to enable this sort of thing globally on OS X.