The game’s fun. I can see it getting repetitive fairly quickly though. Not sure about the longevity, but it’s something I had to play both for fun and for research reasons. It has a ton of features designed to make it easy on the player. I’d forgotten about the MMORPG crowd. This being my 4th… Continue reading WoW… same old crowd
Month: March 2005
this weekend
1. I read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. Very good. 2. I started playing World of Warcraft. Elbeno is now a level 10 priest. That's also good.
Another blow against Internet anonymity
Via Slashdot: A San Diego research team has developed a method for extracting information about a machine from the timestamps contained in the TCP packets it sends. In summary: Machines will include timestamps in each TCP packet as an option (RFC 1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance) which for most machines is negotiated by default.… Continue reading Another blow against Internet anonymity
I was almost getting withdrawal symptoms…
…it’s been so long since I recompiled the kernel. After going swiftly through 2.6.0 to 2.6.9, I stuck with 2.6.9 for quite a while. For some reason my firewire storage support wasn’t working properly in 2.6.9 (even though my USB storage did). So I just compiled 2.6.10, and now it works. Easy. Sometimes, even with… Continue reading I was almost getting withdrawal symptoms…
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Way to go, 17 computer science professors!
Girl Scout Cookies
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season again and I am chomping my way through the thin mints. Also looking forward to those Creme Eggs I picked up!