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8 Dec 2009 inflexible Adobe
Wow, Adobe doesn’t make things convenient for you. I just called about their $199 offer for Photoshop CS4 for students, hoping that I could use it on my Mac or in Windows and perhaps be restricted to using only one at a time, but no. I can download it for Mac or Windows, [...]
17 Nov 2009 Sims 3 World Adventures arrived
Whoo, The Sims 3: World Adventures arrived today! I had preordered it on EA’s site but was dubious about it 1) arriving the day it was released (i.e. today) and 2) actually being left on my doorstep/mailbox versus being stashed in some package center for me to go and pick up with my [...]
8 Nov 2009 PC hard drive dying
I don’t know if I blogged about it, but I certainly complained on Twitter about my Macbook hard drive eating itself at the beginning of the semester. Well, just this morning my Windows hard drive in my PC started acting up. When I booted the computer, I got a “DISK READ ERROR INSERT [...]
21 Oct 2009 RAM installed
Whoo, got my 2GB of RAM yesterday and got it installed. Now to enjoy my 4GB RAM (3GB usable–thanks Windows 7 32-bit) to play The Sims 3.
Also, having your apartment building’s roof replaced sucks. I think they’re dancing up there.
12 Oct 2009 Grub Error 13 and 17 together
I just encountered a Grub Error 13 and a Grub Error 17 all for seemingly no reason. I fixed the problem, but thought I could save others undue headache.
The Setup
I have Ubuntu Linux installed on one hard drive which fdisk calls /dev/hda and Windows XP installed on a second hard drive called /dev/hdb. [...]
28 Jul 2009 AC Toolkit hack to fix grass
So while reading about Animal Crossing: City Folk earlier, I tried to find a way to restore some of my grass, which has been wearing away to brown dirt everywhere. Turns out there’s quite a stink over the “feature” Animal Tracks that Nintendo built into the game. The idea was that grass [...]
26 Jul 2009 Animal Crossing and Photoshop
I just finished a long bout of Animal Crossing: City Folk with Jon’s sister-in-law, who recently got the game. I was quite tickled to see that her town’s native fruit is oranges, whereas mine is cherries, so we were able to trade and now I have another fruit that’ll get me 500 Bells [...]
3 May 2009 Animal Crossing City Folk error
FYI for anyone who has a similar issue: I tried to play Animal Crossing City Folk on the Wii and after opening up my game, it suddenly gave the Wii error message “An error has occurred”, along with telling me to hit Eject, remove the disc, and turn the power off. I was able to [...]
7 Apr 2009 code reports Rake task
This will run various Ruby Gems for creating code quality reports, store them in public/ in your Rails app, and create public/reports.html with links to each report. You need Saikuro, Flog, Flay, Reek, and Roodi, since this Rake task uses them all.
Save this Rake task in your lib/tasks/ directory in your Rails app, and [...]