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Got my Canon PowerShot SD780 IS today. You can see a ton of pics I took here with it.

A nice pic below that I took, you can see my nose hair without it being cropped, but I prefer to show you just my nose hair.

Update

Video taken with camera.

I took a video inside, but it doesn’t look very good. Maybe its just my room, where I was taking the video there isn’t a lot of light. If I took video by my computer it might be better looking.

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The MSI Nettop 100 has an intel atom 330 processor, searched google for “is intel atom 330 64 bit”, and a forum said that if “cat /proc/cpuinfo” has the Lm flag, then it does 64bit. Now downloading xubuntu 64 bit version to see if it works. Intel’s site says it is 64 bit too.

Output of cat /proc/cpuinfo below.

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1595.955
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips	: 3191.91
clflush size	: 64
power management:
 
processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1595.955
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 2
initial apicid	: 2
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips	: 3191.98
clflush size	: 64
power management:
 
processor	: 2
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1595.955
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 1
initial apicid	: 1
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips	: 3191.87
clflush size	: 64
power management:
 
processor	: 3
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1595.955
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 3
initial apicid	: 3
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips	: 3191.99
clflush size	: 64
power management:

Update
Live CD works, installing now.

Update
It is installed and working.

Linux xubuntu 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

That’s because many observers don’t expect a new iPhone will be unveiled. The Cupertino company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is about software, not gadgets. Some prognosticators say a new device – perhaps even a new family of iPhones – will be launched later this month or in July.

Good cause I don’t care about the iPhone. Not buying any phone that is locked down to a service, hell I don’t even need a cell phone or any phone for that matter. If I had to pay bill, I’d have no cell phone.

Might not have to buy OS X Snow Leopard, as I’ll eventually get an iMac. Doubt Snow leopard will be released immediately.

Funny how everyone is expecting hardware, does anyone realize the name of it is “World Wide Developer Conference”? Sounds like software, not hardware, at least to me.

A number of analysts expect Apple to hold a special event in coming weeks to launch a new family of iPhones, and to announce lower prices.

Ahh there you go iPhone humpers. Maybe they’ll lower price of iMac, still have to wait 2+ months, will want some money left in bank, and will be buying refurbished.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster speculates a device that is somewhat larger than the iPod Touch will be launched in the first quarter of next year.

That is what I want, then I won’t bother getting a new touch if they make a new one. I still have the first generation touch, waiting for third generation or tablet like mac.

Apple’s annual developers conference: Don’t expect a new iPhone – San Jose Mercury News.

Might end up getting a new mac mini, and upgrading the ram myself. I upgraded my old one without a putty knife, though I damaged the case by doing it the way I did it. So maybe I’ll have to buy a putty knife if I do it myself.

Update
Maybe I won’t get a new mac, as my current mac mini just froze again. Seems to freeze to often, more then I remember my PC with ubuntu crashing. I might decide to try ubuntu on the aspire one I ordered before sending it back, maybe I’ll keep it, if it doesn’t freeze as much as mac.

Just got an email from compusa saying they have Acer 1GB Netbook w/ 120GB Hard Drive for $199. Kind of got ripped of, to bad I can’t cancel amazon order. Will have to send it back when it arrives. Guess the screen is smaller, still think I’ll send Aspire one that I bought on amazon back without opening it. Changed my mind, after I ordered it, never really wanted it that bad. Rather have my money back. Next time I’ll select three day shipping, then maybe I can cancel the order, if I change my mind…

Update
Emailed amazon to see if its possible to cancel anyways, should of emailed them last night.

Doesn’t look like I need a new mac, if I ever want to play Spore. Spore has some bad reviews anyways, and some nasty DRM. No release date yet, so you can’t pre order it yet.

Source

Just bought a DSTTi card from echostore.com. Probably could of got it cheaper somewhere else or different card for cheaper, but echo store probably has faster shipping. Also payed by paypal, which is nice. Got a 2 GB microsd card from them too. Dealextreme has the DSTTi for cheaper, but slow shipping, uncle ordered an R4 from them once, took like 2 weeks or something, don’t want to wait that long.

Update
Cancelled the order, and they cancelled it really fast. To paranoid about how long paypal takes to show the money they took out of my bank. I will definitely consider echostore.com in the future, very fast communication.

I got a mountain bike a long time ago for free, was given to me by one of my Uncle’s, the one on my dad’s side. Went to walmart and got helmet and tire pump. Took it for a short ride, easy to go down hills, was to weak to ride it all the way up the hill. The chain fell off on the way up the hill too. If I had an electric bike I probably would of made it all the way up, not really a steep hill, it goes in a fucking circle, so if you walk your bike up, don’t bother going in the circle, unless your to weak to pick bike up. Rather carry it up some short steep hills then walk around a fucking circle. Don’t have to carry it much, just a little anyways. Oh yeah saw one of those e-zip bikes at the wlmart we went to, we didn’t go to the same one as yesterday. They had one for $399, $350 on their site, so guessing if they had the $299 one, it’d be $350 at the store. Probably won’t bother getting electric bike, one reason being is they weigh a lot, so if you have to peddle you won’t be able to go very far without getting exhausted. I have bad judgment, so I’d end up pedaling it a lot probably, and I’d need two batteries cause I’m a fat ass. The batteries are $129.99 on amazon.

Oh yeah will probably take my current bike to shop and have em fix it up, or see if they think I should just buy new one. Bicycle Butler is where I’ll take it, says on their site they can rebuild em, build you a custom bike, looks like they pretty much do everything that can be done to bike. Wonder if they can turn it into an electric bike, haha. It’d probably be cheaper, I think you can buy electric bike kits. Hmm bikes don’t really look that hard to work on, maybe I should just buy parts myself, and do it all myself, then I’ll have something to do all day, other then sitting on ass. Wait I can sit on ass while I very slowly work on it, take about 2 hours to remove one bolt… haha, better off taking it to shop, it’d take me to long, I’d be to busy staring at it. Hmm did google search for “electric bike kit”, looks like those kits cost more then $299.

Could just have two bikes, one electric and one non electric, only ride electric when I want to go up a hill. Hmm wonder if it’d make it up a big hill without pedaling. Probably not, so I’d be going in reverse, haha. Oh yeah and I wonder if you can modify one of those e-zips to have 4 or more batteries, probably 8 would be good, would be expensive though to do that, maybe buy another battery every month. Then maybe it’d make it up a big hill. Probably be cheaper just to save money and buy more expensive electric bike if I wanted 8 batteries…

Hmm wonder if any of those e-zip scooters can have two batteries. Think I rather have scooter and non electric bike. And those aren’t the big scooters that you need license to drive.

They only sell it online, found it on amazon, but on the right says you can order from target. To bad you can’t buy at the target store, says on page online only. Maybe I’ll go look at bikes tomorrow at local stores. Should probably look local first, doubt I’ll find a cheaper price then that.

Looks like walmart has an EZIP looks the same, has same features, for $299. And is at “limited stores”, would have to call to find out, which sucks. Wonder how much shipping would be, can’t you have em ship it to a walmart for free or something? and go pick it up? Shipping is $29.97, no option to ship to local walmart, still cheaper then everywhere else… So its $325.01 after tax. Amazon charges me tax too, so even after the shipping, if I order online, walmart is cheapest. Might be able to get it at local walmart. Hopefully I can. If I get it, I’ll eventually buy another battery for it, so I can go farther.

Update
Walmart I went to didn’t have it, or I didn’t see it. Not sure if I’ll get one or not. Might as well think about it until it snows, and then decide not to get one, because its snowing. Hmm I should use that same thinking process before buying anything, that way I won’t ever buy anything. Same with electronics, power might go out, so no point in those, might become a bum, electronics won’t do me any good then. Don’t need food, cause I’ll die eventually anyways, so why waste valuable paper on food, when your going to die anyways?

Damn D-Link 615 router isn’t very stable. Sometimes iPod touch will disconnect mac from internet. Just rebooted it and changed the channel, now Airfoil seems to be working right. I got it for $29.99 from compusa.com. Hmm wonder if this router lets you assign IPs to different mac addresses, like D-Link. Hopefully it does. Read you can put D-Link firmware on it.

Update
Not on sale anymore. Good thing I’m on their mailing list, signed up for it sometime ago, probably when entering a sweepstake from em.

Nice. Wonder if Microsoft will buy me one of those head covers, I’d rather have the money too, but it looks like it makes a good head cover.

Now that I know how much shipping is, I lowered the price to $20.99. Buy em while you can on ebay. Should get Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapters sometime next week, will sell those for the same. Or maybe a buck less.

Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapters $20.99 + free shipping

The iPod touch version will cost $9.95, fucking bastards always charging touch users.

“Meanwhile, Apple also revealed that Bluetooth support can be activated in the 2nd generation iPod Touches. ”

Quote from macrumors.com, hmm maybe I’ll buy a new iPod touch then, that comes with 3.0. First generation doesn’t have bluetooth. Wonder if my bluetooth headset will work with it, then I can use VOIP on touch.

Another new feature is “Third-Party Accessory Apps: Allowing accessory manufacturers to create applications to interface with their hardware accessories.”, so I guess somebody could make a microphone accessory for iPod touch, and then make app that’ll work with it, probably wouldn’t be a VOIP app, maybe they’d release an SDK, so others could make apps for it.

I don’t want to buy the second generation iPod touch though, waiting for the third generation.

Got MadWorld today, seemed easy at first, on third level I think, or is it the fourth place? I don’t remember, took a break. Also got No More Heroes. Its alright, kind of easy, probably because I selected the easy mode, wonder how much harder the other level is. Oh yeah man darts is fun.

I bought a receiver at Huppins, and got some free speakers from my grandpa, but the subwoofer isn’t powered, so won’t work for me. I got a Sony STR-DG520 for $157.67 after tax, before tax it was $145. According to them, that is what they paid for it, last one on the shelf, and discontinued, they aren’t getting anymore, I like buying the stuff on the shelf, can get discount. So that was cheaper then amazon, amazon has tax for me too. Oh yeah had to buy optical cable, well actually ordered yesterday, as I knew I was getting speakers and receiver. HDMI out is only for the stuff that is plugged in by HDMI, as far as I can tell, it truly is only “pass through”, so component won’t go out of the HDMI, assume I’d have to plug component into component out, and that’d be a pain, easier solution, hook everything up to TV, and then hook optical out on TV to receiver, well I’ll keep 360 hooked up to it. So the receiver will always be on the same input, and will have to change input on TV. Glad I didn’t pay over $200 for receiver, and then have to buy subwoofer, looks like total paid will be around $200.

I bought the Sony SA-W2500 100 Watt Subwoofer, should be good enough. Not sold directly by amazon, which kind of sucks. Was thinking about the Yamaha YST-SW216BL, but everybody seems to want over $20 for shipping. Not paying over $20 for shipping.

The Sony Subwoofer should work right? Cause receiver was made by sony too, so they should hopefully play nicely together. Speakers aren’t by Sony though.

Update
Probably should of bought subwoofer from sonystlye.com, might not get it till March 3rd, couldn’t buy directly from amazon.

Or about $70 after 2 day delivery. Bought it from mwave.com, thanks to uncle for telling me about it. Going to put it in my Icy Dock enclosure, pretty sure it supports 1 TB drives. Also bought a IDE and SATA to USB adapter from amazon.com. So I will be able to transfer data from current drive in enclosure to the new drive.

SAMSUNG 1TB HD103UI SATA 5400RPM 32MB (Bare drive) $60

Sabrent USB-DSC5 Serial ATA or IDE 2.5-/3.5-Inch to USB 2.0 Cable Converter Adapter with Power Supply $20

Update
Was cancelled because of a price error, got coupon, pretty sure coupon is tied to my account, so you can’t use it.

Thank you for placing an order with mwave.com. It is with our deepest apologies that we notify you of a pricing error that occurred on our web site over this past weekend. The price for the Samsung hard drive that is included in your recent order, was unfortunately advertised in error due to a vendor miscommunication.

Unfortunately all orders placed for this item, are regretfully being canceled, as our vendor is unable to fulfill the stock or price for this item. The item has been removed from our site, and any payments that have been processed by our automated payment services are being returned immediately. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. It truly was an honest mistake, and mwave is deeply concerned about the situation.

All customers who placed an order for this item, will receive a $20 OFF coupon for any future purchase with mwave, as a token of our appreciation of your understanding. The following coupon code will be activated for your account on file with us by the end of the day.

Tried ordering a different drive, applied coupon, drive said it had free shipping, google checkout had no free shipping option, so didn’t place order. Perhaps you can only get one discount, in that case, guess I won’t get a hard drive.

Update
Bought the drive using debit card and their checkout system. Bought the HITACHI 1TB 0A38016 SATA300 7200RPM 16MB hdt721010sla360(Bare drive) for $74.64 after coupon, and shipping is free.

Oadis has been gone since Friday, I think we last saw him on Friday. Oadis is a cat, incase you didn’t know. We thought he was gone for good. I heard the door bell ring, figured it was a package for my mom, so didn’t bother answering. Then I tried to take a nap, heard a cat meowing really loud, sounded like Oadis, so I got out of bed, not at back door, came running from across the street. The neighbor guy across the street said he hadn’t seen him either, I guess Oadis eats breakfast over there. I’m guessing he rang the door bell. Mom said not to let him out, as she is going to get him a microchip. He looks kind of skinny though.

Hmm is it Otis or Oadis? ahh well I don’t care.

Hmm I wonder if comcast, will increase the price of their internet. Hmm we might have to switch to dial up, if it goes over $50 a month. Comcast already has a hidden bandwidth limit, I suppose they might have different plans soon, with different bandwidth limits, be bad news for those who use peer to peer applications. Or rapidshare.

Hmm the uptime for my computer is over 1 day, and only 3.80 GB gigs of in bandwidth, and 4.95 gigs of out bandwidth. Oh yeah iStat menus tells me all that info.

That’s only for my computer though, not sure what the total bandwidth used is.

Ahh for this month so far, the router says 117819 MB, which is about 115 GB for incoming bandwidth. Outing bandwidth is 24352 MB, which is about 24 GB.

Looks like we would be paying a lot of money, if they start doing that.

In June the incoming bandwidth was 59946 MB, which is about 58 GB. Outgoing was 5435 MB, which is around 5 GB.

Got to love the custom DD-WRT firmware.

Comcast Spoiling for Fight With FCC

Looks like for a limited time you can get a Everex CloudBook for $299. One review says installing windows make it better, that is a false comment, installing windows on a linux laptop, defeats the purpose of the linux laptop. I probably wouldn’t keep the pre installed OS on it, I’d put a better linux distro on it. I won’t be buying one though, don’t need one, iPod touch does enough for my portable needs.

I can’t comment on how well its made or anything, I don’t know if its a good buy, the Asus EEE PC’S, I think have better reviews, and are more popular, so probably getting an Asus EEE PC, would be a better buy, though installing windows on any linux device, should void the warranty, because windows suck, face it, and get over your fucking windows.

Though the best buy would be an iPod touch, because it has a touch screen, and its only $299, and its made by apple, and the 2.0 firmware is buggy, and apple might have a price drop and new products soon, so you might feel ripped off.

Site might need a new theme now, with the nice new release of wordpress 2.6. The Press This bookmark is nice though. The new turbo feature isn’t available if you use safari, because gears doesn’t support safari.

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