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Magic The Gathering

There’s supposed to be a Magic The Gathering “pre-release” (for Eventide) this weekend. I already had other plans, and couldn’t find any information for it in my area, so I didn’t go. It’s been quite a while since I’ve played Magic The Gathering, but I really miss it :| It’s also a pitty it’s darn expensive these days.

These cards have absolutely nothing to do with the new set, but they make for an awesome combination ;)

Anyone care for a million Devouring Strossuses (or is that Devouring Strossii?) – you wont need it after that, but throw in a “Black Market” and you’ve got a million mana to follow up with some burn.

Nintendo Wall Graphics

Ooh… I want Nintendo Wall Graphics!

MenuetOS

Back when I was in college (2001-2002), a friend of mine showed me an operating system that boots off a stiffy disk. Now I know you get single-stiffy-disk sized linux distros, but this isn’t a command-line operating system… it has a full colour interface, with transparency, can run multiple applications, etc.

Anyway, at the time it was rather impressive. So I decided to Google it the other day, and found that the project’s still going (and it’s still only 1 stiffy disk big), and has had lots of extra functionality added. It may not have much practical use, but it’s worth checking out.

(from the site) “MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language, and released under the License. It supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications.”

Link: MenuetOS

New desktop: SharpE

I watched “Iron Man” last night, it was a really good movie but after seeing how cool all of his computer screens looked, I decided a change was in order… so I present to you the result (thanks to SharpE):

Now tell me that’s not cool? Until now I’ve only used the built-in “Windows Classic” theme, but I think that’s a thing of the past now ;)

an MD5 ;)

For those of you looking for this MD5…

508a9a6311571234e612a2182ef48a17 = r1v3s7

(for those of you who don’t know what this is all about, it’s okay, just ignore it)

Creative Labs prevent user from fixing their audio drivers

From what I understand, there have been problems getting certain Creative Labs sound cards to work properly in Vista, even though they claim the cards are Vista compatible. A guy by the nick of “Daniel_K” (on the Creative Labs forums) hacked together drivers that actually work, as well as provide extra functionality on certain cards.

Technically (legally) he shouldn’t have done this, as it breaks the EULA and Copyright and blah blah blah, fair enough, so Creative Labs went and did this:

My (hacked) Firefox 3 beta 4 extensions

Firefox 3 beta 4 has just been released (which means there’s a Firefox 3 beta 4 Portable, by PortableApps.com out as well)… which is great, because Firefox is becoming better (and faster) with every release. Unfortunately it takes a while for addon/extension developers to update their extensions to support these new versions/beta’s – luckily it’s really easy to hack them to get them installed (though they don’t always work) – some haven’t been updated since Firefox 2.0.0.1!

Below is a list of the extensions I’ve used, which I’ve hacked to work with version “*”. Yup, that’s right, an asterisk… in otherwords any/every future version of Firefox… which admittedly probably isn’t a good idea, but it will save me having to edit them each and every time I install a new beta. I would suggest NOT using my hacked versions of the extensions, and waiting for developers to release an updated version, but if you just can’t wait, keep reading…

Andre the Hilarious Hypnotist

I’m going to watch “Andre the Hilarious Hypnotist” tonight at the Baxter – if you haven’t seen him before, you’re missing out, it’s one of the funniest shows you’ll ever watch. Tickets are available through CompuTicket. I try and go every year :)